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The start date for the project with the auto industry was reportedly 3/19. If this is "half-way" for automotive production my math says about 18 mos for autos. glta
Intriguing metaphor. HP not dmls right? Same GKN vip doing both our little webinar and IDAM "In March 2019, a consortium of 12 partners from across the additive manufacturing, automotive, research and industrial sectors launched the Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing (IDAM) project. At its core, the project addresses the limitations of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) AM, including the lack of automation and high associated costs, that hinder the technology’s adoption for industrial, serial production in industries such as automotive.
The IDAM project was conceived in order to confront and overcome these challenges. The 20 million euro initiative is partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and brings together 12 partners: GKN Powder Metallurgy, BMW Group, Aconity GmbH, Concept Reply GmbH, Myrenne GmbH, Intec GmbH, Kinexon Industries GmbH, Volkmann GmbH, Schmitz Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH, Chair for Digital Additive Production DAP, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and Technical University of Munich, Chair of Metal Forming and Casting.
Each partner contributes in its specific area of expertise to help establish a pilot line for a fully automated, industrial-ready additive production. The goal of IDAM is to build two pilot lines—one at GKN PM’s factory in Bonn, and the other at BMW Group’s facility in Munich—to demonstrate a digitalized and IoT-driven production line for 3D printing automotive components. When these pilot lines are up and running, the IDAM consortium aims to produce over 10,000 individual and spare parts per year, as well as at least 50,000 mass-produced components. One of the key points that set IDAM apart from other AM automation concepts is that it is end-user-based rather than supplier-based. The IDAM pilot line will encompass an open architecture, that can be adapted for any LPBF system.
Qualifying IDAM pilot line modules
GKN PM is a key member of the IDAM consortium and a host to one of the two pilot lines at its facility in Bonn, Germany. The company is leveraging its extensive knowledge of conventional powder metallurgy serial production as well as its experience with metal additive manufacturing to create an industrialized, automated factory setting.
The modular approach within IDAM enables as well that further AM technologies within GKN’s portfolio (e.g. Metal Binder Jetting, Multi Jet Fusion) will be digitally connected and benefit from the new developments. Within the framework of the IDAM project, GKN PM acts as a critical bridge between the various project members, translating process development concepts from the academic side to application-focused strategies on the industry side. GKN PM and BMW also provide vital insight into the qualification process and support the SMEs who are developing the pilot line modules.
“We are now halfway through the IDAM roadmap,” says Sebastian Blümer, Technology Manager Laser AM at GKN Powder Metallurgy. “Currently, we are in the phase of checking the concepts of the pilot line modules. We are preparing to receive the remaining modules by the beginning of 2021, which will give us about a year to test and qualify them. In other words, the digital architecture is almost finished and we are now looking to the prototype phase. We are eager to get the pilot line modules connected with our internal systems to simulate the IDAM workflow.”
Establishing a digital architecture
Over the past year, the IDAM consortium partners have made progress in the creation of the digitalized AM pilotglta
Feels like giving still. But we're in good company and things seems to be on track. glta
Trying
You're probably right. Should have mentioned third participant, APWORKS GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of Premium AEROTEC. glta
This is the foretold harvest year. I believe there were clear intimations, if not promises made, that deals would be announced this quarter. Really need to start to climb out of this hole soon. gl
Baker-Hughes, SLM, webcast. Interesting. Gets real interesting at 47:00.
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Did you miss @TBGAddvisor's dialogue last week? Our NA President Jill Christner participated in a wonderful panel of #Additivemanufacturing experts on the topic "The Path to AM Qualification". Watch on-demand here! https://t.co/mvJ0vuxldt
— Nikon SLM Solutions (@NikonSLM) August 3, 2020
So observant. I say there is a connection here. Others can decide for themselves. Maybe sigma isn't working on autos with gkn. Someone should let gkn know. glta https://sigmalabsinc.com/webinar-gkn-additive-evaluation-of-printrite3d/
Thanks for update
EOS has added products. Thoughts? Our pardner,mtls, reports tomorrow. glta.
https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/products/eos-m-300-4-3d-printer-designed-for-industrial-applications
https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/products/eos-expands-range-of-premium-and-core-metal-materials-
Sorry no specific mention.
"Lead author in writing the standards." Much industry respect. Way to go sglb glta
CFO said 3,926,362 outstanding shares. That is a relatively small number considering potential for profit here...eventually...imo, glta
Thanks Dio. I like this part.... "However,(mo fos) until companies that utilize 3D production facilities like GE Aviation are able to effectively verify that each part conforms to design specifications of attributes of shape, density, strength and consistency in real-time during the manufacturing process, we believe that such companies will be at risk of letting some substandard parts through and, also, be unable to improve the workflow to high quality cost-optimum yields of 3D printed metal parts. No matter how much acuity and at what cost a suite of post process inspection tools might provide 3D manufactured metal parts, it currently can only assure quality yield by rejecting fully formed parts, and, over time, applying comprehensive ‘reverse engineering’ forensic analyses of each rejected part to identify repeating quality flaws attributable to constants such as location, design, or scan strategy. Once the locations of these repeating flaws are identified, process engineers can act to make the AM equipment deliver better quality by adjusting the computer-based manufacturing instructions of AM equipment to offset the repeating flaws discovered by that deep analyses of individual rejected parts in many manufacturing runs. This prolonged post-process methodology is very costly due to the loss of material and rejected parts as well as post-process analysis labor cost and inspection cost such as CT scanning. Additionally, there still lingers the question of whether or not the post-process inspections were sufficiently granular to assure that flawed parts were not accepted and shipped.
We believe that our product, PrintRite3D® version 5.2, which is ‘agnostic’ and can be installed on all major brands of 3D metal laser powderbed printers, solves these problems by determining if each part is being made to the metallurgical quality specifications of the product design as each part is being made. Our software enables 3D prototyping to evolve forward into serial or production 3D manufacturing by providing a software suite with algorithm-based tools that address and overcome quality issues that are specific to 3D Metal Additive Manufacturing and that are not solved using the post-production quality methods developed for subtractive manufacturing along with and newly dependent upon CT scanning. The PrintRite3D® suite has the potential to substantially lower operating costs and can attain higher yields by inspecting parts as they are made and providing machines and their operators actionable information that includes the options of stopping manufacture of given part(s) while operations continue to complete parts that are in specification, thus saving time and money while raising yields.
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PrintRite3D® also gives operators information from run-to-run that enables them to ‘learn up’ quality for a given machine by using PrintRite3D® data about machine behaviors that can then be offset by making adjustments to power settings directed at a given sector. PrintRite3D®’s (“TED”) feature supersedes and truncates the “reverse engineering” process of post process inspection described above by providing process engineers the data required to optimize individual machines as well as machines in series in days or weeks and before serial production is launched rather than months after production and rejection rates have accrued in costly quantities." glta
Prediction Model of Defect Effect on Fatigue Life on AM Components (MoDFAM).Supporting Members Include: GKN Aerospace (Chair), BAE Systems, Sandvik Coromant, Meggitt, Parker Aerospace, ESI, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Trumpf, and Sigma Labs, MTC Additional Participant Members: AWE, University of Coventry, University of Nottingham
"...This project will be a significant step towards identifying allowable defects in operational AM components and will allow for targeted inspections, as well as providing data for research or industrial applications. The project was commenced in March of 2020 with a timeline of 12 months and budget of $309k." glta
https://mailchi.mp/e1f24047fb57/july-2020-newsletter
ILTP. "The challenge presented of 3D Additive Manufacturing quality assurance is illustrated by the fact that if a 3D metal manufacturing machine fabricates 10 parts, and quality inspectors then rigorously inspect three of them, the inspectors will have learned about the quality of only the three parts they destroyed or CT-scanned and nothing that is sufficient to confirm or reject the quality of the remaining seven. Quality assurance of 3D Additive metal parts requires high quality sensitive manufacturers to institute procedures to inspect 100% of the parts being made. Sigma believes that the best, indeed, to Sigma’s knowledge, the only known way to attain high yields for both manufacturing quality and cost efficiency is an In-Process-Quality-Assurance (IPQA®) approach that examines each part in real time as it is being manufactured, determines in real time whether it meets quality specifications and permits machine operators to act on the information if a part is beginning to deviate from its design specifications."
This is good too - " We believe there is potential for our PrintRite3D® software to be incorporated into a significant percentage of 3D metal printing devices made by companies like Additive Industries, ARCAM, Concept Laser, DMG Mori, Electro-Optical Systems (“EOS”), SLM, Trumpf Industries, Farsoon, Renishaw, Sodick, and others.
Third Party Competition and Sigma’s Intellectual Property Safeguards
Sigma is engaged with large companies in several industries including aerospace, defense, oil and gas, bio-medical, and power generation because both we, and they, agree that they need a common quality standard and third party quality assurance tools for 3D metal printing that applies to all laser powderbed-made parts regardless of which machine, design, or metal was employed. To date, we are unaware of any meltpool monitoring products that compete with PrintRite3D that can meet those criteria. Sigma’s thermal data gathering, and analytical tools provide quality information metrics that correlate to measures of internal metal part design, conformity, uniformity, and characteristics such as porosity, unsintered material etc. The primary competition to PrintRite 3D is varying iterations of Optical Tomography (OT). Optical Tomography develops optical data and computer analysis thereof sometimes linked to simulation tools to predict quality. OT technology does not provide universal thermal-data based metrics of metal quality that Sigma’s thermal data provides, and which are fundamental to confirming or rejecting parts based on measurable consistency of material properties.
Sigma began its investigation and research into optical and thermal data collection and measurement for quality assurance and intervention approximately 5 years ago and began to develop its intellectual property protection at that time also. The international IP law firm, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, has advised the Company on building the nets and walls of its patent portfolio, trade secrets, trademarks, etc. and filed and prosecuted patents as the Company has grown its body of intellectual property."
Or maybe a "root crop" would further the analogy better. Everything good is underground. :) glta
Sure. Invisible fruit. eom
I hear you. Keeping with the fruits of our labor metaphor we have not paid for the farm with any large sales to the bigs but company has assured the peanut gallery that it is time to "harvest" so maybe there is some fruit there after all but for some reason it can't be seen by everybody? Yet? Sorry that's all i got. glta
Sorry. Should have put a winky face. Website shows partners. glta
https://new.siemens.com/us/en/markets/solutions-for-machine-builders/additivemanufacturing.html Is sglb still partner w siemens? Siemens on the right track. Check out the videos/on this link. A lot of yall probably know this stuff already but hearing siemens say it makes it seem more real glta
How do you know what other people know?
Seems volume has been pretty good/stable for 90 days. 450k+ Trying to wrap my imagination around the future of this digital manufacturing beast that is rising. Pretty much got it figured out. It is very unstable/dynamic and that is what is going to power it. Machine learning and closing the loop, for lack of a better term, is by nature unstable,constantly changing, dynamic. Once the switch is thrown and the feedback loop begins it needs new data to live. Sensors will pull data from the physical world and send it to the digital which can use it to morph the physical or just document it. All iiot cloud platforms are subscription. You pay to play and since everything is constantly being updated and changing it is just the smart way for a production manager to not have to worry about all of the software updates by leaving the onus on the software provider to keep everything working Programs like AWS, Azure, Siemens NX as well as other CAD/CAM software like autodesk and adobe materialise is also subscription based. They have to be because AM software and products can still be improved by inonvation and with such valuable markets seemingly available the software providers and software users know that they need to stay on the lasers edge to secure these markets,contracts,orders etc. Seems like a product that could monitor the build of a part while it was been printed and then provide that data back into the loop could be very valuable. glta
https://www.materialise.com/en/blog/five-magics-24-features-accelerating-productivity
https://www.materialise.com/en/blog/3d-printing-software-value?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=softvalue
https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/nx-manufacturing/siemens-launches-flexible-subscription-based-nx-cam-cloud-connected-software/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/iot-accelerators/connected-factory/
Optimistic webinar. Will expire soon. The last section on "Neighborhood 91" seems to show a way to have a 3d print "Garden" rather than farm. New fiscal year begins tomorrow right? glta https://my.demio.com/recording/ECmIKrOs
I'm hearing you. glta
.31 a share. Why warrants? Would co buyback?
Source? What would sglb be working on besides ipqa?
From msfc last nov."In summary, NASA encourages and wants to help enable the use of
in-situ process monitoring for AM certification."
Use for process monitoring is highly encouraged.
? Will help inform, develop, and prepare for part quality function
To use for quantitative part quality function, monitoring system must be qualified.
? Main challenge: developing correlation of indication to verified defect
Qualifying closed-loop, adaptive systems will require a new approach to the QMP."
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200000032.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2aae84f407b43d00601acb/t/5d56ba1830148b00012bca58/1565964825948/F42ID3763.pdf
"Sigma Labs looks to integrate its QA software with ANSYS's simulation software, to further improve this workflow." https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/3d-printing-plays-vital-role-in-new-normal-2020-05-19?tesla=y glta
https://insights.globalspec.com/article/14170/the-decade-s-biggest-additive-manufacturing-innovations-new-materials-real-time-control-and-more from a group that should know right? glta
Lots of after market volume Train. Train Train. glta
This article about Europe and their standards seems relative to astm article. https://www.machinedesign.com/3d-printing-cad/article/21837611/consortiums-and-tech-hubs-work-together-to-advance-3d-printing glta
That's funny. I know it is hard...after being teased for so long and all.
Let's get this Friday party started! This article should put everbody in the right mood. Read it slow. Make it last. Hold it in as long as you can then exhale slowly. They are knocking on the door. Someone should let them in. I listened to a webinar yesterday about qualification with ge additive. According to Mark Shaw, they are investing heavily in in-process monitoring as it is hugely important to am. (pretty much exact quote) https://www.astm.org/standardization-news/?q=features/next-industrial-revolution-mj20.html glta