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[Nobahamas]

What draw my attention in the conference call:


In the 27th minute:
In answer to the question about system advancements, the answer was that building speed and accuracy has no first priority.
Industrialisation of the process for continuus production is the first priority. For example to make the systems more robust.

I think I have understood what he meant:
You need different system qualifications when you are producing large series of the same product, compared to small series or single products in every building cycle.
We have read about it in the partnership announcement with GKN as well.

With continuous use, knowing the high chamber temperatures, I can imagine calibration is often needed.
Building under vacuum and these high temperatures could cause failures of the seals.

With what I have read earlier, heating up of the production chamber, and cooling down of it takes longer than the building time of the products!

I suppose the next generation EBM System is a production line with multiple chambers, all connected.
In my believe the first step would be a connected cooling-down chamber

Additive Industries has a system like that, a connected stress relief unit (needed with SLM production)
http://additiveindustries.com/Industrial-am-systems/Metalfab1
http://www.gkn.com/media/News/Pages/GKN-Aerospace-agrees-strategic-%E2%80%98additive-manufacturing%E2%80%99-partnership-with-Arcam.aspx