ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING is the magazine devoted to industrial applications of 3D printing and digital layering technology. We cover the promise and the challenges of this technology for making functional tooling and end-use production parts.
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10 September 13-14, 2016 | @learnadditive | Connecting Additive Manufacturing + Production combined (and will only grow further integrated), and by compiling multiple processes into a single CNC tool, equipment can be more readily integrated into the Internet of Things (IoT). Some of these advantages have already been achieved. Others, such as fully integrated additive and subtractive machines, are only beginning to appear. While major advances in hybridization have occurred, much of the focus has been on simply adding an additive head (limited to directed-energy-deposition) to an existing subtractive machine tool base. These designs are useful for lighter or thin walled parts, but optimizing the process, adding new applications, and implementing other additive technologies besides DED, will require more dedicated research into machine systems that can make full use of both additive and subtractive technologies. Likewise, greater integration into the IoT holds great promise for improving shop efficiency. Sodick has recently achieved such a setup, with one subsidiary replacing conventional equipment with OPM. Now, thanks to the system's unmanned and integrated capability, our design department can remotely control the entire production site. It is likely that as the IoT grows in prominence, especially among larger manufacturing facilities, equipment that minimizes manned labor and interfaces well with the IoT will gain an advantage. 10:30 – 11:00 Using Biomimicry to Enhance Direct Metal Tooling for Injection Molds Keith Schneider | HARBEC Inc. For the past 18 months HARBEC, along with project partners NYSERDA, Cornell, RIT, and Terrapin Bright Green, has explored the nexus between how nature efficiently transfers heat and fluids, and applications for advancing thermal and fluid transfer within injection molds. Leveraging 3D printing, HARBEC and partners have demonstrated the potential for "growing molds" that incorporate principles of biomimicry, and result in more energy-efficient and higher- performance molds for manufacturing. The presentation covers: Principles of thermal and fluid transfer that are prevalent in nature, and which offer intelligent solutions for optimizing the transfer of heat and fluids in manufacturing tools. How additive manufacturing and 3D printing tools specifically, can incorporate principles of biomimicry into "grown molds" that enhance energy, productivity, and quality. How to design or build injection molds that have improved cooling for reduced cycle time and lower energy consumption through the application of direct metal tooling. How to identify the characteristics that nature uses to accomplish thermal and fluid transfer that best apply to cooling channel design for conformal cooling of mold. How AM can be optimized to produce injection molds that reduce cycle time because of enhanced cooling opportunities learned from the study of biomimicry. 11:00 – 11:30 Industrializing Additive Manufacturing Marc Saunders | Renishaw Inc. Additive Manufacturing is undergoing a revolution as it moves from the model and tooling shop onto the factory floor. A growing range of firms are deploying AM to create innovative new products that deliver increased performance in use that could not be produced conventionally. Marc Saunders will explore the drivers behind this transition and the increased demands that series production places on AM to deliver predictable, consistent parts. He will look at the chains of linked processes and tools that are needed to create an integrated manufacturing process with AM at its heart, and the controls that must be employed to make AM a mainstream manufacturing process. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14