ACAM @ Formnext 2025: Our Exhibits

Motivation and Relevance

•  Customized Grippers Causing Higher Development and
  Manufacturing Costs
• Lack of automated process chains for the construction of
  grippers in the industry

Motivation and Relevance

• Filament-based technologies are characterized by a low melting rate, high material costs and low layer bonding
• Current pellet-based processes are characterized by low extrusion accuracy, high extruder weight, and high extruder cost and they require granulate with homogeneous sizes

Motivation and Relevance

• High disposal costs and low resource efficiency in maintenance and repair processes in aviation
• High demand for a more environmentally friendly and resource-efficient aviatio

Motivation and Relevance

• Rising demand for hydrogen burners requires safe, efficient designs.
• Flashback risk and emissions challenge conventional methods.
• Additive manufacturing enables advanced geometries and faster innovation.

Motivation and Relevance

• Currently, high effort for tailoring the scan strategy to a part geometry, especially through laser parameter adaption
• Tailoring the geometric vector arrangement to a part’s geometry, before the laser parameters are adjusted, offers currently unused potential towards first-time-right

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

• The shot sleeve is never completely filled with melt, resulting in an inhomogeneous heat distribution within the chamber. Due to the one-sided fixed clamping, the chamber distorts and the plunger can no longer seal the melt completely to the rear. The shot sleeve can no longer be used for the casting process and must be replaced.

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

• Stable production process and avoidance of copper oxides
• Temperature, flame topology, mixing conditions
• Optimised, AM-compatible design
• Process development for using infrared lasers

Motivation and Relevance

• Bio-resorbable implants optimally adapted to the patient specific bone defect and designed for the individual requirements have the potential to positively influence the healing process, preserve more bone material and reduce the number of follow-up surgery

Motivation and Relevance

• Design configurators enable the creation of scalable, flexible hydrogen gas burners in short time
• Generation of three-dimensional burner geometries
• Consideration of formulas, databases, and guidelines

Motivation and Relevanc

• Powder recycling is of great interest in PBF-LB/M to reduce consumption of resources and the related manufacturing costs
• What little research is present mostly focusses on bulk effects not on the effects of individual particles thereby preventing deeper understanding of possible issues

Enabling Industries Through HS-DED

Motivation and Relevance

• Lightweight construction of Rocket Engine Nozzles and Housings for satellites required for efficient missions
• HS-DED mainly used for coating applications, but potentials for improvement of production times of thin-walled parts
• Printing of thin-walled structures from AlSi10Mg

Motivation and Relevance

• Currently, reliably detecting anomalies in Near-Infrared (NIR) Monitoring is challenging
• For reliable anomaly detection in quality control (QC), a reference “ok” NIR image (without anomalies) is required to compare with taken ones, to detect anomalies

Motivation and Relevance

• Exploring digital solutions to visualize and physically feel mechanical behavior of AM lattice structures
• Offers a tool for product designers and engineers to evaluate comfort and mechanical response before production

Motivation and Relevance

• Additive manufacturing enables complex product designs
• Conventional CAD comes to its limits to address innovative design methods
• Designers and manufacturers of complex and variant-flexible components need automated solutions