Vehicle Manufacturing Days 2022

During the first Vehicle Manufacturing Days, our in house experts at Sika, together with renowned industry experts will showcase the development of an electric and solar-powered vehicle that is about to attempt an altitude world record in early 2023.

Event Highlights

• Learn from industry experts who will discuss and showcase the development of the Peak Evolution explorer from idea to assembly.
  
  
• We will be taking you through a comprehensive overview of the best practices in engineering and simulation with adhesives, to the assembly of a lightweight electrical vehicle.

You may join all the sessions or pick and choose the ones that interest you the most.

Agenda June 14th - Engineering & Verification

Start: 14:00 CET I End: 18:00 CET

• Several sessions about the best practices from the determination of the load case, material data, use of Sika material cards, joint design from simple to complex methods.
  • Prof Dr.-Ing. Christian Schäfers (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
  • Prof. Dr. Pierre Jousset (University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil)
  • Dr. Claudio Di Fratta (Sika Services AG)
  • Ulli Müller (Sika Services AG)
  • Sanjib Banerjee (Sika India Pvt. Ltd.)
  • Piero DellaMura (Sika Services AG)

• Launch of CalcBond, a new Adhesive Joint Simulation tool created by ar engineers. Making engineering with adhesives more convenient.  
• Axel Reinsch (ar engineers, Hamburg, Germany)

Agenda June 15th - Assembly

Start: 14:00 CET I End: 17:00 CET

• Sessions about the efficient production of sandwich panels for transport vehicles. Best practices in vehicle assembly for cost efficient, simple and robust processing covering panel and glass assembly, latest adhesive technologies and industry reference cases from the bus and specialty vehicle industry.
• Lars Petersen (Sika Germany AG / Sika Services AG)
• Tony Bullivant (Sika Germany AG / Sika Services AG)
• Martin Gansner (Sika Services AG)
• David Tobler (Sika Services AG)
• Dr. Claudio Di Fratta (Sika Services AG)
• David Pröschel, David Koller, Patrik Koller (DDP Innovation, Peak Evolution)

• Qualified welders are scarce all around the world, most engineers don’t know that adhesive bonding can be used in the weld shop and free up welder capacity. Learn from Sika’s in-house experts and industry experts about how to implement adhesive bonding into your weld shop.
  • Dr.-Ing. Miriam Laubrock (University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany)
  • Case Study: Metal Bonding in off-highway manufacturing from XCMG, China
  • Marko Zivaljic (Sika Services AG)

To sign up for this free event, register before June 14.

How to register

• Click on the ‘Register Free’ button on the top of the page to register for the Vehicle Manufacturing Days 2022. 
• Fill-up the sign-up form.
• Your ‘MySika Login’ will be shared with you via email. Please activate your account by following the link ‘set password’ in the email. 
• Set your password now.
• You will then be directed to the Sika Knowledge Center, and you can proceed to sign-up for the Vehicle Manufacturing Days 2022.