Automotive (Page 2)

If you are attending CAR MBS in Traverse City, Michigan, August 5-8, don't miss EWI's panel session, Beyond Efficiency: Leveraging Sustainability for Competitive Advantage in the Automotive Industry, at 11:15 am on Tuesday, August 6th. This special session, hosted by EWI Senior Business Development Director Doug Myers, will examine ways that companies can use sustainability...

Welding thick parts efficiently and effectively is a huge challenge in heavy industry. The extra steps that manufacturers need to take to ensure quality can be costly and time-consuming – not to mention the possibility of introducing other problems like distortion and waste. EWI has developed and tested several new methods that are now being...

Ultrasonic wire bonding (UWB), today’s preferred method for joining wires to battery packs in electric vehicles, requires very high surface cleanliness to assure successful bonds. Decontaminating battery terminals, however, can be a very difficult and time-consuming task. EWI has recently completed a study using laser cleaning technology on batteries prior to UWB of aluminum wire...