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Month: April 2021

Materials – Midterm Meeting 2021

Posted on by Ingo Schepers

On April 13 & 14 2021 our mobility working group Materials that now consists of 68 member companies got together virtually for their annual Midterm Meeting, the first of two meetings a year where the whole working group is brought to the table.

130 participants from those member companies were updated on the current status and future plans of the individual focus groups by Dr. Tina Schlingmann, Head of the Working Group and the leaders of the six focus groups, Bart Engendahl (Chromatic 3D Materials), Benjamin Haas (SLM Solutions), Joanna Marguier (Covestro), Giulitta Bertoli (ÖBB), Simon Treiber (Berger S2B), Maximilian Stöckle (Big Rep) & Markus Schneider (GKN Sinter Metals).

All all focus group made great progress and gained important insights:

  • Market Needs has compared the conventional with the additive manufacturing method on the basis of an actually produced and thoroughly tested model component with some astonishing results. You can find the results in our members area.
  • Elastomers were initiators of a materials compass that has now been launched on weboostam.com. From now on, users of additive manufacturing processes can get a quick overview of existing materials and their properties and save a lot of time and money.
  • High Performance Polymers joined forces last year with the RAILiability working group, that serves as a safe haven for a lively exchange of ideas for eight European railroads. Together, the two groups are working on tackling the issues surrounding flame-retardant polymers step by step and can already report the first partial successes.
  • Metals is, thanks in great part to our new member BAM, busy with the follow-up to the Round Robin Test on AlSi10Mg and is working on new topics around the printing of copper and steel.
  • Testing Methods has established a large database with the same name on the WeBoostAM platform, which will as a next step and with the help of the Medical Materials working group also include medical standards.
  • Technical Standards first generated a big picture overview of all activities in the area of testing. From this, a WAAM task force emerged.

It is impressive to see how far this working group has come since its foundation almost 3 years ago (we celebrate the birthday officially on July 09) and the network would like to thank each and every participant for their active and result-oriented work.

Dr. Tina Schlingmann, who will start a new job at our member company EOS on May 01, will remain head of the MATERIALS working group and is looking forward to further productive meetings with the members.

 

Additive Inspirations #7

Posted on by Ingo Schepers

On May 20 from 4 until 5 pm we would like to invite you to the next Additive Inspirations Session, this time with a mobility topic. Henri De Chassey, Brakes & Safety Process Engineering / Methods Manager at Faiveley Transport – a Wabtec company will be our guests, presenting 3D printing, a technology pillar at Wabtec.

Henri De Chassey is a mechanical engineer, working in the railway industry since 2011 and has for the past 5 years been dealing with additive manufacturing projects. Since 2021 he also manages/followes all 3D printing projects (OE & CS) for Wabtec Transit, supporting their customers and production sites, from requests to the drawings validation, production and parts validation steps.

We are looking forward to hearing his input on the topics of Wabtec, the Railway industry and 3DPrinting/Additive manufacturing as well as SLM and Binderjet.

 

What is an Additive Inspirations Session?

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.

In 2021 we have restarted this program and already welcomed Prof. Dr. Jens Kurreck of the Technische Universität Berlin in a session on The Veggie Way: 3d printing prevents animal testing and Bruno Knychalla, Managing Director of Additive Tectonics GmbH, in a session about Radically innovative construction – buildings powered by Rocket Science.

Missed a session? You can find them in our Members Area!

3D printing for a greener future

Posted on by Ingo Schepers

The pressure on the industry to be greener and think more sustainably is constantly growing, and sustainable production processes like 3D printing are becoming more and more important. To celebrate Earth Day, today we’re shedding light on what exactly makes additive manufacturing more sustainable than conventional manufacturing technologies.

For us, five features clearly stand out:

  1. material savings: through extended geometry freedom and software tools for topological optimization, AM enables entirely new components. For example, material is only built up where it is really needed mechanically. This reduces the bound primary energy required for raw material production and also the energy required for manufacturing.
  2. hardly any production waste: Only small volumes of support structures or milling chips from post-processing are generated, which can be recycled. No molds or tools are needed for additive manufacturing.
  3. inherent lightweight design: hollow bodies filled with lightweight lattice structures instead of parts cast from solid material can be optimally manufactured with AM. When used in vehicles and aircrafts, this saves large amounts of fuel and CO2.
  4. green materials: recycled plastics, recycled metal powders, and bio-based as well as biodegradable plastics can already be processed in AM today. The quality is often comparable to conventional materials.
  5. Improved recyclability: Multi-hierarchical design (several functions in one component) is often only possible with AM and allows multiple functions to be accomplished with only one material (e.g. cooling and structure). Monomaterials are much more recyclable.

All in all, it shows that we can make a big step towards more sustainable production processes with additive manufacturing.
At MGA, we will continue to work to establish 3D printing alongside conventional methods in production processes, for a greener future.

Your contribution for a generic approval path for AM parts

Posted on by Ingo Schepers

After almost two years of intensive work, the working group Approval in Rail has reached a major goal: For the first time ever an additively manufactured, highly stressed and safety-relevant component has been approved for operational use.

But this first success is not the end of the story: The next milestones are within reach.
To avoid constant repetition of the cost-intensive work of the first stage for every new component, the working group wants to develop a generic approval path and calculation method for AM manufactured safety-relevant components in the railroad sector.

For this, however, the working group needs your support.

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