image: LaserEMobility Section of AITeM – Italian Association of Manufacturing invites you to join the upcoming Workshop on March 13 – 14, 2023, in Milano. Following the success of the 2022 edition, the LaserEMobility Workshop 2023 continues to be a place of discussion for an international audience from industry and academia working on laser-based processing in electric vehicle manufacturing. view more
Credit: By Ali Gökhan Demir from Politecnico di Milano
The ever growing demand in e-vehicles in the world and in Europe will result in a significant socio-economical change. The electrification changes the material types, usage, and manufacturing along with the vehicle design. The contemporary e-drives are being used in a variety of vehicles such as automobiles, drones, trains, airplanes, and ships. These vehicles will require lower weight, longer drive range, and faster recharging as the numbers of vehicles in use increase.
Compared to combustion engine vehicles in an e-vehicle typically fewer number of components will be placed with an increase of demand in flexible welding, heat treatment, cutting, trimming, and texturing applications. Concerning the automotive field, the whole plants will need to adapt to the reduction of components and the necessity to weld more parts. The need for rapid changes in the vehicle models and the variety in the components will be resolved through highly digitalized, flexible, adaptable and reliable manufacturing processes. From this point of view laser based manufacturing is the essential solution, placing this family of processes as the conventional method in e-vehicle manufacturing.
Today lasers are already used in a variety of applications such as hairpin stripping and welding, cutting and texturing of Li-ion electrodes, welding of battery busbars, and cutting of composite materials. The rapid reduction of the costs of the laser sources, optics, and components in the last decade facilitated the adoption of lasers e-vehicle manufacturing. Although the laser technology has shown to have reached the required maturity the system developers and the end-users still need to catch up with the pace of the growing demand in e-vehicle manufacturing.
LaserEMobility Workshop 2023 will be held in March 13 – 14, 2023, in Milano. Following the success of the 2022 edition, the LaserEMobility Workshop 2023 aims to be a place of discussion for an international audience from industry and academia working on laser-based processing in electric vehicle manufacturing. Politecnico di Milano will host the in-person two-day event expecting participants from research, laser component manufacturing, system integration, and application communities. In addition to technical presentations targeting an international audience, the latest technological trends will be presented in an exhibition zone. A guided laboratory tour will give hands-on insights into academic laser research.
The Workshop is chaired by the three academic members of the LaserEMobility Section of AITEM – Italian Association of Manufacturing, Prof. Ali Gökhan Demir from Politecnico di Milano, Prof. Alessandro Fortunato from Università di Bologna, and Prof. Michael F. Zäh from Technical University of Munich.
Prof. Demir, who is the scientific coordinator of LaserEMobility Section at AITEM and also the Youth Editor of the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, highlighted that in its second year Workshop is growing with an international community beyond the boundaries of Europe, where the Section was founded in 2021. “The Workshop will cover applications concerning the battery systems and e-drives as they are in the core of the e-vehicles. This year’s presentation will also explore a wider range of topics such as body-in-white, light-weight design, and new materials for energy storage.”
The Workshop will also include a roundtable discussion with invited speakers from the industry discussing the future of electrification, the new vehicles, and energy storage devices along with sustainability and logistics issues.
For more information please visit www.aitem.org/laseremobility-workshop/
About IJEM:
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IF: 10.036) is a new multidisciplinary, double-anonymous peer-reviewed and diamond open-access without article processing charge journal uniquely covering the areas related to extreme manufacturing. The journal is devoted to publishing original articles and reviews of the highest quality and impact in the areas related to extreme manufacturing, ranging from fundamentals to process, measurement and systems, as well as materials, structures and devices with extreme functionalities.
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