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By Henry Cialone President & CEO, EWI The existence of a manufacturing workforce shortage is old news. I wrote about it in a December 2019 blog, and it wasn't new news even then! But what we're hearing now from the manufacturing community echoes what we're all hearing, reading, and seeing more broadly — the pandemic has...

Shearing the part edges of laser-welded blanks (LWBs) made of steel sheet metal is a challenging and precise process. Recently, EWI conducted studies applying high-speed shearing in the fabrication of steel LWBs with promising results. This work is described in Application of High-speed Shearing for Fabricating Laser-welded Blanks with AHSS and GEN3 Steel, by EWI...

A standard electric vehicle (EV) automotive battery can be decomposed into cell level, module level, and pack level. A cell mainly includes the anodes and cathodes, a module includes multiple cells, and a pack includes multiple modules. The three most common metal-to-metal joints in a lithium-ion battery pack are foil-to-tab, tab-to-tab, and tab-to-bus. All three...