Additive Inspirations #6

Posted on February 26, 2021March 2, 2021 by Ingo Schepers

Due to Corona, digital technologies are in greater demand than ever before: aviation and automotive markets have suffered severely from the crisis, new jobs for 3D printing machines have to be identified to fill capacities, while operators try to compensate for supply bottlenecks with 3D printing. Additive Manufacturing is in search of new impulses for its market.

As a virtual teaser to the MGA Annual Meeting 2020, we started a new online webinar series to keep our network connected. In exciting presentations, we highlighted recent practical examples and gave impulses as to the segments in which Additive Manufacturing can apply and expand its potential.

On January 21 we restarted this format with Prof. Dr. Jens Kurreck of the Technische Universität Berlin in a session on The Veggie Way: 3d printing prevents animal testing. Prof. Dr. Kurreck gave an insight into bioprinting of liver and lung models by pneumatic extrusion, the use of bio printed organ models in infection biology, cancer studies on bio printed organ models and the bioprinting initiatives in Berlin.

Now we would once again like to invite you to our next Additive Inspirations Session on March 25 at 14.00 CET. Bruno Knychalla, Managing Director of Additive Tectonics GmbH, will be our guest for this session on: “Radically innovative construction – buildings powered by Rocket Science”.

We are happy to learn about how innovative simulation and design strategies can decisively shape the built world of tomorrow through the latest possibilities in additive manufacturing. The talk will show how such technologies are being applied across disciplines to produce not only extremely performant, but also sustainable and stunning architecture. Groundbreaking developments in the field of 3D printing in concrete, artificial stone and other building materials of Additiv Tectonics GmbH will be shown and explained.

Materials – Focus Group Technical Standards

Posted on February 2, 2021February 25, 2022 by Ingo Schepers

In order to bundle the majority of interests, better understand the market and jointly advance AM, they are working in 6 focus groups.

One of these Focus Groups is TECHNICAL STANDARDS tasked with standardization, guidelines and norms in 3D printing. The group developed into a kind of pool of knowledge about what material standards do already exist, which AM specific testing methods are available and where major white spots are.

Over 340 standards and norms were collected, but of those only 66 could be collected completely with all available details. The completeness of a database from all existing norms and standards proved to be a major challenge.

But the cooperation with the major standardization institutes and platforms such as DIN, ISO, VDI and ASTM was the path to success. A win-win-situation for the institutions and our network: we gained access to all available standards and norms and the standardization bodies profited from its increasing visibility.

1.5 years of hard work paid off: Under the categorie “Technical Standards” on the weboostam platform a database with all available standards, norms and guidelines is accessible for our members. Here, the appropriate standard can be found according to the individual interest through a clear filter logic.

What happens next? To improve the database, we need it to be empowered by our members. Therefore, our request: Please check out the platform and give us your honest feedback!

The next step will be to integrate medical standards and norms from our Medical Division to the database.

Not quite up to date on standards? TÜV SÜD has agreed to not only support us with updating the platform but to also offer free training sessions to our members on these topics:

Thank you,TÜV Süd, for this support! To participate in any of these sessions, please contact the head of the Working Group, Dr. Tina Schlingmann