Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference 2019

Additive manufacturing is becoming more common as a manufacturing technique, especially in tooling, but the technology is still rather new. It allows shorter lead time and design freedom such as conformal cooling and in-printed porosity resulting in shorter process cycle times, longer tool life and higher quality of components produced. Sensors and actuators can also be printed in the critical areas for monitoring the working condition and online adjust the tooling process. The development of powder is still at an early stage and interaction between printing parameters, powder chemistry and morphology as well as hybrid-tool building and post processing consideration have to be taken into the account to achieve similar and better performance of a printed part compared to the conventionally produced. The presentation provides the examples on the above mention aspects indicating that additive is the tomorrows manufacturing technology.