DETROIT—Automotive OEMs sold 17.47 million new vehicles (both imports and domestics) in 2015, breaking the mark of 17.41 million vehicles in 2000.

Peel-and-stick labels, heat-shrink tubing and plastic carriers are the most reliable ways to identify wires in harnesses and electrical panels.

Carbon nanotube wiring is light, strong and efficient in transmitting electrical current.

At one high-tech assembly plant, workstations adjust themselves to workers and products know which stations they need to move to next.

At Hitachi Metals Automotive Components USA LLC (HMAC), suspensions, exhaust manifolds and other components are assembled every day for all of the world’s leading automakers.

To be a global leader in the automotive parts market, a company must be able to meet the needs of customers on all seven continents.

For decades, motorists have depended on side view and rearview mirrors when changing lanes or backing up. But, the good old glass mirror is slowly being replaced by cameras, sensors and display screens.

Not many people can be said to have truly shaped the course of global manufacturing. They include Henry Ford, W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno. We lost another last month.

LANSING, MI—General Motors plans to spend $1 billion in Michigan over the next 15 years while reaching a pact with the Snyder administration to cap the value of state business tax credits it receives. GM is the last of the Detroit 3 automakers to negotiate a limit on the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, or MEGA, credits first awarded in 2009 during former Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s administration.

NAMPA, ID—Heartland Recreational Vehicles is looking to hire more than 120 employees for its new assembly plant here. Production is expected to begin in March, with eight to 10 units being built per day.