Additive Manufacturing using Metal Pilot Line (MANUELA)
Forskningsprojekt, 2018
– 2022
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) allows, by enabling use of advanced design, production of high added value components, at levels that cannot be reached with conventional manufacturing technique.
Still, the AM-based manufacturing sequence implies large amounts of critical steps – design for AM, AM fabrication, post processing, etc. – compared to conventional production sequences. Presently, the key competencies related to these steps are either not fully implemented at industrial level (process quality monitoring) or dispersed geographically with poor connection between different steps.
Relying on two major AM technologies (LPBF: Laser Powder Bed Fusion and EBM Electron Beam Melting), MANUELA aims at deploying an open-access pilot line facility, covering the whole production sequence, to show full potential of metal AM for industrial AM production.
At first, careful instrumentation and adaptation of LPBF & EBM machines will allow increased process reliability and speed. Secondly, the pilot line – including the adapted processes – will be deployed. The hardware layer will integrate novel process quality control monitoring and automated post-AM handling and processing. The line will be fed by design/optimization and AM process simulation workshops. Those workshops will collect continuous feedback from the physical parts of the pilot lines, to increase process reliability and robustness.
MANUELA relies on a consortium composed of industrial end user’s, suppliers, (material/powder, AM hardware, quality monitoring system, software, automation and post-AM treatment) as well as top research institutes in powder-bed metal-AM, covering full range of AM technology chain for pilot line deployment.
The deployed pilot line will be validated for use cases, covering wide span of applications including automotive, aerospace, energy and medical. To insure sustainability of the deployed line and its open access at project end, a dedicated exploitation plan will be established.
Deltagare
Lars Nyborg (kontakt)
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap
Claudia de Andrade Schwerz
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning
Terpsithea Ketegeni
Chalmers, Forskningsstöd
Fiona Schulz
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning
Abdul Shaafi Shaikh
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning
Samarbetspartners
ABB
Zurich, Switzerland
Amires s.r.o.
Praha, Czech Republic
Biomedical Engineering s.r.o.
Kosice, Slovakia
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Centre suisse d'électronique et de microtechnique (CSEM)
Muttenz, Switzerland
Chalmers
Gothenburg, Sweden
Chalmers Industriteknik (CIT)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie (METAS)
Berne-Wabern, Switzerland
Electro Optical Systems OY
Åbo, Finland
Enel
Rome, Italy
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nurnberg (FAU)
Erlangen, Germany
Höganäs
Höganäs, Sweden
MSC Software Corporation
Munich, Germany
OEB S.r.l.
Camposanto, Italy
OSAI Automation Systems S.p.A.
Torino, Italy
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
Qioptic Ltd.
St Asaph, United Kingdom
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Göteborg, Sweden
Ruag Slip Rings AS
Nyon, Switzerland
Siemens Energy
Finspång, Sweden
Finansiering
Europeiska kommissionen (EU)
Projekt-id: EC/H2020/820774
Finansierar Chalmers deltagande under 2018–2022
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Materialvetenskap
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