LAW (Lightweight Aluminium Windings)

合作伙伴将开发一种铝线缠绕机。该缠绕机将被开发出来，并为制造铝卷提供英国首个供应链解决方案。线圈绕组是eMachine制造的关键部件，不是由任何英国制造商提供的。总部位于英国的eMachines公司必须从海外供应商那里购买绕线机，或者将线圈发货给他们。合作伙伴很有能力就工作和如何利用项目成果提供指导。其中两家合作伙伴阿什伍兹和Voltalogic提供铜线圈设计，将重新设计为使用铝线。海德鲁将提供具有首选导电性和机械性能的涂层铝线。ASPIRE将在绕线机上开展工作，以提供批量生产解决方案。WMG将利用他们在批量e-Machine制造方面的开发工作来指导合作伙伴提供批量制造解决方案。与铜相比，铝卷的优势是成本更低、重量更轻。主要的缺点是较高的阻力，这降低了e-Machine在低速时的效率。随着驱动速度更快的电子机器的驱动，这一劣势正在变得更小。阿什伍德和Voltalogic开发的设计将针对铝绕组进行优化设计。海德鲁材料开发所允许的材料特性的灵活性将提供更广泛的绕组解决方案。该项目的成功完成将为e-Machine线圈绕组的制造提供英国供应链。通过这一举措，它将增强英国在提供e-Machine制造技术方面的竞争力。它将把线圈绕组的设计和制造专业知识嵌入英国供应链。该项目将通过开发使用替代材料的线圈制造工艺，在不影响性能的情况下，将电子电机的重量减少15%。该项目将首次向非公路市场提供采用先进的IPM电机技术的单源驱动系统，该系统从根本上更轻，但与当前的IPM技术一样高效。该财团的合作伙伴是阿什伍德电动汽车公司、Aspire Engineering、Voltalogic、WMG和海德鲁。技术和制造能力将由阿什伍德、Voltalogic和ASpire开发。WMG将验证线圈绕组，而阿什伍德将把这项新技术整合到他们的产品中进行基准测试。到2020年底，阿什伍德将通过自己现有的大批量OEM关系开发该项目的产出

The partners will develop a winding machine for aluminium wires. The winding machine will be developed and provide the first UK supply chain solution for manufacturing aluminium coils. Coil winding is a critical component of eMachine manufacture and is not provided by any UK manufacturer. UK based companies of eMachines have to purchase winding machines from overseas suppliers or have wound coils shipped to them.The partners well placed to provide guidance on the work and how to exploit the results of the project. Two of the partners, Ashwoods and Voltalogic, provide copper coil designs that will be redesigned to use aluminium wire. Hydro will provide coated aluminium wire with the preferred electrical conductivity and mechanical properties. Aspire will build their work on winding machines to provide a volume manufacturing solution. WMG will leverage their development work on volume e-Machine manufacture to guide the partners to the provision of a volume manufacturing solution.The advantages of aluminium coils are lower cost and lower weight compared with copper. The major disadvantage is the higher resistance, which decreases the efficiency of the e-Machine at low speeds. With the drive to higher speed e-Machines this disadvantage is becoming lower. The designs developed by Ashwoods and Voltalogic will target designs optimised for use with aluminium windings. The flexibility of material properties allowed by Hydro material development will provide a wider set of winding solutions.The successful completion of the project will provide a UK supply chain for the manufacture of e-Machine coil winding. Through this, it will enhance the UK's competitiveness to deliver e-Machine manufacturing technology. It will embed the design and manufacturing expertise for coil winding into the UK supply chain.The project will develop the reduction in weight of e-Machines by 15% without compromising performance by developing manufacturing processes for winding coils from alternative material.The project will deliver, for the first time, to the off-highway market a single source drive systems incorporating advanced IPM motor technology, radically lighter BUT equally as efficient as current IPM technology. The consortium partners are Ashwoods Electric Motors, Aspire Engineering, Voltalogic, WMG and Hydro. The technology and manufacturing capability will be developed by Ashwoods, Voltalogic and Aspire.WMG will validate the coil windings whilst Ashwoods will integrate this new technology into their products for benchmark testing. Ashwoods will exploit the outputs of this project through their own existing high-volume OEM relationships by the end of 2020