The Giga Press program is a series of aluminium die casting machines manufactured for Tesla, initially by Idra Group in Italy. Idra presses were the largest high-pressure die casting machines in production as of 2020, with a clamping force of 55,000 to 61,000 kilonewtons (5,600 to 6,200 tf).[2][3] Each machine weighs 410–430 tonnes (900,000–950,000 lb).[2][3]
| Giga Press | |
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 Die Casting Machine #2 at Tesla Factory, Fremont, 2020 | |
| Classification | High-pressure die-casting (HPDC) |
| Industry | Metal casting |
| Application | Car chassis production |
| Dimensions | 19.5 m × 5.9 m × 5.3 m 64 by 19 by 17 feet |
| Weight | 410–430 tonnes 900,000–950,000 lb |
| Fuel source | Electric |
| Powered | |
| Invented | ~2018 |
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Base specification Giga Press machines were included in Idra's catalogue in 2018.[4] Tesla began using a custom OL 6100 CS Giga Press in late-2020 for integrated die-casting production of chassis parts for the Tesla Model Y.[5]
Shots of molten aluminium weighing 80 kilograms (180 lb) are injected into the cold-chamber casting mold with a velocity of 10 metres per second (22 mph; 36 km/h).[6] The cycle time is ~80–90 seconds,[2] allowing an initial output rate of 40‒45 completed castings per hour, or ~1,000 castings per day.
Operation
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Die casting works by forcing molten metal alloy inside a reusable mold, then opening the mold to remove the finished piece after it cools and solidifies. The opened mold is cooled to 185 °C (365 °F) and cleaned by robots, and fresh molten aluminium is prepared for the next cycle to begin 1‒2 minutes after the first cycle. Each fresh casting is trimmed to approximate size, measured, checked for imperfections, and sent for CNC machining to finished size.[7]
Ingots and off-cuts of aluminium are melted in a natural gas-powered melting oven operating at 850 °C (1,600 °F), until liquid. Slag in the form of aluminium oxide is mechanically removed from the surface, and the rest of the liquid metal is pumped through heated pipes to an enclosed warming oven operating at 750–850 °C (1,400–1,600 °F), heated using 400 kilowatts (0.4 MW) of electrical power. To prevent the formation of oxides, a tank blanket of nitrogen gas covers the molten aluminium, which is circulated to maintain an even temperature. Argon gas and a rotary-degasser are used to remove impurities, with a silicon carbide filter removing most other particles larger than 25 micrometres (1 thou).[7]
At the beginning of each casting cycle robots spray 35 millilitres (1.2 imp fl oz; 1.2 US fl oz) of soybean oil in a thin layer inside each half of the mold to allow separation. The mold is closed, and a low vacuum of 50 millibars (50 hPa) created by pumping the air out. A precise amount of molten metal is pumped from the holding oven into the casting chamber at 750 °C (1,400 °F), and forced into the mold using a high-speed plunger with an additional 8 millilitres (0.28 imp fl oz; 0.27 US fl oz) of lubricant. The mold is opened, and the raw casting removed at 400 °C (750 °F).[citation needed]
A robot reaches in and removes the casting, placing it in a quenching tank to reduce the temperature from 400 to 50 °C (750 to 120 °F). A mechanical trim press cuts the approximate edges, recycling excess aluminium into the melting oven. The remaining useful part of the casting is X-rayed to check its internal structure, trimmed by laser, drilled for fittings, and then computer-measured for precision.[7]
Die structure
editTesla's Model Y rear casting dies have four known visible parts:[8][9]
- two large classic main facing dies, oriented vertically with injection from the bottom of the immobile one.
- two smaller side wedging dies, moving in for injection and out for removal.
The front casting suggests an identical die layout, with a possible fifth wedging die underneath (process) for the front-facing (car) crash rail mount.[10]
Metal alloy
editSandy Munro analysed a Model Y casting in 2021 and reported that the casting aluminium alloy used in the large Tesla chassis parts is primarily an aluminium 89.5%‒silicon 8.5% mix, plus several other trace elements, falling within the categorisation of aluminium Association alloy "AA 386":
| Element | Name | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Al | Aluminium | 89.482% |
| Si | Silicon | 8.525% |
| Cu | Copper | 0.790% |
| Mn | Manganese | 0.455% |
| Fe | Iron | 0.277% |
| Mg | Magnesium | 0.075% |
| Zn | Zinc | 0.020% |
| V | Vanadium | 0.015% |
| Ti | Titanium | 0.013% |
| Ni | Nickel | 0.009% |
| Zr | Zirconium | 0.005% |
| Pb | Lead | 0.004% |
| Sb | Antimony | 0.000% |
Components
editVacuum inside the closed mold is achieved using a 4,000-litre tank made by Fondarex in Switzerland.[12]
Molten metal is pumped through heated pipes, and rotary degassing is performed to reduce porosity.[13]
Steps and machinery involved: [citation needed]
- StrikoMelter Melting and Holding Furnace (850 °C, 1,560 °F)
- Holding oven (~750–850 °C, 1,380–1,560 °F)
- Giga Press ("DCM"‒Die-casting machine)
- Quench oil tank
- Mechanical trim press
- X-Ray machine (porosity check)
- Plasma arc trimming.
- Drill and tap (machining)
- Laser scanning (coordinate-measuring machine, CMM)
- Fastener insertion
- Scrap metal shredder (immediate closed loop recycling of aluminium offcuts)
- Vacuum system
History
editTesla
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In 2019 Jerome Guillen indicated that Tesla Automation were working on a "giant, giant, giant machine" to "make full-size cars in the same way that toy cars are made".[14]
With our giant casting machines, we are literally trying to make full-size cars in the same way that toy cars are made
In April 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla had purchased the two biggest casting machines in the world to cast the Tesla Model Y rear chassis and crash rails.[16][17] In January 2021, Musk stated that the rear chassis of the Tesla Cybertruck would be produced using a casting machine larger than 8,000-tonne-force (80,000 kN).[18][verification needed]
As of October 2021, Tesla had five casting machines installed at Giga Shanghai, two machines installed at Tesla Factory in Fremont, two machines installed at Giga Berlin, and two machines going into Giga Texas—plus foundations in preparation for many additional Giga Press machines.[citation needed]
During May/June 2022, Idra were assembling a 9,000 tonnes-force (88,000 kN) Giga Press.[where?][19] As of December 2023[update], two 9,000 ton presses were available at GigaTexas to cast Cybertruck rears, while Cybertruck front castings are cast on a 6500-ton press that is shared for casting Model Y frames. Total GigaPresses at Texas were two 9,000 ton plus four of the smaller presses.[20]
Fremont
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In June 2020, permits for foundations to support the Giga Press at Fremont were issued[f 1][f 2] with Tesla filing permit applications for construction work in preparation for Die-Casting Machine #2 (DCM2) in July 2022.[f 3][f 4] During September 2020 DCM1 started producing trial runs of Model Y castings and DCM2 had been installed.[21]
On 11 March 2021, one of the Fremont presses suffered a fire, caused by molten aluminium igniting hydraulic fluid. No injuries were reported.[22]
Germany
editAs of July 2020[update] plans for Giga Berlin included eight 6,100-tonne-force (60,000 kN) die casting machines.[23][24] (Located at 52°23′49″N 13°47′35″E / 52.397°N 13.793°E.)
European Model Y cars have front and rear cast chassis sections.[25] The first two European Giga Press machines were planned to be delivered to Giga Berlin by the start of 2021.[12]
Shanghai
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By October 2020, three locally-made LK Machinery Impress-Plus DCC6000 machines were undergoing assembly for Model Y production.[26] (Located at 30°52′19″N 121°46′19″E / 30.872°N 121.772°E.) As of October 2021, five machines were available.[27]
Texas
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For Tesla Model Y car production at Giga Texas beginning in 2022, Tesla began to deploy a single-piece front in addition to the existing single-piece rear casting.[28]
During the night of 18/19 January 2021, concrete foundations for three Giga Press machines were poured at the Giga Texas factory location near Austin, Texas.[29][30] (30°13′12″N 97°37′01″W / 30.22°N 97.617°W)
On 21 January 2021 the first Giga Press components started to arrive on site.[31][32][33]
As of 2 February 2021[update], all major components of the first Giga Press at the Austin site had been craned into place.[34]
On 15 April 2021, components for a second Giga Press started arriving at Giga Texas.[35]
Glovitech
editLK Technology delivered one Impress-Plus DCC 6000 machine for Glovitech of South Korea, installed in the Vân Trung Industrial Zone, Việt Yên, Bắc Giang Province, Vietnam.[36] The machine is used for producing large Faraday cages (radio-frequency enclosures) for 5G mobile base stations.[36] The machine was delivered in December 2020, and produced its first castings in March 2021.[37]
Japan
editIn June 2023 Toyota announced that it was adopting casting technology for its electric vehicles.[38]
In 2023 Japanese auto parts supplier Ryobi announced plans to cast large electric-vehicle body parts and expects to reduce car body manufacturing costs by 20%.[39]
Volvo
editBy November 2023, orders had been placed for two 9000-tonnes-force Giga Press machines for a new Volvo electric vehicle factory at Košice, Slovakia.[40]
2.0
editIn September 2023 Tesla was reported to be considering a single-piece casting for entire underbody of its to-be-announced "small car", an easier task than single-casting their existing, larger models. This required learning how to use larger Giga Press machines, reduce mold design costs, and incorporate hollow subframes. Key innovations include using 3D printing to make cast prototypes with industrial sand.[41]
Making a large metal cast can cost $1.5 million. Typically, multiple iterations and tweaks are required, at great expense.[41]
Binder jet printers build casts out of layers of sand stabilized with a liquid binder at a fraction of the cost of using metal and in a fraction of the time. Hollow elements are created after the cast is made by removing sections of sand added during the casting. Parts cast in sand molds require different aluminium alloys and post-cast processing to meet safety and other requirements. Production casting would continue to use metal casts.[41]
The press would need clamping power of 16,000 tons or more, among the largest in existence (but significantly smaller than the 30,000 ton and 50,000 ton presses operated by Russia and USA). This pressure might prevent the use of sand to make hollows. A different type of press would inject molten alloy more slowly that would allow sand cores and produce higher quality castings, although at a slower pace.[41]
In May 2024 Tesla was reported to have put on hold their plans for single-piece casting, and are sticking with three-piece casting on their current lineup as a result of their sales and profits falling.[42]
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OL 5500 CS … Pumps motors power: kW 2x132
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Clamping force: kN 55.000; Ton 5.607 … Tie bar spacing: mm 2300x2300 … Tie bar diameter mm 450 … Max. shot weight (Al alloy): kg 84 … Dry Cycles (as per DIN 24480) n/1' 1,5 … Pumps motors power; kW 4x90 … Machine weight: Ton 410 … Machine dimensions (LxWxH): m 19.2x6.9 [sic]x5.22
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Fondarex … vacuum systems Modular Cell 6C 4000 liter tank [built] in our workshop in St-Légier – Switzerland, now equip the first 6 Giga Presses in the world … with 6 fully independent vacuum channels connected to the die and setting one channel dedicated to the shot sleeve. … evacuation capacity of this vacuum system allows the production of large structural castings … [Idra] … two Giga Presses in production … and we will be delivering another two machines before the end of 2020 into Europe. This will be followed by an additional eight machines in 2021 for the production of underbody castings. … 20th of August [2020] the first batch of mega castings were produced thanks to the new patented Idra 5S injection system.
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creation of closed-loop systems in which alloys can be recycled and repurposed for a consistent application, almost infinitely. … reduce the total number of parts needed for vehicle assembly … over 70 parts were eliminated from the overall assembly. … new project at a large, California-based OEM of electric vehicles. … 105 kgs of molten aluminum … delivered in each shot. … solution requires a pump that can deliver this amount of metal to the diecasting machine. A second MMEI pump … is used to measure the biscuit after each dose … In testing … 4 seconds delivery time, … in production 7-8 seconds is the rate. … proprietary heated-launder piping that maintains constant metal temperature throughout the process. … incorporated a rotary degasser into the system to ensure the highest degree of metal quality and to prevent any porosity from getting into the part.
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building a giant machine using Tesla's Grohmann sub-division, … emphasized that it was a "giant, giant, giant machine" that duplicates everything, is modular, is simple on the modular level, and … is gigantic.
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The current version of the Model Y has basically two big high pressure die casting aluminium castings that are joined, then there are still a bunch of other bits that are attached. And then later this year we will transition to the rear underbody being a single-piece casting that also integrates the rear crash rails. … It gets better: the current castings—because they have to interface to so many things—we have to CNC machine them; CNC the interfaces … the single-piece casting has no CNC machining; it doesn't even have datums. … (10:36) It does require the world's biggest casting machine, which we have two off. Basically around a 6,000-tonne casting machine—the size of a small house basically. One coming from Italy, and one coming from China. We should be starting to set up the one from Italy, … next month. … about a 30% reduction in the size of the body shop … (12:59) going back and retro-fitting the Model 3 production at Fremont with a single-piece casting—it might be something we'd do, but it would probably in two years or something like that…
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IDRA shared a photo of the 9,000 ton Giga Press … with an employee standing in front of it. If the employee is about 6 feet tall, we estimate the machine is close to 25 feet tall. … currently being assembled at their facility in Travagliato, Italy
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electric car maker has begun to test the production of the Model Y's single-piece rear casts. … deploying … a second "Giga Press" machine on the grounds of the Fremont factory. … two of these machines in the Fremont Factory, and one is already producing … single-piece casts for the Model Y's rear subframe. … Gigafactory Shanghai also receiving a "Giga Press" for its Model Y production … Giga Berlin will deploy a whopping eight "Giga Presses" for its operations.
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Nr.: A002-00 … Betriebseinheit: Gießerei (Casting) … Machine Nr.: A002-00-0x-04 … 8 x Die Cast Machine (DCM, Druckgussmaschine) … 6100 [tonnes·force] … Stärke t … N
- ^ Taylor, Edward; Lienert, Paul (8 September 2020). Potter, Mark (ed.). "Move aside robots, Tesla bets on aluminium casting". Reuters. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
for Tesla's new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminium casting machines to build simpler chassis parts … new plant in Brandenburg, near Berlin, would be supplied with eight "Gigapress" machines. … Injecting molten aluminium into a cast and having robots pull out the moulded metal allows Tesla to combine several manufacturing steps. … reduced the rear underbody to two parts, forming the largest piece of aluminium that Munro has seen in 30 years
- ^ Mattke, Sascha, ed. (18 September 2020). "Exklusiv: Tesla will bei deutschem Model Y vorderes Rahmen-Teil an einem Stück gießen" [Exclusive: Tesla wants to cast the front frame part in one piece for German Model Y]. TeslaMag (in German). Germany. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
Woche Evan Horetsky, bei Tesla verantwortlich für den Bau der deutschen Gigafactory … geht Tesla in Grünheide damit aber trotzdem: Auch der vordere Teil des Rahmens für das Model Y werde dort im Guss-Verfahren entstehen, sagte Horetsky. … erklärte aber, der Front-Rahmen des deutschen Model Y werde wie bald das Heck in Fremont aus einem Stück gegossen. … eine oder maximal zwei der Giga-Pressen. Auf die Frage, warum dann in Grünheide gleich acht davon vorgesehen sind, sagte Horetsky, Tesla wolle dort eben sehr schnell sehr viele Teile gießen können.
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It's a revolution in car manufacturing to basically make a car out of three major parts: a cast rear, a structural pack, and a cast front. What you are looking are the biggest casting machines ever made. It's kind of a crazy thing to make a car this way, it has never been done before. When we were trying to figure this out, there were six major casting manufacturers in the world: we called six, five said 'no', one said 'maybe' … that sounds like a 'yes'. … It was a lot of effort and great ideas from the team—we've made the world's biggest casting machine work very efficiently to create, and radically simplify the manufacturing of the car.
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Vietnam factory. The 6000T die-casting machine … clamping force of more than 60,000KN. … South Korea's Glovitech company. … Glovitech's factory in Van trung industrial zone, Việt Yên, to produce 5G tele-communication base station (RF unit) housing products. Glovitech mentioned that it has successfully achieved the world's first ultra-large 5G RF unit housing production.
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1 set of 4,000-ton and 1 set of 6,000-ton … December 2020, arrived at the Glovitech Vietnam factory … In March 2021, … 5G RF unit housing was successfully produced.
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contract by Volvo Cars to install two 9,000 tons GigaPress machines at a greenfield site in Košice
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Fremont permits
edit- ^ Molinar, Robert; Tesla (11 June 2020). "(Elec) Tesla F20-0048 DCM Foundations". Permitting (building permit application). No. BLD2020-06344. City of Fremont.
Die cast machine support skid. … $517.00 paid
- ^ Molinar, Robert; Tesla (3 August 2020). "F20-0048-M DCM Tool Anchorage". Permitting (building permit application). No. BLD2021-00972. City of Fremont.
F20-0048-M DCM1 Tool Anchorage
- ^ Molinar, Robert; Tesla (9 July 2020). "F20-0048-F DCM2 Arch & MEP". Permitting (building permit application). No. BLD2021-00297. City of Fremont. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
process cooling water & natural gas piping distribution design from existing ab utility mains to new casting area outside. … new trade waste piping from the tie point inside the building to DCM2 area with pipes, pumps & accessories.
- ^ Molinar, Robert; Tesla (16 July 2020). "F20-0048-J Foundations #2". Permitting (building permit application). No. BLD2021-00494. City of Fremont.
Foundations for #2
External links
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- "Gigapress die-casting machine". Idra.
- Idra Introduces Idra OL 5500 CS (stock footage). Intro Idra Group. Idra Group. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2020 – via Youtube.
Idra Introduces Idra OL 5500 CS … perfect die casting machine for structure parts … think big … first production Giga Press sold … welcome to the future … welcome to the Giga Press
- "IDRA Giga Press #3" (factory assembly timelapse). October 2020 – via Youtube.
- Musk, Elon; Baglino, Drew (22 September 2020). Model Y Giga Casting. 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day (offset 1:20:53). Tesla, Inc. – via Youtube.
[Elon Musk] single-piece casting for the front body and the rear body … we commissioned the largest casting machine that has ever been made, and it's currently working just over the road at our Fremont plant … our own alloy, because we wanted a high-strength casting alloy that did not require coatings or heat treatment. … interfaces to what we call the "structural battery" … filler that is a structural adhesive, as well as flame retardant, it effectively glues the cells to the upper and lower sheet … honeycomb sandwich with two basesheets … [Drew Baglino] worth another 7% dollars-per-kilowatt∙hour level reduction at the battery pack level
- Tesla [@tesla] (5 February 2021). "World's biggest die casting machine … It can cast front & rear vehicle underbodies in a single piece each — down from 70+ parts for same sections previously" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 February 2021 – via Twitter.