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In the V Forum International of the celebrated car by the specialist in the mechanised of Tübingen

Walter promotes the car industry

Editorial Interempresas13/02/2013

‘How many trucks will produce en el futuro and which are the challenges that this means for the sector of the mechanised'. This was the subject of the fifth fórum of the car of Walter in Tübingen. More than 100 participants accepted the invitation of the manufacturer of tools of precision to go to Tübingen. Participants of high level, representing to the manufacturers, providers and the scientific community, informed of the last events in the sector of the industry of the car and provided a vision of the mobility of the morning.

The industry of the car confronts to big challenges: The motors are increasingly small and the aim of the turbocompressesors is to guarantee the power to which have accustomed us. At the same time, like the optimisation of the engine of combustion, the departments of I + D for all the manufacturers are preparing the launching of the electrical trucks in the market. The new difficult materials of cut require processes of efficient production and tools of high performance. Increase of the strict politics in how much to the demand of energetic efficiency, no only for the car, but also in the process of production.

“The Group Walter generates more than a fourth door of his total sales in the sector of the car”, affirmed Mirko Merlo, president of the Group Walter. “Therefore it is very important for us appreciate the complex demands of this industry. This forum helps us to understand what our customers need. Besides, we want to create with our customers a platform for the professional exchange of ideas and to promote the creation of networking between them”.

Rinderknecht, CEO of Rinspeed AG, during his intervention.

In addition to the representatives of the industries, in the evento also had Frank M. Rinderknecht, CEO in Rinspeed AG in the municipality of Switzerland of Zumikon, together with the two scientists, Dirk Biermann, boss of the Institute of Technology of the Mechanised (ISF) in Dortmund and Patrick Pfeiffer, boss of Technology of the Mechanised in the Institute of Steering of Production, Technology and Machines Tools (PTW) in Darmstadt.

In his institute, one of the areas that the Professor Biermann (who was manager of production of motors of combustion before his career of investigation) is investigating, is the one of taladrado of deep holes in steels bainíticos.

These are special steels of high resistance that use for the production of efficient power in bielas, crankshafts and systems diesel of injection. Because of the high resistance to the traction of these steels, the tools suffer some very high strengths during the mechanised. Biermann Explains like reducing these strengths of cut in the tool using the substrata and degrees more suitable and optimising the geometry of the edge of cutting. On the other hand, the described the micro-taladrado deep with MQL (minimum quantity of lubricación), which already is using in producers of the car, like Daimler and Ford, and the profits of this method for the reduction of costs of production, increasing the energetic efficiency and associating this image to an impulse for the manufacturer.

In his exhibition, Patrick Pfeiffer of PTW presented the current tendencies in the production of motors. The mentioned like the most important challenge, the reduction of the time of production in spite of the utilisation of the new materials more difficult to mechanise, to increase the power of the engine that is converting every time in smaller and light. The demand to the tool of cutting and to the design of the process of mechanised increases continuously with the development of the project. In accordance with the conclusions of this institute, considerable improvements in the quality can be reached when the mechanised of the guides of the valves is simulated. These simulations can use to define with precision the effect of the variables of perturbation in the diverse pre-mechanised to reduce them to the minimum. The operations of mandrinado of the cylinder also form part of the critical applications in the production of motors. Pfeiffer Explained like the cryogenic refrigeration increases significantly the life of the tool, reduces in general the costs of mechanised, and reduces the cost of tool and of refrigerantes.

Start of the visit to the factory.

Frank Rinderknecht posed the fundamental subject in the evento with his presentation of the mobility en el futuro. It stood out the fact that, besides that transport and technology, the car also means emotions, and stood out this like the component that have forgotten the manufacturers of electrical trucks. New values and symbols of status would have to be defined for the potential buyers of vehicles before this new form to drive can obtain a wide coverage of market. “The soft factors, such as the mark, the image, the design and the social perception are important factors of differentiation and can provide invaluable advantages of market. The electrical driving exists from does more than 200 years, but the paradigms of mobility and the habits have changed”, aimed Rinderknecht before arriving to a surprising conclusion: “In twenty years, the classical car perhaps do not exist more”.

During the routes by Walter of the centres of production of Tübingen and Münsingen, the invited could do an idea of the high technical level of the company in the production of tools and plaquitas interchangeable. In the centre of technology of the company in his headquarters in Tübingen, Walter showed the quality and the useful life of his tools in practical demonstrations. The visit complete with the introduction of the new concept of Milling – Blaxx.

“The extremely impressesive presentations have brought us until the day of today the key areas and the challenges in the production of trucks”, said the president of Walter Mirko Merlo, that resumió the evento with his last words. “At the same time, all the participants have received a new impulse to turn into a still greater success en el futuro. Everything are professional in an area based in our knowledges. If all concentrate us in our main areas, go to be followed being competitive en el futuro”.