月: 2024年3月

CVE attended the 75th International Institute of Welding (IIW) Annual Assembly and Conference, 17th-22nd July 2022, in Tokyo, Japan.

The Japan Institute of Welding, The Japan Welding Society, and The Japan Welding Engineering Society hosted the event, with support from the Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The theme was innovative welding and joining technologies to achieve carbon neutrality and promote sustainable development.

The conference covered a range of other topics, including:

• Additive manufacturing technology and efficient engineering
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation (DX)
• Hydrogen (including fuel ammonia), renewable and nuclear energy, electrification
• New materials
• Future technologies
• Other fundamentals

CVE colleagues Chris Punshon, Head of New Energy Applications, Alex O’Farrell, Development Engineering Manager, and Max Nentwich, Head Laser Development Engineer, presented papers at the conference, with topics spanning local vacuum power beam welding, copper welding for electric vehicles, and laser welding in a vacuum.

The details of the papers are as follows:

• Doc.IV-1507-2022 Local Vacuum Electron Beam and Laser Solutions in New Energy Applications – New Developments and Regulatory Position, Chris Punshon, et al.
• Doc.IV-1506-2022 Removing The Bottleneck In Welding Of Electrical Conductors for Electric Vehicles, Alex O’Farrell, et al.
• Doc.IV-1508-2022 Interaction of Protective Gas with Process Emissions in Vacuum Laser Welding, Max Nentwich, et al.

Chris is the UK delegate for IIW Commission IV (Power Beam Processes) and acted as a session chair for Commission IV. He also presented on local vacuum electron beam welding.

His paper was titled the Local Vacuum Electron Beam and Laser Solutions in New Energy Applications – New Developments and Regulatory Position.

This follows a series of development projects using CVE’s local vacuum technology, Ebflow, including welding of 200mm thick steel, pressure vessel manufacture, pilot at Dogger Bank wind farm, and wind tower manufacturing.

Max Nentwich, working as part of a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) between Cambridge Vacuum Engineering and Cranfield University, presented a paper on the Interaction of Protective Gas with Process Emissions in Vacuum Laser Welding.

Alex’s paper, titled Removing the Bottleneck in Welding of Electrical Conductors for Electric Vehicles, focused on how the industry can increase the rate of joining electrically conducting components and the criticality of this to improving electric vehicle manufacturing.

The CVE team then attended the adjacently-running Japan International Welding Show at Tokyo International Exhibition Centre.

If you are interested in the above topics, please get in touch by emailing sales@camvaceng.com.

CVE are exhibiting at Battery Show North America, in Novi, Michigan, 13-15 September 2022.

You can find us at stand 2345.

CVE colleagues Tony Slater, Technical Sales Manager, Nick Edge, Consultant, and Ellen Cormack, Marketing Manager, would like to talk to visitors about manufacturing electric vehicle (EV) powertrain components, including batteries, motor stators and hairpins, inverters, and shunt resistors.

CVE is delighted to announce that our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) associate, Max Nentwich, is a finalist in the Innovate UK KTP Awards 2022.

KTPs, organised by Innovate UK KTN, connect businesses with academia to deliver innovation projects led by graduates.

The projects focus on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and the programme accelerates these ambitious ideas into real-world, commercial solutions. It does this through connecting businesses with new partners, ideas, or academia.

The KTP Awards celebrate the most creative, effective, and interesting people and projects out of around 800 KTPs that are active right now.

Max is a finalist for the Future Leader Award. This award is for associates who have shown exceptional skills, above and beyond the normal expectations of a KTP Associate, in driving and delivering innovation strategy, demonstrating great teamwork, and outstanding leadership potential.

Max’s work with CVE in includes an innovative laser in vacuum window protection solution and is in partnership with Cranfield University.

There are an additional six awards available:

• Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership
• Technical Excellence Award
• The Changing the World Award
• Business Impact and Transformation
• KTP Academic of the Year Award
• Best Knowledge Base KTP Support Team Award

The ceremony will take place on Wednesday 12th October, in-person and online. You can register your attendance via Innovate UK’s website.