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Ihub, I totally agree with your vision.
AM is in the early stage of technical evolution, and so is EBM.
Technique, software and base material are improved in the last years, and will improve even faster in the coming years.
For companies like GE it is a normal procedure not to gamble all your money on a new technology, and especially when it is not mature yet.
It is wiser to adapt this technology step by step, support the businesses you believe in, help them to improve in the direction you like, and within years you are able to add this technology as a mature part to your production facilities.
The aviation business is based on confidence and proven reliability.
A new technology is welcome, but it takes time before it is adapted, because.....
HIP Supporting Additive Manufacturing
A proven process for additive manufactured parts
cooling from 1800°C to 40°C within 30 minutes, and with excellent properties
http://quintustechnologies.com/hot-isostatic-pressing/applications-2/additive-manufacturing/
RE: simple math:
8 blades per cycle?
What are the dimensions of the blades?
Isn't it possible to build 20 blades per cycle by stacking?
Duration of a cycle includes 8 hours of cooling INSIDE the Q-system,
What if the builded parts are directly removed after building, and are transfered to a HIP System (Hot isostatic pressing)
http://quintustechnologies.com/
https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0ahUKEwisktKDr77LAhWBDCwKHaF-CMYQFgg6MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquintustechnologies.com%2F%3Fattachment_id%3D654&usg=AFQjCNErXgqKgQMRrhjgRQG80pnmidfkjg&sig2=bNrnU0wkXuCVZjbU0y1qnw&bvm=bv.116636494,d.bGQ&cad=rja
Thanks Tom
This was my goal, by reading the article you'll come aware what is needed to have a product certified for FAA.
At least you need 5000 printed parts for testing, a complete database of all production data of all those parts.
Suppose you are working on certification of ten different products, ten printers are 24/7 printing for almost a year on the needed parts for testing!
DARPA has recognized the difficulties for certification, and is developing a way to shorten these procedures.
http://www.darpa.mil/program/open-manufacturing
Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review
http://scholar.google.nl/scholar_url?url=http://lib2013.mirdc.org.tw/temp/cisc_news/144/Metal%2520Additive%2520Manufacturing-%2520A%2520Review.pdf&hl=nl&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0Ot7KCMjbz6i_Hed5J5gpp8eT6Dg&nossl=1&oi=scholarr&ved=0ahUKEwjDsdDbgbvLAhVkG5oKHQ1MAMYQgAMIHCgAMAA
AM plans from Stryker:
Stryker is Committing to 3D Printing with Upcoming Multimillion-Dollar 3D Printing Manufacturing Facility
http://3dprint.com/117456/stryker-3d-printing-facility/
certification of parts; not easy to find!
I started here
http://rgl.faa.gov/
Parts Manufacturer Approval Procedures
http://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/8110.42c.pdf
It's all in the last sentences
With this successful effort, Honeywell then began producing a rear bearing turbine support (RBTS) with this same technology and material.
"Began producing" is something different than "began testing"
Honeywell has identified multiple parts to take into production with 3D printing technology. Those parts will be explained in future blog postings.
"to take into production"
Not an "if" or a "maybe"
Was this posted earlier?
An Insider's View on 3D Printing in Aerospace
September 11, 2015 | Author: Donald Godfrey
https://aerospace.honeywell.com/en/blogs/2015/september/an-insider-s-view-on-3d-printing-in-aerospace
Video Avio Aero:
Additive manufacturing for Helicopters?!
Look at 1:37 minutes, it is not a turbine blade, what is it?
was posted earlier, AM takes off
http://www.machinery.co.uk/machinery-features/airbus-and-gkn-aerospace-have-both-together-and-separately-developed-metal-additive-manufacturing-processes-to-an-advanced-stage-their-sights-are-now-set-on-flight-qualifying-a-part-as-will-dalrymple-reports/110930/#.dpuf
RE:Airbus in the UK
http://www.airbus.com/company/worldwide-presence/airbus-in-uk/
RE: EBM vs SLM.
One disadvantage of EBM is not mentioned in the slides:
Cool down time of eight hours.
Does this mean that the system is out of business for eight hours during this cooling down?
If I was asked to improve the productivity of this system, I would directly think of multiple chambers within the system.
I would add a cooling down chamber, connected with pressure / temperature proof connecting doors.
And inside a transportation system for the builded parts and sintered powder, etc
After production the product is moved to the preheated cooling chamber, the building chamber is cooled, and prepared for the next session / heated etc.
Many questions I cannot answer
What I know: Now multiple laser systems are used with SLM
Maybe we could ask the help of Tuan Trampham.
I do not have a twitter account, who has?
https://twitter.com/ttranpham
Or Carsten Engel, the writer / publisher of the slideshow
http://mikrocentrum.nl/kennis/bloggers/carsten-engel/
SLM vs EBM, the full story in a slideshow
http://www.slideshare.net/carstenengel/selective-laser-melting-versus-electron-beam-melting
Solactive 3D Printing Index
We are still in the top (4) of the listing of the Solactive 3D Printing Index.
Germans don't make jokes!
http://www.solactive.com/de/aktien-indizes/solactive-indizes/?indexmembers=DE000SLA3DP9
SLM will be listed in the TecDax
Selective Laser Melting (AM3D) is selected for the TecDAX
http://stage.slm-solutions.com/index.php?cn_20160304_de
From pennystock to real Stock
http://www.finanzen.net/index/TECDAX/Werte
Thks Tom
Finally someone with adequate knowledge in material science.
For what I know from all familiair building processes, and that is as far as my knowlege goes, you are wright.
The builded product would be similar as sintered with a maimum density of 60 / 70%
For me it is the same wonder story as building 100% graphene
Don't forget Turbomeca
Turbomeca is a daughter of Safran, it is a world-leading helicopter engine manufacturer.
They are printing fuel nozzles with SLM (Eosint M280)
I will not be wondered if they decide to print turbine blades as well
http://www.turbomeca.com/media/20150109_turbomeca-introduces-additive-manufacturing-capability-engine-components
http://www.turbomeca.com/
RE pdb2; I totally agree.
You forgot to mention the orthopedic implant sector; it is still growing on a steady pace.
At 2:30 MET Materialise will present Q4 earnings.
Materialise also has a strong presence in this sector (with EBM)
"by building three new atomizing reactors"
It is an announcement.
They are building, or will be building.
Tuan trampham:
AP&C’s Plasma technology for Metal #3Dprinting powder will soon reach a capacity of at least 500 tons per year.
In my believe, soon means within months to a year.
What's the point?
AP&C continues to invest in powder manufacturing capacity, adds 3 more powder reactors for a total of 8
Arcam AB, listed on NASDAQ Stockholm, and a leading supplier of Additive Manufacturing (“AM”) equipment, announces that its powder manufacturing subsidiary AP&C in Montreal, Canada, continues to add significant capacity by building three new atomizing reactors. The new capacity increase follows on significant growth in 2015 and a surge in demand for AP&Cs high quality titanium powders.
Materialise: suite of software and solutions
Materialise NV (NASDAQ:MTLS) announced today that they will be showcasing a full suite of software and solutions for 3D printing within hospitals at AAOS, the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida: March 1-5, booth 3781. Introduced for the first time at the AAOS Annual Meeting, this Suite brings together medical software and services into a neutral platform that facilitates the further integration of 3D planning and printing into hospitals. Also launched as part of the Suite will be a new software solution that enables surgeons to 3D print accurate medical models in hospitals.
http://investors.materialise.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=253045&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2142618
Australian cancer patient receives 3D printed vertebrae in life changing surgery
Probaly produced by EBM through Csiro a partner from Anatomics Pty
They also did a great job with a sternum and rib cage on a patient.
http://www.anatomics.com/innovation/technology-partnerships/
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-sternum-and-rib-cage-csiro/39369/
Sorry, was the wrong link to the article
TMS 2016: AM in the picture
See all papers
http://www.programmaster.org/PM/PM.nsf/ApprovedAbstracts/883448BBA95BCA2D85257E690033C2E5?OpenDocument
Thanks for the good work Charlie.
Nice to know they did it with the A2X.
Two days ago I found the same answer, found it in the E-book of TMS 2016
(Starting at page 5, first scroll tot the top)
https://books.google.nl/books?id=9hSQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=Additive+Manufacturing:+Building+the+Pathway+towards+Process+and+Material+Qualification&source=bl&ots=nr-Pkrfyum&sig=QnxQiFdfETsbN-zVqCjsspSj-fM&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7ciih4nLAhWEpnIKHWKuDK8Q6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=Additive%20Manufacturing%3A%20Building%20the%20Pathway%20towards%20Process%20and%20Material%20Qualification&f=false
Use of Arcam patent?
New 3D printing technique for high entropy metal alloy pioneered by Hitachi, Tohoku University researchers
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160217-3d-printing-technique-for-high-entropy-metal-alloy-pioneered-by-hitachi-tohoku-university.html
During that 3D printing test, the metal powder used had a layer thickness of about 70 µm. Spread out over the printbed, the material was irradiated with an electron beam and solidified conforming the predetermined shape. That process is repeated layer after layer like an ordinary metal 3D printing process,
Very true Tom Joad
Cooling down of an extremely heated (melted) metal creates stress and cristalisation within the metal.
The slower you cool it, the less stress.
With layered AM, the aggregation from liquid to solid is in one direction:
The builded part is very hot, and on the other side of the new builded layer, it is cold.
Theirefore the stress within the material is always in one direction.
So, the higher the temperature is outside the new builded layer, the less stress you build.
The less energy you put in every layer (small building rate with minimal power), the less stress you built.
And it is the same for grain growth, cooling down slowly, cooling down in the same speed in all directions means little or no grain growth.
So building in an environment that is heated close to the melting point of the builded material is the best way.
Cooling down of the builded part needs to be done very slowly, and be sure there is no cooling down in any direction.
Sciaky has no heated building chamber, uses a lot of power to built a layer.
Cooling down is in one direction, and very vast.
RE: Descarmo; why we are up 10%?
In my believe because the rating of DDD and Stratasys by Kenneth Wong from Citi; the whole 3DP market is up.
And a good sentiment on the European stockmarkets
http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/16/02/6301855/3d-printer-earnings-are-we-at-a-floor
Sciaky / Arcam
Sciaky: finest resolution 1 mm wide 3 mm high (one layer)
Arcam: finest resolution 100 µm = 0,1 mm x 0,1 mm(one layer)
Sciaky: 1 x 3 mm = 3 mm2
Arcam: 0,1 x 0,1 = 0,01 mm2
Arcam builds 300 times finer!
So it is no competition, it is a total different business.
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/01/18/sciakys-john-ohara-ebam-technologys-3d-printing-projects-2015/
A good point TheCleos
But it all depends on the sales contracts of new equipment.
Is 5 years of service and software / hardware updates include?
Is it two years? One year?
I haven't got a clue.
But I suppose you are wright, in time we can expect a serious amount of profit on service and updating of equipment
SLM Solutions: partnership with CADS (Austria) in designing software
http://www.it-times.de/news/3d-druckerspezialist-slm-solutions-knupft-partnerschaft-mit-softwareentwickler-in-osterreich-115793/
Re: the cleos software
Materialise and Sigma Labs are very close, work together in many projects, and for what I have heard, Arcam also has a close relation with with Sigma.
Hardware are the basics, but without good software...
Knowing what you do, keeping data of what you did, knowing of what you wanted and what the result is, etc
All of major importance, and with a little help from others?
And believe me they are allies.
Re: The flip side
I thinks that's the way Arcam is planning to follow.
Two different tracks in R&D, industrialization and advanced EBM.
The process of industrialization with support from GKN (with a lot of experience in high quantity production systems)
The development of advanced EBM in their own hands.
The support od GKN is welcome, but what is the price?
Suppose they have solved a couple of bottlenecks, and in a year there is a Q20 production line that is 40% faster, and the down-time is reduced with 80%.
Is that system for sale to other customers?
Is GKN claiming patent rights?
I hope there is a contract with GKN that the new systems are for sale to others, where GKN gets some profit for every sold system.