(从右至左) Christian Grob，Marco Debilio，
Mauro Marzolla，Margherita Marzolla，
German Wankmiller，Wolfram Weber
通过收购意大利公司 DMG meccanica，一家处于领先水平的电动机设备制造商，格劳博不仅提升了其在电动汽车领域的专业技术水平，还通过拓展产品组合(即新增“电动汽车”业务领域)成为汽车工业的全方位服务商和合作伙伴，并为未来发展做好了充分准备。
DMG meccanica (格劳博集团成员)的员工
可以确定，采用纯电池驱动并配备完全不同于现有动力总成系统的电动车终将得到广泛推广。到那时，不仅内燃机发动机及其组件(如：喷射泵，活塞，凸轮轴和涡轮增压器)的需求会减少，传统齿轮箱以及整个排气系统和油路也将被省去。因此，格劳博从三年前就已经开始研究未来动力总成系统的各种组件。并很快认识到各类电动机(同步电动机、他励异步电动机和混合动力发动机)将是量产机床未来开发的重要组件。对于格劳博来说，不管是生成适用于车用电动机的机床，还是生产适用于内燃发动机组件的机床，意义都是一样的。在对电动机各种技术进行细致分析后，格劳博编订了趋势和市场分析报告，并认识到现有技术和全新技术都还只是处于早期研发阶段。并且很快认识到一点，即汽车工业的现有技术要实现量产，还需要相应生产设备的支持，而当前这类市场需求非常大——参见特斯拉、大众和宝马。
格劳博和汽车工业——长期合作
在汽车工业转型发展和电动汽车重要性不断提升的背景下，格劳博接到的关于电力驱动项目的问询显著增加。目前，几乎每一家汽车制造商都推出了混合动力车型和纯电动车型，其结果是，格劳博目前同时推进多个国际汽车制造商的电力驱动项目。格劳博之所以能够完成这些项目，是因为已有大量专家和研发工程师积极钻研这一领域的相关技术。他们与知名汽车制造商密切合作，正式启动“电力发动机”和“电池模块”等重要组件的预开发阶段，并分析定子生产和设计相关的各种设计流程，对其进行更深入的开发。现在的格劳博目标明确并且能力出众，完全能够承担更多规模更大的项目，成为混合动力或纯电力驱动完整动力总成系统的全方位服务商，提供电动机、电池模块、电池组以及燃料电池的生产设备和机床，并以流程安全为前提打造这些组件量产所需的相应机床。
推进战略举措，进军电动汽车领域
因为格劳博是为数不多的高端数控机床制造商之一，在“金属切削机床”和“装配技术”领域均实力不凡，所以它对是否涉足电动机领域进行了自我评估并最终确定，绕线技术有望成为公司的重要价值增长点。格劳博还对成熟的卷线技术机床制造商进行了研究和分析，这类制造商主要分布在日本、德国和意大利北部。格劳博很快意识到要么必须自主研发绕线技术，要么必须从市场上购买相应技术。经过一段时间的考察后，格劳博将位于都灵的 DMG meccanica 锁定为绕线技术和卷线技术的领先候选公司之一。此后，经过与 DMG meccanica管理层的首轮谈判，格劳博发现企业主人 Mauro Marzolla 和 Marco Debilio的技术、经验、品质及其人性化构成与格劳博公司的价值观不谋而合。在接下来的谈判中，双方很快达成深入合作的共识，并最终确定收购 DMG meccanica。
DMG meccanica 与格劳博GROB
在柏林 CWIEME 展的首次共同亮相
电动机设备制造领域的知名合作伙伴
1992 年，在 PAVESI 公司拆分之际，Mauro Marzolla 及 Marco Debilio的父亲在都灵创立了 DMG meccanica公司。PAVESI 公司曾是意大利著名的电动机绕线机供应商。两位公司合伙人 Marzolla 和 Debilio 将自己数十年的电动机绕线技术经验都注入了这家公司。在最初几年里，DMG meccanica和 PAVESI 合作密切。2001年，PAVESI 被 DMG meccanica 收购。随后，DMG meccanica 开始了一段黄金发展期。在这期间，一系列新技术和发明被推向市场。其中既包含电动机、交流发电机和发动机所需的定子生产解决方案和机床，也包含高效绕线机的解决方案。负责推进这些里程碑式技术发展的正是堪称业界一流精英的 DMG meccanica 工程师们，使这些发展得以致用。多年来，工程师们在此基础上还开发出了很多其它产品，比如各种各样的线圈生产、线圈卷入、绕线头制作以及线槽绝缘机床等。2016 年，DMG meccanica 的员工人数为四十人， 总营业额达到一千万欧元。其中5%来自意大利本土市场，40% 来自欧盟，55% 来自非欧盟国家。从客户组成来看，知名电动机制造商和汽车工业零配件供应商占 60%。此外，DMG meccanica 尤其在重要的电动汽车市场--中国--占据着强大的市场地位。
DMG meccanica 绕线机
格劳博是交钥匙系统的专业化供应商
汽车工业的创新发展使电动机和电池在技术上步入新时空，电动机的结构设计必须以实现更高功率和效率为目标。而目前所面临的的挑战在于生产非常精准、过程稳定且计时准确的机器和设备，因为如需达到这些性能要求，预设公差范围必须非常小。格劳博作为一家全方位服务商，其产品组合非常广泛，可提供定子、转子和电动机生产领域所需的此类机床。产品种类从单个机床、半自动机床再到全自动完整解决方案，可谓应有尽有。格劳博机床组合覆盖范围极广，涉及电动机的“绕线”和“安装”各个领域，从单个组件的装配到最终产品的电气终检。
电池系统“produced by GROB”
除电动机外，电池系统领域是电动汽车的第二大未来支柱。因此，电池单元的生产和电池系统的可靠安装越来越重要。作为装配技术和自动化领域的专家，格劳博已做好充分准备，致力于成为交钥匙系统供应商，以便也能在电池系统领域提供符合未来需求的、可靠的设备技术。为在电池系统领域满足汽车制造商的要求，需要有款式多样的机床设计。为此，格劳博推出了在充分考虑成本因素的前提下以过程稳定性、精确性和灵活性为焦点的创新型设备设计理念。格劳博技术人员与专家团队通力合作，致力于打造符合未来需求的生产流程，并将为从创意到批量生产的智能理念开发作出重要贡献。在模块装配环节，单个电池单元被加工成一个模块。因为作为汽车中的蓄能器，电池系统在产品、生产技术和安全性方面需满足极高要求，另外鉴于电池单元敏感的化学性质，电池系统需具备极高品质，所以生产线必须实现全自动化和相互联网。最终，生产的成功根本取决于对整个流程的理解和优化。因此，格劳博将在整个价值创造链中为客户提供全程支持。其中所需的技术知识已经部分具备，可从装配技术的类似流程中获取。
燃料电池技术成为格劳博关注焦点
燃料电池技术是电动汽车领域的另一前沿技术。汽车燃料电池驱动的组件装配需要可扩展的生产线和装配线。基于款式多样的产品组合，格劳博可以在车辆电气化的各个研发阶段为客户提供适当解决方案和高品质设备。
迎接未来挑战
尽管汽车驱动技术的改变已经开始，但目前还无法准确预测其发展特征、数量和市场前景。在格劳博和 DMG meccanica合并之后，双方已就项目、技术和进一步开发进行了深入洽谈，并且已经制定出第一批共同报价。因为电动机的生产需要大量专业装配知识，格劳博必须在电动机技术领域寻找一家实力强劲的合作伙伴。通过收购 DMG meccanica，格劳博在此次驱动技术变革中进一步强调成为汽车工业领先且可靠合作伙伴的内在追求，并且其重视程度更甚从前。
意大利都灵 DMG meccanica 的生产车间
GROB ELECTRIC MOBILITY
A new business area for the automotive industry
With the acquisition of the Italian firm DMG meccanica, a leading manufacturer for electric motors, GROB is expanding its electric mobility knowhow. With an enhanced portfolio in the new field of electric mobility, GROB is also a competent service provider and resource for the car-manufacturing industry, and well-positioned for the future.
It is certain that the electric car – with its battery-powered drive and resulting radically different powertrain – will at some point become a mass phenomenon. We will then see a reduction not only in combustion of engines with components such as injection pumps, pistons, camshafts and turbochargers, but also in the classic transmission with its multiplicity of gears, the whole exhaust system and the oil circulation system. For this reason, three years ago GROB began to study the components of the future powertrain. It quickly became apparent that the electric motor in its various forms (synchronous motor, externally excited asynchronous motor and hybrid motor) represents an important element for the future development of machines in mass production. For GROB the philosophy applies that the manufacture of machines for the electric motor is just as important as the manufacture of machines for components of the combustion engine. After analyzing several electric motor technologies, GROB created trend and market analysis and realized that there are existing and brand-new technologies which are in the very early stages of development. It also quickly became clear that for the existing technologies there is a high demand for production systems for mass production in the automotive industry – for example TESLA, Volkswagen and BMW.
GROB and the automotive industry go back a long way
Against the background of automotive transformation and the increasing importance of electric mobility, the number of inquiries fielded by GROB for projects involving electric drives has increased massively. Almost every car manufacturer now has hybrid or purely electrically-powered vehicles in its range, and consequently GROB is currently developing several projects for electric drives in the international automotive industry. All these projects can be carried out at GROB, as it already has many specialists and development engineers working in this field. Working closely with well-known car manufacturers, they have begun advanced development of the vital „electric motor“ and „battery module“ components and analyzed a multitude of technology processes for the manufacture and design of the stators and brought them to further development. GROB is now clearly in a position to take on further large projects as general contractor for the complete powertrain for hybrid or purely electric drives and to provide machines and equipment for electric motors, battery modules and battery packs as well as fuel cells, and to ensureseries production in the future.
Strategically planned entry into e-mobility
Since GROB is one of the few machine tool manufacturers with high competence not only in the field of machining but also in assembly technology, GROB has evaluated its abilities in the field of electrical motors and established that the company can achieve reasonable value creation in the winding technology segment. Established producers of machines for feed technology, mostly based in Japan, Germany and northern Italy, have been studied and analyzed. It soon became apparent that GROB would have either to develop the winding technology itself or buy in the appropriate technologies on the market. After some time it was clear that the company DMG meccanica in Torino was among the top candidates for winding and feed technology. And after initial talks with the management of DMG meccanica it emerged that the technology, experience, quality and above all the human elements of the owners Mauro Marzolla and Marco Debilio were a good fit with the values of GROB. As discussions progressed it was quickly agreed that intensive cooperation culminating in a takeover of DMG meccanica would take place.
A well-known partner in machine and plant engineering for electric motors
Mauro Marzolla and the father of Marco Debilio founded DMG meccanica in 1992 from a spin-off of PAVESI, which at the time was one of the leading Italian providers of winding machines for electric motors. Marzolla and Debilio both brought with them decades of experience in winding technology for electric motors. In the early years, DMG meccanica and PAVESI worked together closely until PAVESI was taken over by DMG meccanica in 2001. Subsequently DMG meccanica enjoyed an extremely successful period during which a range of new technologies and inventions were brought to market. These included both solutions and machines for manufacturing stators for electric motors, alternators and generators, and solutions for highly efficient winding machines. Directly responsible for these technological milestones were the engineers of DMG meccanica, who are among the best in their industry. Following this development, further products were developed over the years, such as various machines for spool manufacturing, spool feeding and winding head forming and slot insulation machines. In 2016, DMG meccanica, with a workforce of forty employees, achieved a turnover of ten million Euro. Five percent was in the home market of Italy, 40 percent in the EU and 55 percent in non-EU countries. 60 percent of the customer portfolio is comprised of well-known electric motor manufacturers and suppliers to the automotive industry. In addition, DMG meccanica is particularly well-represented in the important e-mobility market of China.
Specialized provider of turnkey equipment
GROB’s innovative prowess in the automotive industry has led to the electric motor and battery being pushed forward into a new technological dimension, and to the development of electric motors achieving high power density and efficiency. The challenge is now to manufacture very precise, process-stable and precisely-timed machines and equipment, since very narrow tolerances are vital for achieving efficiency. As a general contractor, GROB offers a wide portfolio of such machines in the field of stator, rotor and electric motor production. The production program ranges from individual semi-automatic machines to fully automated complete solutions. The GROB machine portfolio encompasses a broad spectrum in the field of „winding“ and „assembly“ of electric motors, from the assembly of individual components to the final electrical testing of the finished product.
Battery systems „produced by GROB“
In addition to electric motors, the field of battery systems represents the second most important of the pillars for the future of electric mobility. The production of battery cells and the reliable assembly of battery systems is becoming increasingly important. As a specialist in assembly technology and automation, GROB is ideally positioned as a provider of turnkey equipment to also be capable of providing future-proof and reliable systems engineering in the field of battery systems. To meet the demands of car manufacturers in the field of battery systems, very versatile engineering is required, for which GROB develops new and innovative system concepts focusing on process stability, precision and flexibility, taking cost factors into consideration. With a team of specialists, the GROB technicians work on futureproof production processes and make an important contribution to the development of intelligent concepts from ideas to series production. In module assembly, individual battery cells are processed to form a module. The requirements for battery systems as energy storage systems are tremendously high in terms of product, production technology and safety, and optimal quality is demanded in view of the delicate cell chemistry, so production ines must be fully automated and interlinked. But at the end of the day, the success of production is largely dependent upon understanding and optimization of the overall process. For this reason, GROB offers support to its customers at all stages of the value-added chain. The technical know-how needed for this is partly drawn from similar processes in assembly technology.
Focusing on fuel cell technology
Fuel cell technology represents a further promising technology within electric mobility. Scalable production and assembly lines are required for the assembly of components of the vehicle fuel cell drive. Based on its varied product portfolio, GROB develops suitable solutions with high quality equipment for customers at various stages of development of electrifying their vehicles.
Meeting the challenges of the future
Although the changes in vehicle drive technology have already begun, their forms, numbers and markets cannot be accurately predicted as yet. However, immediately following the merger of GROB and DMG meccanica, intensive talks were started for projects, technologies and further developments and the first joint bids have already been worked out. Since the production of electric motors demands special assembly know-how, it was logical for GROB to seek a competent partner from the field of electric motor technology. Its takeover of DMG meccanica enables GROB to emphasize more than ever its claim in drive technology to be a leading and reliable partner for the automotive industry.
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