EALA – European Automotive Laser Applications

26th Expert Conference

EALA, European Automotive Laser Applications, is Automotive Circle’s focus conference on everything to do with laser-based material processing in any area of automobile series production. Since 1999, the conference has taken place annually in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and has been discussing technical advancements regarding, for instance,

laser-based welding, brazing, cutting, drilling, cladding, surface structuring or surface cleaning
laser systems and laser optics
laser beam and laser seam analytics and process control
process data management and AI- or non-AI-based data analyses
corresponding simulation techniques
new application areas of industrial laser material processing, in any component of the automobile.

Bringing together an international audience of laser systems and automotive engineering experts, the conference always aims at presenting a mixture of latest application progress reports from trailblazing OEM and Tier1 module suppliers, most recent innovations from laser system and process control equipment suppliers and highly interesting academic study results.

Next Instalment

Please note the date: The 26^th EALA edition takes place on February 4-5, 2025 in Bad Nauheim, Germany and online.

Now with AI-powered simultaneous translation into 60+ different languages!

EXHIBITION

Benefit from the exhibition on site, where topic-specific products and services will be displayed!

MEET THE SPEAKERS

During the breaks, the speakers of the immediately preceding block will be available for your individual questions and further discussions.

LIVE POLLS ON SITE

Ask your specific questions on current issues and benefit from the answers of the conference´s expert audience!

Conference Program

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

8.40 am	Welcome and conference introduction	Dr. Dirk Meine, Automotive Circle, DE
	OEM laser system concepts
9.00 am	Lasers from manual rework to automated series production	Markus Lachenmaier, BMW Group, DE; Georg Meyndt, Alpha Laser GmbH, DE
9.30 am	Laser weldability in the context of a new assembly concept in the electric powertrain	Dr. Andreas Bünting, Mercedes-Benz AG, DE; Richard Steinbrecht, Lessmüller Lasertechnik GmbH, DE
10.00 am	Solution for copper bus-bar welding with large cross sections using standard IR laser sources	Pravin Sievi, Scansonic MI GmbH, DE
10.30 am	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Coffee and contacts
	Structural car body laser applications
11.15 am	Dual Ring Beam laser welding of Aluminium & Cast Aluminium	Jarno Kangastupa, Coherent Corp., FI
11.45 am	Remote Laser weldable Al6xxxx-Extrusions	Wojciech Osikowicz, Hydro Extrusions, SE
12.15 pm	Standardised system technology to reduce the complexity of laser brazing applications	Volker Bittermann, Volkswagen AG, DE; Alexander Dobbert, Coherent Corp., DE
12.45 pm	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Lunch break
	New functionality
2.00 pm	Invisible laser structuring as a security feature	Dr. Christian Freitag, LightPulse Laser Precision, DE
2.30 pm	Rapid coating of brake discs: laser cladding that enables sustainability	John Stavridis, Prima Additive, IT
3.00 pm	Ultra high speed scanner optics for cleaning applications	Edwin Büchter, Clean-Lasersysteme GmbH, DE
3.30 pm	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Coffee and contacts
	Laser welding in e-mobility applications
4.15 pm	About the influence of welding parameters and external influences during busbar welding of prismatic cells and what can be detected using spectroscopy	Dr. Christian Otten, LaVa-X GmbH, DE
4.45 pm	The holistic approach for economically welding battery interconnects	Sebastian Moser, Precitec, Inc., US; William Huffman, Photon Automation, Inc., US
5.15 pm	Artificial intelligence based in-line weld quality for Battery Cell Assembly and Busbar – online presentation –	Hassan Ghassemi-Armaki, General Motors Company, US
5.45 pm	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Get together
7.15 pm	Networking Dinner

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

	Laser process innovations
9.00 am	Novel laser processes for joining AlSi-coated boron steel – How beam shaping becomes a game changer for the car body industry	Marc Hummel, Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik SE, DE
9.30 am	Innovative all-reflective laser beam shaping for robust laser welding	Frederik Wolf, Midel Photonics GmbH, DE
10.00 am	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Coffee and contacts
	Weld quality monitoring (I)
10.45 am	The importance of customized integrated solutions for laser welding quality monitoring based on mass production experience	Yongjoon Cho, Monitech Co., Ltd., KR
11.15 am	Application of laser processing and monitoring technology in the visible range for e-mobility parts	Dr. Hideaki Shirai, Denso Corporation, JP
11.45 am	Smart laser welding by AI supported process monitoring and control – review, current results, and future potential	Dr. Michael Ungers, Scansonic MI GmbH, DE; Julius Neuß, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, DE
12.15 pm	Data-driven process maps for laser welding: Accelerating development and predicting weld quality	Andreas Heider, Robert Bosch GmbH, DE
12.45 pm	Meet the Speakers / Exhibition / Lunch break
	Weld quality monitoring (II)
2.00 pm	Pre and post scanning weld interfaces to improve weld quality	William Waywell, Oliver Bailey, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd., UK
2.30 pm	Multi-spectral analysis of hairpin welds	Dr. Sören Hollatz, 4D Photonics GmbH, DE
3.00 pm	Static and dynamic laser beam shaping for e-mobility applications: Physical and practical impacts via computational fluid dynamics simulation	Marcin Serdeczny, Flow Science Inc., US
	OEM outlook and conclusions
3.30 pm	OEM Advisory Board experts on current challenges regarding laser application in automotive production.
3.45 pm	Farewell address and end of the conference