#Gigacasting

[ashimbisresearch]

Asia-Pacific Automotive Gigacasting Market | BIS Research

According to BIS Research, the Asia-Pacific automotive gigacasting market was valued at $43.1 million in 2023, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 49.11% and reach $2,341.8 million by 2033 during the forecast period of 2023-2033.

[mohitbisresearch]

The automotive gigacasting market is experiencing significant growth and is anticipated to expand at a faster pace in the forecast period. Manufacturers of automotive gigacasting machines are making substantial investments in research and development to advance the technology.

Additionally, participants within the automotive gigacasting ecosystem are actively pursuing partnerships and collaborations with end-user industry players.

As the automotive industry continues to grow in both developed and developing economies, the demand for automotive gigacasting solutions is expected to increase significantly in the forecast period.

[adorable-empires]

My current understanding of the HEM (Hermitcraft/Empires Multiverse) Lore is (ignoring Ten's "gigacast", which I didn't really like):

1. Empires 1 took place on a planet

2. Mythical J. Sausage escaped the end of the season after Pearl died. He goes mad trying to warp reality into bringing her back, in the process presumably creating innumerable aberrant timelines

3. Santa Perla, a god who is presumably Pearl after she died, brings J. Sausage from his universe to the "council of bubbles" (or as he calls it, the "spirit realm"), and then to a realm I think she calls "the afterlife", but which I'll call "Heaven" for simplicity.

4. Santa Perla takes J. Sausage from Heaven to the AfterlifeSMP, where there are people who appear similar to the inhabitants of Empires Season One. Reason in-lore unknown. Presumed pocket universe.

5. AfterlifeSMP ends, and everyone (including J. Sausage) is dead, except Olli, who rises up to Heaven and is transported to yet another world by Santa Perla, which turns out to be the same world as Empires Season One, although just under 1,000 years ago.

5. Olli beats the enderdragon and sits between the End and Spawn in the "credits screen" for what can presumed to be... A very long time - as when he comes to the the overworld, the Empires crew (who he doesn't appear to recognise from AfterlifeSMP, to my knowledge) have already built a lot of their empires.

6. The Hermitcraft seasons are planets travelled between through via "the Hermitiseus" (governed by Renbob and the Goat-man). It suffers some kind of malfunction or can't find a planet or something and ends up creating "the Hermatrix" for Season Eight, before setting down the hermits onto their new planet in Season Nine (so there's only 8 hermit planets). I know Ren made some whole Gigaverse thing where he wants all Minecraft worlds to be in one universe by a special classification system, but I don't like that so It Isn't Canon.

[daisycraft]

comes out of the deep lore gigacast covered in blood. i love worldbuilding

[zuphyote]

when i hit level 26 i picked up a perk that adds 1 point to my mana pool every time a lesbian reblogs one of posts. thanks to all of you i can now gigacast my fireball with two metamagic modifiers.

[wimpydave]

Tesla Gives Up on Massive Gigacasting; Car Recalls Nearly Hit Record - A...

[planetofsnarfs]

Yet another Tesla executive has left the company, adding to a growing list of senior staff who have parted ways.

And this time it was the woman in charge of human resources, Allie Arebalo, who reported directly to CEO Elon Musk and was let go this week, according to Bloomberg's sources.

The news comes after Musk slammed the automaker with two rounds of mass layoffs in a matter of a single month, reportedly affecting up to 20 percent of Tesla's global headcount.

Arebalo's departure is only the latest in a growing number of senior executives who have left the ailing company, including the VP of powertrain and energy engineering Drew Baglino, head of public policy Rohan Patel, and VP of investor relations Martin Viecha.

Earlier this week, senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci was let go as well, alongside her 500-person-strong team. Musk hasn't wasted any time doubling down on that decision, pulling out of several Supercharger station leases.

That's despite reportedly sucking up more than $17 million in federal grants for its Supercharger network.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Tesla had also backed away from developing a next-generation "gigacasting" process, its pioneering manufacturing process, suggesting the company's also greatly scaling back its ambitions when it comes to making cars.

[hackernewsrobot]

Tesla retreats from one-piece "gigacasting" manufacturing process

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-retreats-next-generation-gigacasting-manufacturing-process-2024-05-01/

[otoseyir]

Nissan to boost output at underused Ariya EV factory after rocky start

Nissan wants to boost capacity utilization at its new Intelligent Factory for producing electric vehicles after a painfully slow ramp-up of the Ariya electric crossover. The Japanese carmaker is considering a new model and gigacasting.

[ashimbisresearch]

Global Automotive Gigacasting Market | BIS Research

The Global Automotive Gigacasting Market was valued at $71.6 million in 2023, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 47.88% and reach $3,579.6 million by 2033 during the forecast period of 2023-2033.

[mohitbisresearch]

The automotive gigacasting market was valued at $71.6 million in 2023, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 47.88% and reach $3,579.6 million by 2033. The automotive gigacasting market is poised for significant growth due to the demand for lighter yet stronger components, advancements in electric and hybrid vehicles, and pursuit of more efficient manufacturing processes within the automotive industry.

[evlelo]

GM has just bought Tesla's sand casting company, TEI, which was one of four companies used by Tesla to cut manufacturing costs. Tesla started working with TEI in 2017 and it looks like GM paid around $80-100 million for the company, which is considered one of the best sand-casting experts in the world.

[commercialawarenesstoday]

Exclusive: GM snatches key Tesla gigacasting supplier

 If you can't beat them, buy them.

For years, a little-known company called Tooling & Equipment International (TEI) has helped Tesla (TSLA.O) push back the frontiers of "gigacasting", the process it pioneered to cast large body parts for cars in one piece to save time and money.

Until 2023, that is. TEI is now part of General Motors (GM.N) after agreeing a deal that may have flown under the radar but is a key part of the U.S. automaker's strategy to make up ground on Tesla, four people familiar with the transaction said.

By snapping up a specialist in sand casting techniques that accelerated the development of Tesla's gigacasting molds and allowed it to cast more complex components, GM has jump-started its own push to make cars more cheaply and efficiently at a time when Tesla is racing to roll out a $25,000 EV, the people said.

With TEI gone, Tesla is leaning more heavily on three other casting specialists it has used in Britain, Germany and Japan to develop the huge molds needed for the millions of cheaper EVs it plans to make in the coming decade, the four people said.

At the same time, Tesla is scrambling to find another sand casting specialist to fill the role TEI performed, or even develop such crucial expertise in-house to cut its reliance on outside suppliers, the people said.

"General Motors acquired Tooling & Equipment International (TEI) to bolster its portfolio of innovations and secure access to unique casting technology," GM said in a statement to Reuters in response to questions for this story.

Tesla and TEI President Oliver Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.

Like GM, a host of automakers from Ford F.N to Hyundai (005380.KS) to Toyota (7203.T) are trying to ape Tesla's gigacasting know-how to match its design and manufacturing efficiency and avoid being undercut on the showroom floor.

Gigacasting is core to Tesla's "unboxed" manufacturing strategy unveiled by Chief Executive Elon Musk in March, which he hopes will slash the assembly costs of the next generation of cars by half.

The strategy hinges on producing the structural platform and subframes of a car in one piece using gigacasting and then snapping it together at the end with the other parts of the vehicle being made in parallel.

That gigacasting know-how, which uses casts made out of industrial sand with 3D printing, has been made possible in part by TEI along with the three other suppliers Tesla has been using.

CELESTIQ CASTINGS

Reuters has reported that the work of these four firms has been a key reason why Tesla can now develop a car from the ground up in 18 to 24 months, and do so economically, while most rivals can currently take anywhere from three to four years.

The specialists use sand casting in a process called rapid prototyping to help validate Tesla's designs and engineering specifications for its giant molds quickly and cheaply.

According to all four sources, TEI began helping Tesla around 2017 to develop the Model Y and is considered in the industry to be one of the world's top sand casting specialists.

Since then, TEI has been involved in gigacasting mold prototyping for Tesla's Model 3, Cybertruck and its heavy-duty Semi truck, according to two of the sources.

When TEI's Johnson put the company up for sale last year, GM would have had a good idea about what gigacasting know-how it might get its hands on.

GM's realization, the four sources said, certainly came when it conducted due diligence and was probably well before that as it had turned to TEI around 2021 to test and produce some underbody castings for its luxury $340,000 Cadillac Celestiq EV, which is due to hit showrooms next year.

As part of that program, GM signed a guaranteed, long-term contact and TEI invested in a new dedicated production line for the Celestiq at its base in Livonia, a 25-minute drive from GM's Detroit headquarters, one of the sources said.

"Bringing TEI into the GM enterprise builds on decades of the company's own casting experience and provides a competitive advantage with strategic castings for future low volume products like the Cadillac Celestiq," GM said in its statement.

TEI won the 2023 Casting of the Year award from the American Foundry Society for those Celestiq castings.

It formally became part of GM's Global Manufacturing division, which oversees all of GM's automobile and parts manufacturing operations, on July 1, according to one of the sources with direct knowledge.

"TEI will remain its own business entity with GM as its parent company," GM said.

Two of the sources with direct knowledge said GM paid less than $100 million for TEI, with one of them estimating it paid $80 million at the most. Reuters was unable to determine whether Tesla was one of the several companies that bid for TEI.

FRONT ROW SEAT

While Tesla has leapt ahead of rivals when it comes to manufacturing techniques, and appears to be putting more distance between it and the rest of the auto industry, the TEI deal has given GM a front row view of how Tesla honed its gigacasting expertise.

TEI and others make test molds out of industrial sand. Using a digital design file, 3D printers known as binder jets build a sand mold that can cast molten alloys.

Among key benefits of this method are that a sand mold can be printed quickly, and then reprinted multiple times at a minimal cost to tweak and adjust mold designs.

TEI and the three other specialists have been particularly important for Tesla in coming up with new alloys to be used in sand casts, as well as techniques for heat-treating the large metal body parts once they've been molded to improve their quality, Reuters has reported.

James Womack, a former research director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes Musk's new manufacturing initiatives have come as a shock to the legacy auto industry "shaking up everyone else".

"It even woke up Toyota - the industry's current very best in manufacturing - to embrace gigacasting and other innovations from Tesla," said Womack, co-author of "The Machine That Changed The World", the 1990 book about Toyota's lean production system.

Womack believes the competition to achieve even greater efficiency is far from over.

"Gigacasting and unboxed are worthy of experiments, but cutting edge endeavors almost always take more time than initially projected to reach maturity and some experiments will fail," said Womack.

[tartbedo]

gigacast ep 1 was so fucking cool i love when people try to like expand on the minecraft multiverse

[wimpydave]

World's 1st Cybertruck Teardown - Steer-by-Wire, 48V, Battery & Gigacast...