WCA January 2022

Manufacturing Technology

❍ Hairpin production on the newWafios Speedformer

New e-mobility campus to accelerate transformation of modern drives

128 years of expertise in wire processing technologies and more than 45 years of CNC technology know-how. With this technology, the wire is a moving object that needs to be shaped, and the material is guided and processed so that defined and reproducible components are created. The newly developedWafios Speedformer is software controlled and can produce a wide variety of parts without the need to change tools. It can achieve a cycle time of 1 to 1.3 seconds per part. Wafios AG www.wafios.com

including the development of machines, the customer centre, production of prototypes and sample parts, and commissioning of machines. The company’s dedication to electro mobility began more than five years ago, with the development of bending technologies for busbars and subsequently also for hairpins as a central module for the production of stators for electric motors. Sales in the prototype manufacturing sector alone have multiplied in the last three years. The development of a unique hairpin bending technology was the result of

Wafios AG is to establish an e-mobility campus on the premises of the former Südwerk in Reutlingen, south of Stuttgart, Germany. A €10mn investment has been approved by the company’s supervisory board – €5mn for sample part and prototype production machinery, €3mn for the modernisation of buildings, and €2mn for infrastructure and workplace measures. The campus will comprise a total area of 1,800m 2 , with additional space available if needed. Wafios’s activities in the e-mobility sector will be pooled at the e-mobility campus,

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January 2022