01 09 Lucia Terragni BU Manager Automotive Pneumax S.p.a. The Automotive BU operates in the automotive sector with special focus on the BIW-Body in White process. A sector that has always been a driving force in the Italian economy, which today faces an important and epochal ecological, energetical and technological transition. "Despite the fact that the players in the sector are experiencing a great deal of uncertainty due to the lack of clarity in supranational regulation, in the automotive sector today we are seeing R&D investments on an unprecedented scale,” explains Lucia Terragni, Head of BU Automotive. This is also to cope with a transition that is imposing a real revolution on the sector, where starting from an initial desire to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, we have moved on to a real redefinition of the concept of mobility and technology enabled fundamentally by digitalisation on two fronts: the streamlining of combustion processes and the development of new business models thanks to data collection”. In view of the ban in 2035 of the production of light vehicles with combustion engines, the main trend in the sector is therefore electrification, which in terms of its impact on the BIW process is linked to so-called lightweighting, i.e. the trend to reduce the weight of cars as much as possible to compensate for that of batteries. For Pneumax, this means engineering and manufacturing of new products that are suitable for new materials, aluminium alloys but also composites or carbon alloys. An important driver of the Division's development concerns the safety of the operator: the latest series of clamps we have presented is equipped with a patented pneumatic-mechanical system, integrated directly into the end cap of the device, which keeps the clamping arm in the open position even with is no air. A further driver of development that impacts on every design choice is the reduction of the energy consumption for the production process; all components are designed with a focus on energy saving, such as our High Efficiency Clamp series, which, thanks to an original solution, saves up to 40% in air consumption compared to the competition, with the same functional parameters. AUTOMOTIVE: SAFETY & ENERGY SAVING 3.
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