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The 2024 ceremony was streamed from Valetta, a city in Malta that blends tradition and innovation. Hosts Filomena Cautela and Jacob Beautemps took viewers on a thrilling journey into the world of the Tomorrow Shapers: inventors whose perseverance and ingenuity are paving the way to a brighter future.

2024年的颁奖典礼在马耳他瓦莱塔举行，这座城市融合了传统与创新。主持人Filomena Cautela和Jacob Beautemps带领观众们踏上了一段激动人心的旅程，进入了明日塑造者的世界:这些发明家的毅力和创造力正在为更光明的未来铺平道路。

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Fiorenzo Dioni 和 Richard Oberle

High-precision aluminium casting for the automotive industry

汽车工业的高精度铝铸件

The Giga Press is a high-pressure die-casting machine with the potential to transform the automotive industry, developed by engineers Fiorenzo Dioni and Richard Oberle. Developed for electric-vehicle production, the press helps to reduce the waste, energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with automotive manufacturing.

Giga Press压铸机是一种高压压铸机，具有改变汽车行业的潜力，由工程师Fiorenzo Dioni和Richard Oberle开发。该压铸机专为电动汽车生产而开发，有助于减少与汽车制造相关的浪费、能源消耗和碳排放。

Winners of the European Inventor Award 2024

2024年欧洲发明家奖得主

Traditional methods of vehicle production require assembling large car underbodies from dozens of individual castings. The Giga Press, the world's largest high-pressure aluminium die-casting machine, a paradigm shift in production capability and speed, streamlines the complex process by producing just two to three large castings that make up the underbody of a car.

传统的汽车生产方法需要用几十个单独的铸件组装大型汽车底盘。Giga Press压铸机是世界上最大的高压铝压铸机，在生产能力和速度上实现了范式转变，它简化了复杂的工艺，只生产两到三个大型铸件，就可以构成一辆汽车的底盘。

Aluminium is melted and maintained in a molten state across the machine's ovens. As the Giga Press clamps the mould in place, the patented 5S (Strong, Simple, Stable, Smooth and Sustainable) injection system fills the mould with over 100 kilograms of molten aluminium evenly at ten metres per second. A 4000-litre vacuum tank pumps out air bubbles, solving a common issue of tiny gas bubbles within the castings. As the metal cools and solidifies, the casting is set, trimmed and internally and externally examined for defects using X-rays and computer software. This can be repeated every 120 seconds to create 500 castings across three eight-hour shifts.

铝被熔化，并在机器的烤箱中保持熔融状态。当Giga Press压铸机将模具夹紧到位时，专利的5S(坚固、简单、稳定、平滑和可持续)注射系统以每秒10米的速度将超过100公斤的熔融铝均匀地填充到模具中。一个4000升的真空罐抽出气泡，解决了铸件中微小气泡的常见问题。当金属冷却并凝固时，铸件就会被固定、修整，并使用x射线和计算机软件检查内部和外部的缺陷。这可以每120秒重复一次，在三个8小时轮班中制造500个铸件。

Driving a sustainable future

推动可持续发展的未来

Fiorenzo Dioni has been integral to IDRA since joining as an engineer in 1995, becoming its head of engineering in 2009 and starting work on the Giga Press in 2016. Richard Oberle, who joined IDRA in the 1970s and returned as a consultant in 2016, contributed the 5S injection system, which reintegrates the hydraulic fluid into the system to reduce discharge and waste as it is essential to ensuring the die pieces are clamped together when being filled. Recent enhancements to the Giga Press have reduced its waste and energy consumption, carbon emissions and help to create a more consistent final product that costs less to produce. The Giga Press also recycles aluminium trimmings and cutoffs, which are added back into the melting oven to continue the streamlined process.

Fiorenzo Dioni自1995年加入IDRA担任工程师以来一直是IDRA不可或缺的一部分，2009年成为其工程主管，并于2016年开始做Giga Press压铸机的相关工作。Richard Oberle于20世纪70年代加入IDRA，并于2016年以顾问身份回归，他贡献了5S喷射系统，该系统将液压流体重新整合到系统中，以减少排放和浪费，因为它对于确保模具件在填充时夹紧在一起至关重要。最近对Giga Press压铸机的改进减少了浪费和能源消耗，减少了碳排放，并有助于创造更一致的最终产品，降低了生产成本。Giga Press压铸机还能回收铝边角料和边角料，这些边角料被添加回熔化炉中，可以继续简化工艺。

The Giga Press has helped forge broader innovation in the automotive industry. Dioni notes that IDRA's competitors "are sailing close to the mark", with brands rethinking traditional approaches to vehicle production. While the press was developed to meet demand in electric vehicle manufacturing, Dioni adds, "When it comes to producing the structural parts of the car, the Giga Press can produce them for both electric and gasoline-powered cars without any issues."

Giga Press压铸机在汽车行业推动了更广泛的创新。Dioni指出，IDRA的竞争对手“正在接近目标”，各大品牌正在重新思考传统的汽车生产方式。虽然Giga Press压铸机是为了满足电动汽车制造的需求而开发的，Dioni补充道：“在生产汽车的结构部件方面，Giga Press压铸机可以为电车和油车生产结构部件，没有任何问题。”

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