Lightweight TechTalks by AZL
Digital platform for technology insights and networking
Inspired by the great response to the interactive workgroups, AZL set up the compact and digital format “Lightweight TechTalk“ for technology and market insights and for networking in the field of lightweight production.
Inspiring industry presentations open up different perspectives on lightweight business and technologies. Participants can identify relevant contacts and get in touch directly via participant profiles and the personal chat.
Participation is free of charge and open to all companies, even beyond the AZL partner network.
Previous Lightweight TechTalks
This Lightweight TechTalk focused on electric vehicle battery casings and how different materials can play a role in future models. Next to today’s aluminium and steel solutions, there was attention to potentials that composite materials can bring.
Number of Participations: 170
Speaker:
- Dr. Florian Meyer | Audi AG | The Future of Electric Vehicle Battery Casings
- Warden Schijve | AZL Aachen GmbH | Use of Composites in Multi-material Battery Casings
- Peter Ooms | Lorenz Kunststofftechnik GmbH | E-mobility – Battery Casing & E-motors Made out of Thermoset
- Philipp Fröhlig | AZL Aachen GmbH | Introduction of Soon Starting Battery Casing Project Initiatives
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This Lightweight TechTalk focused on Automated Tape Laying and Rapid Tow Shearing in aerospace applications. The Technologies offer high potential to improve the way to design and manufacture with composite materials.
Number of Participations: 114
Speaker:
- Dr. Simon Britten | Laserline GmbH | Laser-based Thermoplastic Tape Placement for High Productivity in Aviation
- Arnt Offringa | GKN Fokker | Automated Tape Laying and Fiber Placement of Thermoplastics in Aerospace
- Dominic Bloom | iCOMAT Limited | Rapid Tow Shearing: The New State of the Art in Fibre Steering
- Peter Boer | Dutch Thermoplastic Composites | Automated Tape Laying for Tailored Thermoplastic Composite Products
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Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group connects technology insights and professionals on the topic Thermoset and Thermoplastic Tape Placement in Aerospace.
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This Lightweight TechTalk focused on sustainability strategies and approaches to sustainability analysis over the production and life cycle of the car. Besides the requirements and strategies from an OEM’s point of view, pragmatic approaches to the analysis of eco-impact factors were presented and discussed.
Number of Participations: 110
Speaker:
- Dr. Wulf-Peter Schmidt | Ford-Werke GmbH | Ford Carbon Neutrality Strategy and Implications for the Automotive Value Chain
- Markus Breiing | Conbility GmbH | Pragmatic and Integrated Carbon Footprint and Cost Evaluation
- Alexander Busse | fka GmbH | Sustainability as a Game-changer in the Automotive Value Chain – Challenges for Suppliers and their Product Strategy
- Dr. Claus Lüdtke | Zenith GmbH | Success through Networking – the Example of the FOresIght Innovation Network
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Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group connects technology insights and professionals on insights and solutions on sustainability strategies and approaches to sustainability analysis over the production and life cycle of the car.
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In this upcoming Lightweight TechTalk design and simulation experts will share their experiences and insights on lightweight design enabling design for profitability.
Speaker:
- Warden Schijve | AZL | Best Practices in Lightweight Design with Thermoplastic Composites
- Sebastiaan Haanappel | Aniform | Composite Forming Simulations Enable Thoughtful Process & Product Development
- Maiko Ersch | Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University | Uncovering Lightweight Potential Through Consistent Topology Optimization and Deeply Integrated Hybrid Design in Structural Components
- Ferrie van Hattum | ThermoPlastic Composites Application Center | Component Redesign using UD Tapes
Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group connects technology insights and professionals from various completed and running activities on evaluating the potential and challenges for integrating thermoplastic tapes into injection molding.
In this Lightweight TechTalk 4 speakers gave insights and solutions for using composites sustainably and their recycling options and processes.
Number of Participations: 114
Speaker:
- Jaap van der Woude | Chairman EuCIA WG Sustainability | Cradle to Gate LCA for Composites Parts ECO CALCULATOR LCA Tool for the Composites Industry
- Dr. rer.nat. Asta Partanen | nova Institut GmbH | Tools and Methods for Comparing the Sustainability of Renewable Composite Materials
- Martin Rieger | AZL | Research Project “Bio FML”: Mass Production of Sustainable Fibre Metal Laminates
- Yusuf Can Arslan | Sonnenwagen Aachen e.V. | Unlimited Range: Lightweight meets with Solar Energy
- Markus Breiing | Conbility GmbH| Economic and Ecological Evaluation of Production Scenarios to Realize a Sustainable Production
- Philipp Fröhlig | AZL | Starting AZL Study: Identifying Potentials for Bio based Composites
Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group connects technology insights and professionals from various completed and running activities on evaluating the potential and challenges for integrating thermoplastic tapes into injection molding.
In this Lightweight TechTalk material and system experts presented their technological solutions for bringing thermoplastic tapes in injection molded parts. This talk edition is following up on a completed study with 20 involved companies evaluating the potential and challenges of saving costs through the use of UD tape inserts tapes in injection molding.
Number of Participations: 120
Speaker:
- Jeff Sloan | Composites World | News radar
- René Laschak | Mitsui Chemicals Europe GmbH | Performance Improvement of Injection Molded Parts by the Use of Carbon Fiber UD Tapes
- Sem Sals | Polyscope Polymers| Hybrid Material Combinations in Composites
- Arne Büttner | AFPT GmbH| Automated Production of Composite Inlays
- Alexander Peitz | AZL | Ultra Fast Consolidator Individualized, Large Series Thermoplastic Tape Placement
- Coen Hartjes | TPRC | Overmolding of C/ PAEK Composites
- Harold Kutschera | simcon kunststofftechnische Software GmbH | Simulation Aspects of UD Tapes in the Injection Molding
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Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group connects technology insights and professionals from various completed and running activities on evaluating the potential and challenges for integrating thermoplastic tapes into injection molding.
In this Lightweight TechTalk, the speakers from the composites industry provided a detailed overview of additive manufacturing production technologies in combination with composite production comprising insights into innovative applications and latest manufacturing systems.
Number of Participations: 175
Speaker:
- Jeff Sloan | Composites World | News radar on composites and additive manufacturing
- David Hauber | Trelleborg | Additive Manufacturing with carbon fiber composites
- Riley Reese | ARRIS Composites | Convergence of composites and high volume manufacturing, delivering next gen consumer and vehicle structures
- Cole Nielsen | Orbital Composites | Mars and the self-replicating machines
- Kamran Samaie | Conbility | New table based machine system for additive tape placement with laser assisted in situ consolidation
Please feel free to also use the created LinkedIn group as a forum for learning, information exchange and establishing professional connections. This group is community for networking and exchanging technical solutions which combine the high-performance characteristics of composites with the freedom of design achieved through additive manufacturing.
In this TechTalk, three inspiring presentations opened up different perspectives on product development and potential assessment of multi-material lightweight components.
Number of Participations: 105
Speaker:
- Warden Schijve | Sabic | Design with thermoplastic composites from materialproducer‘s perspective
- Jonathan Spree | Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering of RWTH Aachen University | Modell-based system engineering
- André Wilkes | Rafinex | Design from material producer‘s perspective
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