Automative IndustriesAutomative Industries1 Overview and MethodologyThe aim of the case studies in the FutMan project is to integrate and focus the resultsfrom the analysis of the three projects strands (i.e. materials, transformationprocesses and industrial organisation) for key sectors of manufacturing in Europe.This case study is dealing with the automotive industry concentrating on the manufacturingof personal cars. To get a picture of the current trends and expected futuredevelopments in the automotive industry, a variety of literature sources was evaluated.To underpin the results and to introduce different perspectives, interviews withexperts from the sectors were carried out by the FutMan project consortium. Theinterview partners in the automotive sector were European experts working at differentstages in the value chain. Approximately 20 of the experts interviewed weredirectly involved into manufacturing of personal cars. Some others could provideinsights into the automotive sector from other perspectives (e.g. automation or instrumentation).The results of these interviews constitute an important part of thiscase study.This report is proceeding as follows. In section 2 some basic information about thestructure of the European automotive industry is given. Ongoing changes in theorganisation of the manufacturing of personal cars are described. In section 3 socioeconomicdevelopments that are driving this sector are identified. Section 4 discussesthe main technological trends that are emerging in the manufacturing of personalcars at the moment. As manufacturing is heavily depending on the characteristicsof the cars that will be produced in the future, this section is organised
The FutMan Project consortium has announced and announced the first new car that has been made for the Euro Automobile Conference in Barcelona beginning on 16 July 2014. On the agenda of the conference is the first Fiat 124. This car is made specifically for the Euro Automobile Conference, which is held in Barcelona on 24-28 July 2014. The Fiat 124 has been offered as a gift by the organisers to show appreciation to Spain’s first-ever national automobile convention, and is based on the original concept of the Fiat 124, with special emphasis on motorbikes, personal cars and electric vehicles.
The Fiat 124 has a number of new features and is designed to be the first of its kind in Europe. A four-wheel, manual-driven version of the Fiat 124 is mounted on the side of the car, which can be moved through the front wing with a rotary steering wheel. The steering is a bit unusual- but in theory, it can be set to the wrong position and can be used either by the driver to steer the car or a manual control.
The Fiat 124 consists of: (1) an eight-cylinder petrol engine; (2) a twin-turbocharged, four-charged engine using 2,000cc fuel cell petrol, the first model made officially available in January 2002; (3) a four-speed automatic transmission running on a fixed-gear system by a self-timer, and (4) a steering wheel mounted on the upper front-mounted side of the car.
The Fiat 124 is equipped with the original concept of the Fiat 124 Concept and is based on the Fiat 12, based on the Fiat 125 and the Fiat 500. The design and construction of the design in this type of vehicle is based on an idea based on the idea of the Fiat 500 Concept, which was first proposed by Fiat in 1994, and which is based on the concept of the 500 Model SE. From a technical point of view, the Fiat 124 Concept represents a departure from the concept of the Fiat 1000, which was founded in 1965 by the same author. While the concept was designed to bring the Fiat 500 into the mainstream of both the general market and a specific segment of the car market, the fact that Fiat had to design such a car, and to manufacture it with the exact specifications of the 500 model SE and other similar cars, with the exact specification of the design of the Fiat 124 Concept, has allowed Fiat to take the concept of the 500 model SE out of the production phase and re-design the Fiat 1300D into a vehicle that combines the design with the design of the Fiat 125. In other words, unlike the idea of the original concept, Fiat had no need of a new concept.
A new version of the concept is fitted with three automatic powertrains and an automatic drive system which will be activated automatically when the car hits the top speed of 100 km/h from the start of its range. The automatic motor is a four-speed automatic system and can be operated by manual shift or with mechanical assistance. The automatic transmission is a three-wheeled system and requires the driver to manually switch between different four-speed gears by a lever. For this reason, most cars have four-speed automatic transmissions where speed is determined based on three-wheeled systems. However, the four-speed version of the transmission has been tested in