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Exploiting your metal Additive Manufacturing data assets: Faster industrialisation and new revenue streams While metal Additive Manufacturing is revolutionising industries from aerospace to healthcare, the need for efficient process development and the acquisition of validated material data is becoming increasingly important. In this context, a groundbreaking solution emerges – that of the platform-based exploitation of metal AM data assets to accelerate industrialisation and unlock new revenue streams. Here, Rosswag GmbH's Philipp Schwarz and Gregor Graf delve into the significance of this concept and how it fits as a crucial piece in the AM industrialisation puzzle.
In the dynamic landscape of metal AM, the quest for optimised and rapid process development is a prevailing trend. There are currently only a few dozen materials that are qualified for industrial metal AM applications. Conventional manufacturing processes, however, have the option to choose from thousands of ironbased alloys, for example. This leads to slower AM application development, among other things, resulting in a reduced speed of industrial adoption despite the tremendous technological potential of the technology. In addition to this, we have yet to consider the development of new materials with previously unobtainable properties that can only be processed by metal AM.
the quality, production time and cost of an additively manufactured metal part. As with all metal forming processes, complexity increases further if raw material production or complex heat treatment cycles are considered. With new developments such as beam shaping, high-temperature preheating or multi-material manufacturing, there are additional factors that contribute to a further
growth of parameter complexity. So, when there is such complexity, why should an AM user even think about optimising their standard parameter sets? The simple answer is that if they don’t, they are not leveraging the full potential of their expensive hardware. Process parameters can be optimised not only for higher productivity. There is a wide range of
The complexity challenge Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) is currently the leading metal AM process, yet it remains complex to master. Depending on machine type, there are numerous different parameters that influence
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Fig. 1 Metal material availability for comparison of conventional and Additive Manufacturing processes (Courtesy Rosswag)
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