ACAM @ Formnext 2023: Our Exhibits

Additive Manufactured BLISK To Sky
Enabling Industries Through Implementation of Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace

Motivation and Relevance

  • Sustainable production of complex geometry engine components to increase efficiency and fuel efficiency is limited by the constraints of conventional manufacturing processes.
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Rocket Boattail
Enabling Industries Through Lightweighting and Function Integration

Motivation and Relevance

  • Rockets and aircrafts benefit from lightweight construction because it leads to lower fuel consumption and lower costs
  • Developers and parts suppliers can learn and profit from new and more efficient design methodologies
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HyRess
Resource-Saving Process Route for Highly Integrated Hydraulic Systems

Motivation and Relevance

  • Powder Bed Fusion of Metals (PBF-LB/M) enables functionally integrated hydraulic manifolds
  • Potential of better carbon footprint & functionality
  • High machine cost of PBF-LB/M is an obstacle
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Generator for Research Oriented Workflows (GROW)
Enabling Industries Through Automated Data Preparation Workflows for PBF-LB/M

Motivation and Relevance

  • Data preparation influences the productivity and quality of downstream process. For instance, nesting and part orientation directly impact both printing and post-processing.
  • However, due to conflicting goals decision-making in data preparation is prone to error and hard to optimize
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AM Build Job Nesting Optimizer
Enabling Industries Through Innovative Algorithms for Production Planning

Motivation and Relevance

  • State of the art nesting algorithms have insufficient performance to perform online optimization of AM production build job queues
  • Advanced nesting algorithms enable AM service providers to rapidly adapt to new orders and dynamically optimize production planning and nesting
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Wear Resistant Coating of Punching Tools by Metal-Matrix-Composites
Enabling Industries Through Refurbishing & Remanufacturing

Motivation and Relevance

  • Tools that are susceptible to wear can be coated in a resource-saving and cost-effective manner to prevent scrap
  • Manufacturing companies in all industries use tools whose service life can be increased
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Hybrid Repair of Worn Tools
Enabling Industries Through Refurbishing & Remanufacturing

Motivation and Relevance

  • Manufacturing companies in all industries use tools that can be remanufactured for multiple uses
  • Circular economy and repair can save a lot of raw materials in the industrial sector of mechanical engineering
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Magnesium Gooseneck
Enabling Industries Through Internal Coating of Magnesium Goosenecks

Motivation and Relevance

  • High mechanical and thermal stress on magnesium goosenecks
  • This results in high wear of the plunger track
  • Bore is usually re-machined and continuously enlarged
  • After 6-9 cycles, the casting vessel must be disposed
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DED on Fiber
Enabling Industries Through New Material Pairings

Motivation and Relevance

  • Transformation of the energy supply chain and energy system for the future widespread use of hydrogen
  • Lightweight pipes for hydrogen transport and storage made from a new material composition of coated fiber-reinforced polymers
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DED Coating of Tribological Contacts in Pumps and Bearings
Enabling Industries Through New Material Pairings

Motivation and Relevance

  • Remove alloys and materials systems that consist lead
  • Expanding the possible applications of AM and especially DED in the hydraulic field
  • Testing of coated surfaces under the tribological loads in hydraulic systems
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ZnMg-Scaffold
reACT – Medtech Made in Aachen

Motivation and Relevance

  • reACT is an association of various medical technology players from the Aachen technology region
  • The goal is reducing the number of operations required to remove implants by up to 40% through innovative resorbable concepts
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Lightweight Motor- Arterial Cooling

Motivation and Relevance

  • Reduction of engine weight from 30 % to 40 % with improved operating efficiency, operating behaviour, thermal management and reduced noise development
  • Hybridisation of vehicle powertrains will continue to grow in the future, which will also increase the weight of the drive units.
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Machine Remote Control DYNA-RC
Measurement and control technology

Motivation and Relevance

  • Traditional remote control solutions are not always the best fit for the requirements and specific features of the equipment, Need for efficient and user-friendly remote control for testing equipment
  • various industries, including automotive, aerospace, healthcare and many others
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BambusFab
Leisure and mobility industry

Motivation and Relevance

  • Sustainable and lightweight material
  • Fast, cost-effective, automatable, quality-assured joining method for bamboo cane piece
  • Leisure and mobility industry, research institutions, raw material suppliers
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Material Extrusion with a Multi-Axial Additive Manufacturing
System for Resource-Efficient and Sustainable Production

Motivation and Relevance

  • Current 3D printers are limited by their speed and have low extrusion rates
  • Nearly all usable materials are petrochemical and not eco-friendly
  • Creation of support structures requires a lot of material
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Automated Lightweight Design of Additive Gripper Jaws

Motivation and Relevance

  • Gripping process needs customized grippers, this causes costs in development and manufacturing
  • Lack of automated process chains for the construction of grippers in the industry
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Part-ID: Mobile Application to Recognize AM-Parts on the Shopfloor

Motivation and Relevance

  • AM-parts have a high geometry variance and must be recognized and sorted after batch production
  • AM service providers can use the app to simplify this process by applying the app within internal processes
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Additive Surface Graining in Prototype Tooling for Injection Moulding

Motivation and Relevance

  • Creation of grain structures in tool surfaces usually requires complex etching, electrical discharge machining or laser structuring processes
  • These processes are long lasting and the technics require high investments
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Enabling Polymer Additive Tooling for Small Batch Deep-Drawing Applications

Motivation and Relevance

  • Manufacturing of metal deep-drawing tools is costly and time consuming
  • For use-cases like prototyping the properties of metal tools are highly oversized and this causes material waste
  • Polymer Additive Tooling is able to reduce tool costs and increase speed in tool supply
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Enabling Polymer Additive Tooling for Prototyping Thermoforming Applications

Motivation and Relevance

  • Thermoforming tools made of metal are costly and in most cases oversized for prototyping applications
  • Information gained from using the series manufacturing process instead of AM is important for the development
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