How AM (3D Printing) Can Accelerate and Advance Your Design
This presentation will cover the primary technologies available, an overview of the strengths of these technologies and how that has led to successful applications. Included will be examples of how AM is being applied to different applications in every step of the manufacturing process. Attendees will gain insight into how they can expand the use of AM in their applications.
Carl Dekker - Met-L-Flo
Full Scale Functional Prototypes Made by Hybrid Metal AM
A 50ft ship-to-shore transport for two ISO shipping containers demonstrated the importance of establishing a digital inventory to expedite future surge production. A 21in diameter underwater unmanned vehicle demonstrated design reconfigurability adapting to mission specific requirements and creating a product family foundation. This presentation will explain how products are brought into digital inventory and associated advantages. We will illustrate design options available for expanding inventory and present a typical schedule to produce field test articles using industrial scale hybrid metal additive manufacturing (AM). An integrated engineering flow path is required for transition from CAD model to produced article. Hybrid metal AM offers CNC machining during the AM process to improve quality, dimensional tolerance and finish machine surfaces. Design features impossible for other processes become available with hybrid metal AM, incorporating CNC machining and a 12 position tool changer.
Slade Gardner, PhD and Ryan Manning, MS Additive Manufacturing - Big Metal Additive