Technology Innovation

As the electric vehicle industry continues to grow, the pressure on automotive suppliers and OEMs to deliver leak-free battery enclosures — an expensive and critical component — grows as well. Not reflected in the importance of these enclosures is the effectiveness of traditional leak detections methods. Current techniques may be expensive, difficult to implement, or...

In the past several years, EWI has successfully developed tele-manufacturing capabilities to remotely operate several fabrication processes. Our latest tele-task transformation is arc gouging. In a project supported by the Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), EWI set out to automate specific manual foundry processes known for being difficult, dirty, and/or dangerous. Carbon arc gouging...

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...