Evaluation of energy efficient joining processes in the field of electric drives manufacturing considering quality aspects

Abstract

The implementation of green products and matching manufacturing processes increasingly attract public attention. Therefore, the institute FAPS analyzed the joining process as it is identified to be one of the major energy consumers in the context of electric drives manufacturing. The present approach introduces a statistically developed methodology to predict the energy consumption and the resulting connection quality of one of the major, currently available joining techniques. Therefore an analytical model was developed, which was afterwards used to optimize the parameter settings of an industrial cooperation partner.