Car Body Engineering Insight @ Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover’s Defender – Meeting challenges with material, automation and sustainability

An icon reinvents itself, reimagined for the 21st century: peppered with innovative technologies, visually completely new – and yet clearly recognizable as a Defender. Insight@Jaguar Land Rover 2023 at Nitra, Slovakia, offers you the opportunity to take a closer look at the highlights of the car body and how production meets the current requirements for sustainability, automation and flexibility.

With an investment volume of 1.4 billion euros, the Jaguar Land Rover plant in Nitra marks the latest step in the company’s global expansion strategy. The new 300,000 m² plant with an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles occupies a leading position in the use of aluminium in manufacturing and technical design in Slovakia. The plant contributes to the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering high-tech lightweight vehicles to its customers.

The plant is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and a conveyor system, which offers 30 percent faster transfer times than conventional systems. In addition, it has a highly automated painting process to ensure the highest quality while minimizing environmental impact.

With a view to the future, the factory has been designed flexibly and is prepared for the use of intelligent, networked production technologies such as visualization in manufacturing. The use of real-time data enables improved process efficiency, delivery and quality.

Discuss current developments and projects with experts from Jaguar Land Rover and other OEM.

A special highlight of the conference was the guided tour, which offered participants insights into the production of the Defender.

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Our conference highlights:

Insightful Technical Presentations

Our line up of OEM and industry experts shared their knowledge and vision, shedding light on the latest advancements and emerging trends

Outstanding Networking Opportunities

Automotive engineers, industry pioneers, and decision-makers from leading automotive companies and suppliers worldwide got connected

Accompanying Exhibition

Access to cutting-edge products and services that are relevant for car body engineering was offered

Guided Tour(s)

The production of JLR’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility as well as the plant of Gestamp opened its doors

It was a great conference!

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

9.00h	Welcome and conference introduction	Andrea Huber, Automotive Circle, DE
9.15h	Welcome and introduction to JLR plant Nitra	Guillermo Mancholas, Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia S.r.o., SK
9.30h	Technical presentation on BIW Nitra & Defender product	Rob Scott, Jaguar Land Rover, GB; Victor Moreno, Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia S.r.o., SK
10.00h	Insights into the Vehicle Architecture of the Modular Vehicle Concept U-Shift	Manuel Osebek, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Vehicle Concepts, DE
10.30h	Modern art of die and assembly manufacturing – combined with highly automated production systems	Sebastian Stein, Porsche AG, DE; Christian Frenzel, Porsche Werkzeugbau, DE
11.00h	Coffee & Contacts
11.30h	Aluminium in Car-Bodies – Less is more	Mark White, Alumobility, US
12.00h	Sustainable Aluminum Sheet solutions for Automotive Applications	Jörg Simon, Novelis Switzerland SA, CH
12.30h	Light weighting in BEV – Ecology and Economy	Barnaby Struthers, Norsk Hydro, UK
13.00h	Smart Home for Deep Drawing Tools	Otto Lampert, iLARIZ GmbH, DE
13.30h	Lunch
14.45h	Gestamp, from local to global	Mikel Azkargorta, Gestamp, ES
15.15h	Integrating ESG in the automotive value chain	Ernesto Barceló, Gestamp, ES
15.45h	GUIDED TOUR AT GESTAMP including Bus Transfers
17.30h	End of conference day 1
19.00h	Networking Dinner