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7:00 AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM - Opening Address
8:20 AM - Keynote Presentation
Permanent Magnetic Materials - Global Supply and Demand, Trends and Forecast
The softening of the global economy has certainly had an effect on the production of permanent magnetics materials and there are competing technologies that may begin to change the landscape of the industry. But the overall outlook for the global permanent magnet industry is bright. The driving forces will be an increase in consumption by emerging economies and the global trend toward energy conservation and efficiency. This presentation will look at each of the various permanent magnetic materials and will discuss historic, current and forecasted production volumes. Trends, threats, opportunities and raw materials will be examined.
Terry Clagett, President • WebMagnetics, Inc.
9:10 AM - Featured Presentation Six Sigma in Magnetic Manufacturing
The concept of Six Sigma has become industry standard for defining quality of products and services. Magnetic devices being the heart of the power electronic system performance, customers not only expect, but demand, Six Sigma quality.
Magnetic manufacturing processes greatly contribute to the quality of magnetic devices. Understanding the Six Sigma concepts and the implementation methodology would help 'build-in' the desired Six Sigma quality into the magnetic devices. The 'what', 'why' and 'how to' Six Sigma in magnetic manufacturing will be presented.
Benefit from the presenter's hands-on experience to grasp the seemingly complex methodology of Six Sigma in easy to understand expressions. Actual case histories will be presented highlighting the methodology used and results achieved.
Samir R. Kagalwala, Chief Consultant • Power Magnetic Consultancy
10:00 AM - Networking Break/ Product Demos in Exhibit Hall
11:00 AM - Breakout Sessions A New Generation of Contactless Magnetic Position Sensors
Discover a new generation of position sensors using recently developed hall probes, which measure the angle of the magnetic field, but not the amplitude as it did in previous decades. The magnetic flux can be generated by a diametrically magnetized ring magnet, with a focus on through shaft 360° angular sensors or by a specific sinusoidal magnetization for linear and short stroke angular sensors. In the last two cases, dedicated magnetization heads are necessary to get a linear variation of the magnetic field direction along the magnet stroke. Learn how your company can benefit from using these new position sensors.
Gerald Masson, Sensor Unit Manager • Moving Magnet Technologies SA Magnetic Refrigeration Regenerator Materials
The successful introduction of magnetic refrigeration into the market place equally depends on the design of the magnetic refrigerator and on the magnetocaloric properties of the magnetic refrigerant. This presentation will be focused on the latter. Viable magnetic refrigerant materials are those which order ferromagnetically and have a large magnetic entropy associated with the ordering process, which may be second or first order. Most ferromagnets exhibit a second order transition, which takes place over a wide temperature range (e.g. Gd). A few ferromagnets undergo a first order transition which leads to a large entropy change over a narrow temperature range. In the past few years a great deal of effort has been devoted to near room temperature, first order ferromagnets: Gd5(Si1-xGex)4, RMnO3, La(Fe1-xSix)13, MnAs, FeMnPAs and Ni2MnGa. The properties of these six potential magnetic refrigerants will be discussed and compared to those of the Gd prototype.
Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., Distinguished Professor • Ames Laboratory
Department of Materials Science and Engineering •
Iowa State University
11:40 AM - Breakout Sessions Ultra High Precision Fluxmeters: Overview and Recent Developments
Fluxmeters are amongst the oldest magnetometers. The magnetics industry knows them mostly as a way of measuring flux density inside a piece of magnetic material. Most industrial users are not aware that very high-precision coils and integrators are also used for high-precision magnetic field mapping. These techniques have been the specialty of accelerator labs such as Fermilab and the CERN; for example, the thousands of magnets for the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were all mapped using this technique, with a precision of better than 10 parts per million. Now, a new generation of integrators, with dramatically improved speed and dynamic range, has been developed to study low-level dynamic effects. Learn how these techniques, such as to study eddy current effects, are accessible to industrial users.
Philip Keller, Marketing & Product Management • Metrolab Technology Development of Improved Powder for Bonded Permanent Magnets
To meet performance and cost goals for advanced electric drive motors, it is essential to improve the alloy design and processing of permanent magnet powders. Two primary objectives for permanent magnet material are to increase the useful operating temperature for magnets from 120-150°C to 200°C and to enhance the oxidation/corrosion resistance of the resulting powders. These developments should enable a transition from sintered magnets to bonded magnets that use a high temperature polymeric matrix. The planned improvements in materials and processing can permit effective high volume, net shape manufacturing of bonded magnets by gas atomization and injection or compression molding. Nanocrystalline hard magnets with multi-rare earth elements are of interest for their high temperature performance over 200°C. Newly developed MRE2(Fe,Co)14B nanocrystalline hard magnetic alloy with ZrC addition have an unexpectedly high coercivity relative to their grain size compared to the Nd-based alloys.
William McCallum, Senior Materials Scientist • Ames Laboratory
USDOE • Iowa State University
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM - Networking Luncheon & Round Table Discussions
* Seating is limited for Round Table Discussions.
If interested in participating, sign-up sheets will be available at the Registration desk.
Establishing Fully Dense Permanent Magnet Production in the US
This roundtable discussion will cover:
- The heightened vulnerability of clean energy technology due to the decreasing availability of rare earth materials from China
- The permanent magnet supply chain capability gap in the US prevents us from addressing this vulnerability
- Molycorp's plans to establish a domestic rare earth magnet supply chain from Mine to Magnets
- The major issues facing any effort to establish a domestic rare earth magnet supply chain from Mine to Magnets
Roundtable Moderator: Mark Smith, President and CEO • Molycorp Minerals LLC
1:30 PM - Breakout Sessions Energy Savings with Thin Gauge for Motors, Generators, Transformers and Inductors
Approximately 57 percent of generated electric energy in the US is consumed by industrial electric motors. Several percent more is consumed in the transmission lines and transformers distributing this energy. The US now has the largest installed base of wind power generation in the world. Motors, generators, transformers and inductors are being designed to be more energy efficient by utilizing thin gauge Iron-Silicon. Heat build-up in electrical devices is symptomatic of eddy current and hysteretic losses and requires strategies for minimization of losses and for removal of heat. Some old and many new applications take advantage of thin gauge laminations, both unoriented and oriented, to achieve these benefits. Learn how thin gauge proves beneficial for each application and what is the optimum lamination thickness.
Steve Constantinides, Director of Technology •
Arnold Magnetic Technologies Corp. Building Nanocomposite Magnets with Novel Approaches
Theoretic calculations have predicted very high energy products for exchange-coupled hard/soft nanocomposite magnets. However, there are still several technical barriers en route to achieve the high energy products. One of the key issues is to control grain size of the hard and soft phases. A bottom-up approach has been adopted recently to produce bulk nanocomposite magnets which involves synthesis of ferromagnetic nanoparticles and compaction of the nanoparticles. By applying newly developed salt-matrix annealing and surfactant-assisted milling techniques, monodisperse ferromagnetic FePt, FeCo and SmCo nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized. These first-ever-available nanoparticles display various hard and soft magnetic properties at room temperature, which are found to be strongly size dependent. Remarkably enhanced energy products have been achieved in the bulk nanocomposite magnets prepared via the novel approaches.
J.P. Liu, Associate Professor • University of Texas at Arlington
2:10 PM - Breakout Sessions Rare Earth Resources for Nd Magnets – Their Present and Future
With demand for neodymium magnet production increasing rapidly, the present global situation regarding availability of rare-earth resources and future development are key. Discover how increased demand creates issues including present sources of supply, processing infrastructure, global ore deposits, who controls production of rare-earth elements, along with the search for new deposits and their development.
Takehisa Minowa, Director R&D • Shin-Etsu Chemical Company,
Magnet Department The Application of Toroidal Functions in Electromagnetics
Hear examples of the application of toroidal harmonics for analyzing cylindrical domain-oriented permanent magnets. Learn about the application of toroidal harmonics for studying the inherent imbalance in permanent magnet motors. A real six-pole permanent magnet motor will be used as a specific example in the application of toroidal harmonics for characterizing the motor’s imbalance. Learn how to develop a multipole expansion of the motors exterior magnetic field. This multipole expansion can then be used for determining various imbalances, which are always introduced during the manufacturing process. These may include magnetization imbalances, axial imbalances and rotor eccentricities.
Jerry Selvaggi, Research Scientist • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:50 PM - Networking Break/ Product Demos in Exhibit Hall
3:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
Application Trends in Bonded NdFeB
The trend toward higher efficiency motors in general and toward smaller, lighter weight motors in the automotive industry is creating increased demand for bonded NdFeB (Neo). Bonded Neo magnets can replace ceramic ferrite material and result in a motor of similar performance that is much smaller and much lighter. In many cases the total raw material cost for the Bonded Neo motor is less than that for the ferrite motor. Case studies will be presented with data gathered from the testing of actual motors in the laboratory and from FEA modeling. The performance of bonded Neo at 150°C and above will also be discussed.
David Miller, Director, Research and Development • Magnequench Rayleigh-Benard Instability in a Chemically Reacting
Ferromagnetic Liquid
The onset of convective instabilities in ferromagnetic chemically reactive fluids affected by buoyancy and a pondermotive force due to magnetization is investigated. Mechanisms of augmenting/suppressing convection are studied. The effect of chemical reactions is to enhance the onset of free convection whereas the ferrofluid dampens it. Chemically reacting flows feature prominently in the majority of energy conversion and propulsion systems. Additionally, reacting flows have become increasingly important in manufacture processes and material synthesis, where they are applied to transform material properties and fabricate new macro, micro and nano structures for a wide range of applications including semiconductors and optoelectronics.
Dr. Annamma Abraham, Department of Mathematics •
R.V. College of Engineering, India
4:30 PM - Breakout Sessions
Outsourcing Magnetic Assembly Manufacturing in China – Challenges and Pitfalls
Rising manufacturing costs of magnetic assemblies in the USA is forcing US companies to outsource this critical function abroad, mostly to China. Although great savings are achievable, US companies face many difficulties with the Chinese manufacturing culture, from sourcing raw materials and certifying parts quality to production process QC and delivery schedules. Language and localization issues aside, US companies face a strong cultural resistance to accepted practices in the West.
Attend this session to examine the challenges of securing a capable manufacturer and realistic expectations to have of your manufacturer. Learn about benchmarking vs creative culture; sample vs mass production; partner training; delivery performance metrics; aftercare responsiveness and availability; and product protection policies. Benefit from hands-on, real world experience and avoid the pitfalls. Gain an insight into the best practices for outsourcing magnetic assembly in China.
John Ebert, Business Manager • Yunsheng USA
The Magnetics Recording Industry: In Pursuit of Revolutions -- NEW!
Revolutionary inventions in the last decades have enabled the manufacturing of inexpensive magnetic disc drives, low-cost devices with properties such that even computing centers did not have in the 1980s. To perpetuate the gains in storage capacity, the magnetic storage industry is in pursuit of “planned revolutions.” The revolutionary technologies being developed are discrete track recording, bit-patterned magnetic media, schemes of energy-assisted (heat, microwave) magnetic recording, and “current-perpendicular-to-plane” GMR heads. The lecture features the technologies that could re-ignite quantum leaps in magnetic storage, and will also discuss potential consequences for the disc drive architecture and the magnetic recording industry.
Ed Murdock, Ph.D., President • ESM Consulting
5:00 PM - Cocktail Reception in Exhibit Hall |
