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EOS: Developing metal Additive Manufacturing for a truly digital factory In July 2018, Metal Additive Manufacturing magazine’s Emily-Jo Hopson attended the company’s exclusive EOS Technology Days for an advance preview of its new metal Additive Manufacturing system, the EOS M 300, and a look at its vision for AM and the technology’s place in the digital factory of the future. Held at the company’s attractive rural headquarters in Krailling, Germany, the event offered attendees insight into areas that are key to EOS’s current development strategy.
Founded in 1989, EOS has long been recognised as a global technology leader at the forefront of the industrial Additive Manufacturing of both metals and polymers. The company’s portfolio includes a range of Additive Manufacturing systems, materials, global services, applications engineering and consultancy, all designed to give customers crucial competitive advantages in terms of product quality and long-term economic sustainability for the adoption of AM. Fuelled by the belief that Additive Manufacturing has the potential to enhance the industrial value chain, its industrial AM systems are developed with the aim of making it possible for customers to react quickly to changing requirements. Such systems enable applications that weren’t possible before, meet increasing demand for customisable end-products and help customers achieve sustainability goals in markets such as aerospace, automotive, medical, tooling and more. EOS currently has an installed base of more than 3,000 systems around the world. While it took roughly twenty years for the company
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to bring its first 1,000 systems into the market, it has installed the last 1,000 of its AM systems over the last three years. These numbers emphasise just how fast the industry and the market are growing; the company now has a network of global sales and service offices in fifteen countries, along with six innovation centres and more than 260 service specialists.
The digital factory In his welcome address, Thomas Weitlaner, Director of Business Development at EOS, used the example of the pace of automotive adoption to demonstrate how quickly he believes the manufacturing industry must be ready to adapt to the changing landscape of ‘Industry
Fig. 1 EOS’s headquarters in Krailling, Germany, was the venue for the EOS Technology Days 2018
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