the Program Agenda

22nd ANNUAL ALAW PROGRAM AGENDA
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Monday, June 1
8 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Exhibit Set up in the Garden Gallery Room
9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
NEW Lasers 101: Certificate Course with Exam & Boxed Lunch in Wisdom Room
David Havrilla, TRUMPF, Inc.
11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Golf Outing and Boxed Lunches
Noon Shot Gun Start- Inn at St. John’s Golf Course
5 - 8 p.m.
ALAW Welcome Reception & Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, June 2
7 – 7:45 a.m.
Breakfast sponsored by:
Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
7:50 - 8 a.m.
General Session in the Grande Ballroom Welcome Remarks by Co-Chairs:
Mariana Forrest, LASAP, Inc. & Robert Ruokolainen, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
8:05 – 9 a.m.
KEYNOTE: Investigation of Hot Cracking in Aluminum Laser Welding and
Prevention Strategies
Blair Carlson, General Motors
9:05 – 9:25 a.m.
Intelligent Laser Welding Head with Real-Time Direct Penetration Monitoring
Tom Kugler, Laser Mechanisms
9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
Joining Steel to Aluminum and Multi-Materials Joining
Jens Standfuss, Fraunhofer IWS
9:55 - 10:10 a.m.
Networking Break and Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
10:15- 10: 35 a.m.
10:40 – 11:00 a.m.
11:05 - 11:25 a.m.
Process Data Management for Laser Beam Welding of Complex and Critical
Weld-Assemblies in Rail Car Manufacturing
Holger Alder, Photon Laser Mfg. GmbH and Mariana Forrest, LASAP, Inc.
Lasers in the Process Chain Hot Forming
Frank Geyer, TRUMPF, Inc.
Advancements in High Power Laser Performance Measurements
John McCauley, Ophir-Spiricon, LLC
Tuesday, June 2 Continued…
11:30-11:50 a.m.
Lightweighting the Exhaust System with Laser Welding
Dan Robinson, Weil Engineering, N.A.
11:55- 12:15 p.m.
Welding with the Laser in Vacuum: Results for Automotive Components
Michael Muecke, PTR Präzisionstechnik GmbH
12:15- 12:45 p.m.
Networking Lunch in the Judea Ballroom & Exhibits in the Garden Gallery
12:50- 1:10 p.m.
Welding of Dissimilar Materials: Galvanized Steel to Aluminum
Masoud Harooni, Keihin North America, Inc.
1:15 – 1:35 p.m.
Beam Delivery Modules for Ultra High-Power Cutting and Welding
Mustafa Coskun, IPG Midwest Operations
1:40 – 2 p.m.
Integrating a Weld Camera to a Laser Process
Catherine Cline, Xiris Automation, Inc.
2:05- 2:25 p.m.
Laser Welding in Tube Production
Tomas Muzik, MATEX PM
2:30- 2:50 p.m.
Networking Break & Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
2:55- 3:15 p.m.
Advancements in High-Power Focusing Optics
Stan Ream, EWI
3:20- 3:40 p.m.
In-Process Depth Meter IDM – A Milestone in Process Monitoring
Thibault Bautze, Precitec, Inc.
3:45- 4:05 p.m.
Extending the Scope of Remote Laser Welding with New System
Capabilities
Tim Morris, Blackbird Robotics
4:10- 4:30 p.m.
High Brightness Multi-kilowatt Direct Diode Laser Applications
Using Wavelength Beam Combining Technology
Franciso Villareal Saucedo, TeraDiode
4:35 -5:35 p.m.
Networking Reception & Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
5:45 - 9 p.m.
Live Demos at TRUMPF
Open House Reception &
TRUMPF, Inc.
Laser Technology Center
4711 Clipper St.
Plymouth, MI 48170
5:45-9 p.m.
Wednesday, June 3
7 – 7:30 a.m.
Breakfast and Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
7:35 - 8:20 a.m.
General Session in the Grande Ballroom
KEYNOTE: Chris Kuehl, FMA’s Economist & Bernard Swiecki, CAR
8:25 - 8:45 a.m.
Laser Additive Manufacturing
Sandro Mehner, Fraunhofer CLA- USA
8:50 - 9:15 a.m.
Identification of Process Phenomena in Laser Additive Manufacturing by
Optical In-process Monitoring
Thomas Grunberger, Plasmo GmbH
9:25 - 9:45 a.m.
Latest Trends in the European Automotive Market
Christian Foehl, TRUMPF
9:50 – 10:10 a.m.
Challenges and Opportunities for Laser Based Additive Manufacturing of
Metals for Automotive Applications: Small to Large Scale Components
Suresh Babu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:10 - 10:35 a.m.
Networking Break & Exhibits in the Garden Gallery Room
10:40 - 11 a.m.
New Developments in Laser Edge Welding Using Integrated Clamping and
Optical Seam Tracking
Christof Franz and Tom Graham, Abicor Binzel
11:05 - 11:25 a.m.
Aluminum Welding & Process Monitoring
Steffen Mueller and Rahul Patwa, Fraunhofer USA- CLA
11:30 - 11:50 a.m.
Current Trends in Automotive Joining
Axel Luft, Laserline
11:55 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Mapping the Pathway to Laser Braze Integration
Mark Anderson, COMAU
12:30 - 4 p.m.
Open House Lunch & Live Demos at Fraunhofer USA CLA
Fraunhofer USA
Center for Laser Applications (CLA)
46025 Port St.
Plymouth, MI 48170
12:30 - 4 p.m.