Operations
In our Operations Working Group, we focus on overcoming the complex challenges of establishing fully integrated industrial additive manufacturing production environments. The AM industry has reached a point where large-scale AM systems and associated software enable the production of parts with reliable quality for specific industrial applications. However, establishing a fully integrated industrial production environment—including AM, post-processing, and software workflows—to consistently deliver competitive customer value (in terms of cost, quality, lead time, and sustainability) while meeting occupational safety requirements remains a significantly more complex challenge. Key activities of the Operations Working Group include:
- Connecting the ACAM community to identify previously unresolved but pressing challenges in AM operations
- Pre-competitive consortial projects to jointly solve pressing operation challenges
- Operations topics are often closely linked to manufacturing technology. Through close collaboration with other working groups, we can connect the worlds of manufacturing technology and operations, for example, in the area of geometry-adaptive scan strategies for PBF-LB/M
