ACAM @ Formnext 2023: Projects and Events

Projects

Motivation and Relevance

• Production lines of hairpin stators require high investment costs while being not flexible regarding varying product properties
• Due to short development cycles of e-motors, design and production processes need to be variant flexible

Motivation and Relevance

• Necessary change from natural gas to hydrogen in hard-to-electrify sectors (e.g. steel) needs specialized burners
• Relevant for burner manufacturers and new material suppliers

Motivation and Relevance

• Implementing AI models to detect and categories anomalies as well as compensate defects is still difficult and requires expertise
• The lack of standardized data formats prevents AM users and service providers from connecting and using the data

Motivation and Relevance

• Multiple sensors can be integrated within a single fiber for real-time measurement over an area.
• Relevant for sustainable product development, predictive maintenance, performance monitoring and optimization of high-performance components.

Motivation and Relevance

• Increased demand for sustainability within the construction and building industry as one of the main consumer of the global energy demand
• Companies aiming for resource and energy efficient buildings, interested in architecturally ambitious building structures

Motivation and Relevance

• Handcraft businesses must innovate their products and services to fulfill the needs of B2B and B2C markets
• 3D printing offers them new avenues for product design, customization as well as innovative business models

Motivation and Relevance

• IP protection plays a crucial role for distributed manufacturing with AM as sensitive data such as 3D models have to be shared
• For AM users and service providers a solution to securely share data between companies is missing

Motivation and Relevance

• Missing understanding of electrodes of tailored alloys on the CO2 reduction reaction
• Reaction dependent on material composition and surface structure of electrode

Motivation and Relevance

• There is an increasing demand for L-PBF of high strength aluminum parts in aerospace application, due to the possibility to build complex and lightweight structures.
• Most of the high strength Aluminum Alloys produce cracks and defects during L-PBF.

Motivation and Relevance

• There are still only few tailored alloys for AM which benefit from typical AM processing conditions (e.g. high cooling rates)
• Alloy development is a slow, often iterative process which needs efficient simulative and experimental methods

Motivation and Relevance

• Production of complex components currently limited by process restrictions in PBF-LB/M:
• High demands on accuracy depended on melt pool size.
• Overhangs accompanied by heat accumulation and support structures.
• Stress peaks at transition from lattices and fine features to solid material.

Events

Summary

• Fast-growing technology environment with few trained specialists
• Employment opportunities possible in small and large companies
• Seminar includes focus on metal or plastics

When and Where?

Metal:

20.-24.03.2023

25.-29.09.2023

Polymer:

24.-28.04.2023

06.-10.11.2023