ENNOVI’s leadership throughout six decades of solving dynamically changing challenges in the automotive industry, such as the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), is grounded in our core commitment to hiring the best talent and fostering a collaborative environment that enables them to innovate and deliver the best for our customers.
In parallel, ENNOVI’s holistic approach to building in sustainability to all our products, processes, materials choices, and extensible designs underscores our commitment to both the long-term success of our customers and to enhancing future quality of life throughout the world.
Everything Starts with Our People
We have always been committed to hiring the best talent with deep and relevant domain knowledge in mechanical, electrical and process engineering, along with our corporate commitment to continue pushing the leading edge with new technologies and product innovations.
By creating a dynamic, collaborative and inclusive culture that encourages continuous learning, professional growth, and a sense of purpose, ENNOVI empowers employees to collaborate with other team members to break new ground and create world-changing results.
As part of the ENNOVI family, employees experience the excitement of being at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies and contributing to a sustainable future.
Teamwork is the Key to Success
Success in designing and delivering innovative solutions for the automotive sector is inherently a “team sport”. The multi-disciplinary challenges of creating complex electromechanical solutions for new electric and hybrid vehicles requires end-to-end collaboration from ideation through design and ramp-up to full production.
At ENNOVI, we proactively foster deep collaboration between our domain experts to overcome traditional limitations in perspective that may exist within any specific knowledge domain. We are not necessarily looking for an elegant mechanical solution or electrical solution; but rather we are focused on the best solution to meet the customer’s needs over the life of their product offering.
Communication is the Lifeblood of Driving Results
Of course, our commitment to teamwork is not just internally focused. Experience across hundreds of projects underscores the importance of also fostering deep end-to-end collaboration with our customers’ design teams and product managers.
From initial requests for information (RFIs) to establishment of design goals, ideation sessions, prototyping, qualification testing, and ramp up to volume production, the ENNOVI team maintains a high level of cross-communication and agile adaptation – with a constant focus on delivering the best end results – on time and on budget.
By leveraging our global reach and local footprints, the ENNOVI teams streamline and personalize collaboration between our internal experts and our customers’ core design teams, thereby ensuring agile communications and fostering working together as a unified team to achieve each customer’s specific product and business goals.
Use-Case: Example of Collaborative Teamwork
Prime examples of how our focus on talent and teamwork can yield innovative results are the highly adaptable busbar technologies such as ENNOVI-BusMate compact pluggable power connectors, motor stator busbars, and other power solutions.
Cross-collaborative ENNOVI teams from multi-disciplinary domains created the core enabling technologies by leveraging deep knowledge of materials science, electrical, and mechanical engineering.
Building on these core enabling technologies, the combined internal and external teams can effectively tailor the specific product design implementations to optimize performance, competitiveness, and business results.
With a “local for local” approach to design, leveraging our globally distributed footprint, ENNOVI experts closely work together with customer teams to adapt and optimize the results of our global R&D to deliver customized, and hyper-targeted solutions for each customer’s specific market requirements.
Sustainability is Fundamental to Everything We Do
Our talented people form one of the four key pillars of ENNOVI’s overall sustainability approach with the other three being:
⦁ Environmental Excellence
⦁ Sustainable Procurement
⦁ Good Governance
As a Mobility Electrification Solutions Partner, we accelerate the innovation process for our EV customers by offering complete end-to-end manufacturing capabilities including R&D, design, tooling and sustainable production.
Design and Manufacturing Practices
In addition to product innovations that are helping the automotive industry move away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable clean-energy based mobility solutions, ENNOVI’s engineers are also constantly looking for innovative ways to improve sustainable practices in our product design and manufacturing.
This often involves rigorous R&D and materials sciences research to identify better, cleaner and more energy efficient methodologies. Our holistic approach includes the materials and processes used to create products for our customers by identifying key areas where sustainability improvement can be accomplished while maintaining low cost and performance objectives.
Use-Case: Press-Fit Technology for Signal Interconnects
ENNOVI Press-Fit technology is a clear example of how innovation can support sustainability. Unlike traditional soldered connections, Press-Fit helps reduce material wastage and energy consumption as it avoids the use of heat and soldering. Additionally, the Press-Fit interconnects can be easily disassembled, allowing individual parts to be removed and recycled at end-of-life. Below are 2 examples of interconnects utilizing Press-Fit technology.
Multi-Row Board-to-Board Connectors (ENNOVI-MB2B)
ENNOVI’s proprietary innovation using a snap-in biscuit design and solderless Press-Fit technology enables multiple connector units to be easily snapped together without solder. With high current carrying capacity, high pin density, and high layout flexibility.
ENNOVI-MB2B’s flexibility enables customers to quickly and easily configure customized solutions that are ideal for a wide range of applications. Solderless, with press-fit interfaces, many connector units can be stacked together, with a variety of pin and board spacing options.
Radar Interconnect Modules
Our automotive-approved Radar Interconnects combine our proven innovation of solder-free ENNOVI Press-Fit Technology with protective housings and physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating to provide protection and resistance to EMI. And to mitigate whiskering, they come with the option for IndiCoat™, our whisker mitigation plating technology.
Summary
As discussed in this previous article, Speed and Innovation are two primary pillars of success for ENNOVI’s ability to serve our automotive OEMs and Tier One suppliers with new technologies and solutions. These key initiatives of Speed and Innovation are critically dependent on our second two pillars of Talent and Sustainability.
Talent and teamwork are central to ENNOVI’s ability to design and deliver innovative solutions for the automotive sector. By fostering collaboration across multiple domains to develop complex electromechanical solutions for EVs and hybrid vehicles, our experts closely with customers from ideation through to production. Effective communication with clients’ design teams ensures successful, on-time, and on-budget delivery.
Sustainability is also integral to our operations, with ENNOVI focusing on environmental excellence, sustainable procurement, and good governance, while also continually innovating to improve sustainable practices in product design and manufacturing though proactive R&D and materials science to create cleaner, more energy-efficient processes.
