Chery is the 8th EV maker from China to be approved following BYD, MG, Great Wall Motor, Changan Automobile, GAC Aion, NETA and Foton, Narit Therdsteerasukdi, BOI Secretary-General, said on 22 April 2024. Chery exported 1.8 million units last year, and aims to use Thailand as a production base to meet the domestic demand for right-hand drive EVs, as well as export the vehices to ASEAN, Australia and the Middle East.

In the first phase, Chery will establish a factory in Rayong province before the end of 2025 to produce both battery EV (BEV) and hybrid EV (HEV) vehicles at a rate of 50,000 units per year, he said. In the second phase, the production capacity will be expanded to 80,000 units per year by 2028. Chery did not unveil the total investment value.

Narit added that Chery’s EV will be marketed in Thailand under the names Omoda and Jaecoo, the company’s sub brands for foreign markets. Chery will also import the Omoda C5, the company’s first 100% SUV EV model to spearhead the Thai market around June this year at its brand-new 39 showrooms countrywide. More models of off-road EVs will follow, including the Jaecoo 6, 7, and 8, the latter two plug-in hybrid EVs.

Narit said the BOI has so far approved 26 investment projects related to manufacturing and assembly of electric vehicles from 19 companies, with total investment value of over THB 80 billion.

“The BOI is committed to the government’s policy of making Thailand a manufacturing hub of EVs in the region under the 30@30 target, with zero-emission vehicles making up 30% of total automotive production by the year 2030,” he said.

The 30@30 target translates into 725,000 electric cars and 675,000 electric motorcycles per year.

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H.E. Mr Srettha Thavisin, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, along with the Ministry of Industry and the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) participated in the grand opening ceremony to witness this new milestone of Delta’s 35-year journey in Thailand. Delta management from headquarters along with key industry partners and media also attended the grand opening and explored the advanced production lines.

The Prime Minister delivered a special address at the event, expressing the government’s delight at the opening of the new factory and its full support for Delta Electronics Thailand as a leading electronics manufacturer and exporter. The company is ready to support Thailand’s policies and has announced investments to help promote the Prime Minister’s vision to make Thailand a Future Mobility Hub and a Digital Economy Hub.

Mr. Victor Cheng, Delta Thailand CEO, said, “Today is a milestone in Delta’s 35 years of development in Thailand. Since 2010, we have produced EV power electronic products in Thailand. Our new Delta Plant 8 aims to meet growing demand for our EV products and our new R&D center will develop automotive power electronics locally for the first time. We believe our significant investments will greatly benefit the industry, economy and environment of Thailand and our Southeast Asia region.”

Victor Cheng, CEO of Delta Thailand gave a speech on the grand opening of Delta’s new plant and RD center.

Delta’s EV products range from power management products, including onboard chargers and DC/DC converters, and powertrain products, including traction inverters and traction motors, to thermal management solutions and passive components. Delta’s global customers include top automotive manufacturers from Europe, the USA and Japan.

Since 2010, Delta Thailand has produced EV power electronics products for global customers at Delta Plant 1 with a floor space of 25,000 square meters. The new factory and R&D center with 30,400 square meters of floor space aim to increase production capacity for the rapidly growing EV business.

Delta’s advanced and efficient automotive production includes all processes from raw materials receiving and storage to sub-processing, SMT processing, PWBA processing, assembly and burn-in with final testing before shipment of finished goods. The investment of almost THB 3 billion for the facilities also showcases Delta’s energy-efficient building automation solutions and smart manufacturing solutions to increase productivity and quality on production lines.

Celebrating 35 years of development, Delta Thailand is the only Thailand company listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices’ World Index in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” category from 2022 to 2023 and has received Supplier Engagement Leader 2022 recognition by CDP for supply chain sustainability. 

Delta Thailand is now entering a new phase of growth expanding its R&D, manufacturing and business footprint in local markets while supporting the development in the Thailand S-curve focus industries of Next-Gen Automotive and Smart Electronics, establishing a solid foundation for expansion in the Southeast Asia region.

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Introduction

Wheel hub powers better steering, which has become a must-have for automotive. The industry witnessed a continuous research and innovation since the late 19^th century in automotive. It is one of the most dynamic fields, accounting for at least one in ten jobs in industrialised countries. 

The industry integrates advanced technologies in vehicles to reduce emissions and ensure customers’ safety. However, in a world where material fabrication and metal heat treatment are outsourced, engineers need to be sure materials are properly processed before use.

The Wheel Hub serves as the glue between the wheel and axle. Wheels are attached with studs to the hub assembly. The hub assembly fits on the axle, connecting the wheel assembly to the rest of the car; bridging the wheel and the entire vehicle. 

If one part fails; it creates a ripple effect. A hub is not a single piece of hardware. Instead, it needs a handful of other parts to do its job.

It is mounted with bearings; cylindrical pieces packed with grease that reduces friction during wheel spin. The Wheel Hub bearing is used to increase fuel efficiency, providing smooth and safe ride for passengers with Anti-lock Braking Systems (ABS). 

This research is related to the design of the workholding device for manufacturing the Wheel Hub section that is too long. The design uses the collet mechanism, improvements include adding a pneumatic cylinder for up and down mechanism, for top clamping of the output loader on the top plate that helps hold the component firmly for operations.

The operator ensures proper alignment of the forged component placed and reduces the rate of scrap from misalignment after manufacturing. This workholding provides good working area for the operator in component manufacturing.

Methodology

The idea was to develop a workholding device for manufacturing Wheel Hub part, which can be manufactured to the exact dimensions of the drawing using the GD&T tools.

A standard operating procedure was adopted till the final manufacturing stage. All operations were carried out on CNC and VMC machine, in case of any burs, auto-deburring was carried out at specific speed.

This workholding device is manufactured for a specific machine. The design of this fixture is drafted by keeping all machining considerations, movements and factors. The final working of this workholding was evaluated and specific planning for mass production of four components in a single run was also studied.

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Before STUDER came into the picture, Cem Dizdar, SELSA’s Managing Director recounted his family fleeing former Yugoslavia during the war, a move that that led to founding one of the country’s flagship companies in the machining sector. His father, a mechanical engineer trained in Germany, established the company in 1992 from scratch.

Back then, only a handful of employees worked in a small space. There are some 280 skilled workers today manufacturing precision parts for an international clientele from the automotive sector, in a modern 7,000 sqm (75,400 sqft) facility round the clock. Most recently, five CNC universal cylindrical grinding machines from STUDER have been added to the operation.

“There is no more prestigious brand than STUDER when it comes to grinding machines, and we did not want to compromise on quality and precision with this investment,” says Dizdar, explaining the purchase of four favourite machines and one favourite CNC.

He speaks from his office at SELSA’s headquarters in Bursa, and one of the Turkey’s most important industrial centers for the automotive industry.

Customer Diversification And High Technology As A Strategy

A German automotive supplier has also been producing in Bursa since the 1970s.

“We have a long history with STUDER,” says Dizdar.

His grandfather worked there, his father completed supplementary training, and his mother from Germany was a teacher in Bursa who taught the children of the employees. When the first major order for the mass production of diesel injection nozzles came in 1995, it was an important milestone for SELSA.

The high demands on quality, precision, and efficiency have become ingrained in the company’s DNA, earning it a reputation beyond the local region. Dizdar has been familiar with all the company’s operations and processes since his youth and later studied mechanical engineering in Istanbul himself.

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Sallegger Technologies is an engineering company that builds complex machines and plants for the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, agricultural and tobacco industries, as well as for environmental and process engineering. After 27 years of innovative solutions and persistent striving for quality, Sallegger Technologies is one of the leading companies in its sector in Austria with help from Hexagon.

The company specialises in quality control in production, 3D printed parts, reverse engineering and metrology services as its main areas of application. In addition to contract manufacturing of prototypes and series, the company also offers 3D scanning and subsequent data processing, and because of this is Austria’s only provider in the field of additive manufacturing.

In product development, customers are accompanied throughout the entire development process, from international procurement of parts to CE assessment and documentation. In the search for competent partners in 3D measurement technology during at the Hexagon Scanning Day event in Spielberg – the Austrian home of Formula 1 – in autumn 2019, Sallegger Technologies found Hexagon’s structured light scanner technology together with Duwe-3d AG and PolyWorks software to offer the best overall measurement system for its tasks.

Since then, Hexagon and Duwe-3d AG have been supporting the engineering office in its projects and providing advice on the measurement, analysis and reconstruction of components.

“Sallegger Technologies is a partner of Hexagon – service requests they receive are passed on directly to us,” explains Thomas Pfeifer, Head of Innovations at Sallegger. “The fast and highly accurate SmartScan R12 optical 3D scanner is our primary measuring instrument. It is one of the leading metrology solutions for complex surface geometries and, thanks to non-contact fringe projection scanning technology, is also optimally suited for sensitive or easily deformable parts. At the same time, the fringe projection scanning technology ensures pin-sharp imaging down to the smallest detail.”

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Rollomatic’s new model LaserSmart® 810XL with its innovative and powerful lase source has been designed for larger-diameter PCD tools (polycrystalline diamond) and other ultra-hard materials up to dia. 12”, a total length of 14” and a total load capacity of 33 lbs (14.97 kg).

This machine is built on the success of the Rollomatic LaserSmart® series of machines and particularly addresses the profile cutting and ablation of diamond tooling in the larger diameter range as well as tools with a Monoblock adaptor.

The ideal and typical application fields for this machine are the woodworking, automotive and aerospace industries. These are some benefits which set this model 810XL apart from conventional laser cutting machines:

‐ Achieves surface finishes as low as Ra 40 nanometers.

‐ Patented axis configuration.

‐ Produces crisper and sharper cutting edges compared to conventional laser machines.

‐ 30% faster feedrates compared to conventional laser machines

‐ Highly intuitive software based on the successful models 510 and 510femto.

-> Software easily interprets 3D files and data entry. Communicates effortlessly with the operator and the machine systems.

-> Automatic blank detection.

-> Auto calculation of the tool structure & auto application of the dxf files to the blanks.

‐> 6 internal cameras assist the operator in quick setup and efficient production.

‐ High repeatability and near-zero TIR in conjunction with in-process measuring.

‐ Produces precise cylindrical margins on any tool size.

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By significantly expanding its Kulim fab – over and above the original investment announced in February 2022 – Infineon will build the world’s largest 200-millimeter SiC (silicon carbide) Power Fab. The planned expansion is backed by customer commitments covering about €5 billion of new design-wins in automotive and industrial applications as well as about €1 billion in pre-payments.

Over the next five years Infineon will additionally invest up to €5 billion in Kulim during a second construction phase for Module Three. The investment will lead to an annual SiC revenue potential of about €7 billion by the end of the decade, together with the planned 200-millimeter SiC conversion of Villach and Kulim.

This highly competitive manufacturing base will support Infineon’s SiC market share target of 30% towards the end of the decade. Infineon is confident that the company’s SiC revenue in the fiscal year 2025 will come in ahead of the target of €1 billion.

“The market for silicon carbide shows accelerating growth, not only in automotive but also in a broad range of industrial applications such as solar, energy storage and high-power EV charging. With the Kulim expansion, we will secure our leadership position in this market,” said Jochen Hanebeck, CEO of Infineon.

“With the industry’s leading scale and a unique cost position, we are leveraging our competitive position of best-in-class SiC trench technology, the broadest package portfolio and unrivaled application understanding. These factors are the areas of differentiation and success in the industry.”

Infineon has been awarded new design wins of about €5 billion along with about €1 billion in prepayments from existing and new customers: In the automotive sector this includes six OEMs, three of them from China.

Among the customers are Ford, SAIC and Chery. In the area of renewable energies customers include SolarEdge and three leading Chinese photovoltaic and energy storage systems companies.  In addition, Infineon and Schneider Electric agreed on a capacity reservation including prepayments for power products based on silicon and silicon carbide.

Infineon and the respective customers will provide more details in separate announcements in the near future. The prepayments will contribute positively to Infineon’s cash flow in the coming years and shall be fully repaid in connection with the agreed sales volumes by 2030 at the latest.

The Right Honourable Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, expressed his appreciation for Infineon’s commitment to creating a significant wide bandgap hub in the country.

“Malaysia is putting in maximum efforts to meet its national target to decarbonise its economy and achieve net zero by 2050. Malaysia’s continued appeal as a preferred investment destination comes with a well-established landscape for developing innovative and sustainable technologies. In this vein, Infineon’s vision on green technology and sustainability puts it right at home in Malaysia. Infineon and other well-established German corporations’ continued faith in Malaysia is a vote of confidence in Malaysia’s new economic growth agenda premised on inclusivity and sustainability, enabled by strong policies on knowledge transfer, quality investments, business enablement and socio-economic well-being based on equitable sharing of the nation’s wealth.”

The Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI), His Hon. Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Aziz lauded Infineon’s expansion and said, “Infineon’s expansion of their world-class silicon carbide facility in Kulim marks a significant milestone in Malaysia’s pursuit of developing advanced manufacturing capabilities, creating high-skilled employment opportunities and positioning the country at the forefront of enabling green technologies, which are crucial to achieving our global sustainable development goals.

“The innovative power semiconductor technologies manufactured in the SiC Power Fab will also bolster Malaysia’s position as a key player in the world’s semiconductor ecosystem, with a growing role specifically in the sustainable technology supply chain. I am heartened by Infineon’s sharing of Malaysia’s commitment to address the impact of climate change and I look forward to our long-term partnership for the further development of Malaysia’s green technologies ecosystem.”

Sustainability is a key element in the planning, construction and operation of the fab. The building is designed in a way that allows Infineon to make responsible use of resources such as electricity and water.

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By redirecting its Himeji-based factory into an EV battery production base, Panasonic aims to enhance its position in this rapidly growing sector. The decision to dissolve the subsidiary comes with significant financial implications. Panasonic will waive a substantial ¥580 billion ($4.11 billion) debt owed by the display unit to another subsidiary.

The subsidiary primarily focused on producing LCDs for automotive and industrial applications. However, increased price competition from South Korea (Samsung and LG), Taiwan, and mainland China led to a decline in profitability.

In response, Panasonic decided in 2019 to scale down its LCD business to focus solely on inventory sales. The liquidation of the LCD business will result in the loss of approximately 500 jobs in Himeji.

Partnership With Subaru

Japanese automaker Subaru instead plans to join forces with Panasonic Energy to build automotive cylindrical Li-ion batteries for its new EVs. Subaru appears confident the partnership will enable them meet the meet the demand for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and automotive batteries in a rapidly expanding market.

Subaru disclosed they will hold discussions regarding Panasonic Energy supplying them with next-generation automotive cylindrical lithium-ion batteries.

The announcement was quoted as saying, “Subaru will install batteries purchased from Panasonic Energy in BEVs to be produced from the latter half of the 2020s at its sites, including a dedicated BEV plant scheduled to be constructed in Gunma, Japan.”

It added that Subaru and Panasonic Energy will contribute to developing the automotive and battery industries and help solve social issues, such as maintaining employment in the region and developing human resources.”

Subaru reportedly announced accelerating its electrification and other initiatives by “setting a roadmap toward 2050 to contribute to the realization of a carbon-neutral society.” Subaru’s electrification plan and will offer three new electric vehicles by 2026. 

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In future, servo press with high-strength materials will be widely used to make vehicles much lighter albeit with a higher safety level. This is given most people agree electric vehicles and the lightweighting trend supporting CO₂ emission reduction target drives revolutionalise vehicle manufacturing technologies. 

As materials become stronger and parts become more complex, traditional presses (as compared to servo) need to make sacrifices in speed, tonnage, and flexibility — super alloys.

Drawbacks Of Conventional Presses

Having a servo press that can be optimised for each part being made allows stampers to be more productive and provide high-quality parts with less equipment, as the primary challenge for metal stampers to use these materials is difficult-to-form characteristics.

With traditional presses, stampers may encounter cracks or serious parts springback effect. Despite quality can be controlled, the ideal production rate cannot be achieved as compared to servo press.

SEYI’s servo press can be used in various stamping applications and industries to meet users’ unique demands and applications. SEYI’s servo motors and control system’s fully programmable press slide motion allows users to optimise the press for every part.

The parameters of different slide motion profiles are easily setup on the user-friendly human machine interface (HMI). For example on the servo press, the slide can move slowly through the working portion of the stroke to prevent cracking of stamped parts but rapidly throughout the rest to improve productivity.

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According to DIGITimes, the rising penetration of new energy vehicles (NEV) in China, China-based automakers, such as BYD, SAIC, Nio, and Li Auto, are developing automotive chips to strengthen resilience and reduce reliance on other suppliers. SAIC said it would invest RMB6 billion (US$830 million) to form a joint venture with partners, with SAIC holding a 99.8% stake in the JV, to engage in developing automotive chips and accelerate import substitution.

Following efforts for automotive chip localisation, including setting up funds, investing in integrated circuit (IC) design houses, and forming joint ventures (JV) with partners, SAIC targets to bring the proportion of locally-sourced chips to 10% in 2023, up from 7% in 2022, and plans to reach 30% by 2025. SAIC has also set a target to complete the vehicle validation of 100 domestically produced chips by the end of 2023.

In addition to SAIC, other companies such as BYD, Geely, NIO, and Li Auto are jumping into the bandwagon to develop their automotive chips in various ways, including investments. In March 2023 , SiEngine, co-funded by Geely’s subsidiary ECARX and Arm China, completed its third round of financing within a year.

Automakers have introduced SiEngine’s first chip, made on TSMC’s 7nm node. The company is developing its next-generation chip for smart cockpit, autonomous driving, and CPU for vehicles.

Zhejiang Jingnen Microelectronics, a start up incubated by Geely, completed its second round of financing in June 2023. In March, it announced the successful tape-out of its first auto-grade IGBT chip and plans to introduce its product into several cars in 2023. 

As competition intensifies in the Chinese new EV market, major automakers are increasing their investments in automotive chips to ensure supply security. Still, due to the high requirement for technology and capital for auto-grade MCU and analog chips, the local sourcing rate is relatively low in China.

Sources indicated that except for a few automaker giants, like Tesla, which can set up separate businesses for designing chips, most carmakers would have to acquire IC design capability either through investments or joint ventures. Besides, automakers also face challenges such as prolonged timelines for investment returns, chip standardisation, economies of scale, and cost issues.

Navigating Quality Issues

While titans such as Tesla have the means to start a design facility as mentioned prior, the others would have to content with joining forces with fellow players. That is the catalyst for quality issues. UK based media outlet, The Register reported China is getting concerned with its quality issues.

The article noted China wants its manufacturers to become more reliable, after finding that three key sectors – machinery, electronics, and automobiles – are not at levels that match global standards of excellence. It added the nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on 4 July 2023 published an interpretation and implementation guide for recently released “Opinions on Manufacturing Reliability Improvement.” 

The guide opens with the observation that Chinese manufacturing has made significant progress, but “there is still a gap between the reliability of my country’s manufacturing industry and the advanced level of foreign countries.”

“Advanced semiconductor materials, and automotive-grade automotive chips” are named as fields in which Chinese firms do not operate at levels matching the best the world has to offer. Some of the gap is caused by Chinese authorities and managers not being up to speed on how to monitor and manage quality processes.

Beijing wants those gaps bridged, so that China moves from middling sophistication to high-end work. To get there, China wants consideration of tech elements such as human-computer interaction, and the software used by manufacturers. Authorities always want products to be more reliable in all phases of their lifecycles – even unto eventual disposal.

The Ministry vows to run 100 demonstrations of how to improve reliability, and for at least 1,000 enterprises to have shown tangible results by 2025. A second phase of action, due to end in 2030, should see China fully adopt reliability standards across ten key products.

Administrators are also expected to be ready to enforce reliability standards by 2030. Electronics was selected as a target industry due to its vital role providing components to others, and also because Beijing feels it is sufficiently mature to respond to a call for improved reliability.

The automotive industry was named due to the importance of transport and the obvious negative impacts that flow from sub-optimal products. Machinery was nominated given its enormous and important industry that China thinks needs to reach an improved level of operation.

Aiming Beyond Good Enough

With ambitious goals set for improving reliability, China aims to make significant strides in enhancing the quality of its products by implementing reliability standards across key industries. The Ministry’s commitment to conducting demonstrations and driving tangible results is a promising step towards achieving their targets by 2025.

By extending the efforts until 2030, China intends to fully adopt reliability standards and enforce them, particularly in the electronics, automotive, and machinery sectors. Recognising the semiconductor’s need to catch up to global reliability standards may ease concerns in nations that have imposed sanctions on China, while other countries reliant on Chinese goods may contemplate the value they receive. Only time can tell if her mission to transcend “good enough” will be successful — though it is an obvious long shot now.

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