Join'Em | Advanced joining and assembly processes for multi-materials

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Second training workshop for engineering students

The partners of the H2020 Factories of the Future project JOIN’EM recently organised the second training worshop for engineering students. This time, the workshop was hosted by ICAM, in Lille, France. The event, held on March 7th 2017, had more than 40 participants.

JOIN’EM workshop

The JOIN’EM project addresses current shortcomings of more traditional welding technologies when joining dissimilar metal combinations. It aims to create a cost-effective and practical way of joining aluminium and copper.

7th General Assembly

JOIN’EM was presented on the 16th of November of 2017, during the 7th General Assembly of the European Joining Sub Platform to Manufuture, in the section Industrial Challenges in Joining

Smart & Simple

Global trends are forcing industry to manufacture lighter, safer, more environmentally friendly, more performant and cheaper products. As a consequence, all industrial branches are continuously seeking innovative approaches in the fields of materials development, manufacturing systems engineering and processing technologies.

Perfect Choice

Decrease in the consumption of high cost and critical materials. JOIN-EM directly aims at decreasing the consumption of expensive copper by partially substituting it with aluminium.

Objectives

Global trends are forcing industry to manufacture lighter, safer, more environmentally friendly, more performant and cheaper products: the manufacturing systems engineering sector is aiming at better performing machine components.

Impact

Due to its excellent thermal and electrical properties, copper is the 3rd most frequently used raw material in the world. JOIN’EM directly aims at decreasing the consumption of this high cost material by partially substituting it with aluminium.

Implementation

JOIN’EM is oriented towards an integrated data exchange, with 6 mainly technical and 3 additional more organisationally-oriented work packages focussing on implementation, dissemination, exploitation, and project management.