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A powder atomization plant for the production of high-quality metal powder for Additive Manufacturing (AM) was developed at SMS group. Low cost and simultaneously highest quality powders are key enablers for AM on its way to the next revolution in manufacturing. SMS strives for highest availability, productivity and yield of the powder atomization process through implementation of data-driven analysis of the process.
Due to the activities in the Additive Manufacturing Competence Center at SMS in Mönchengladbach, the powder production process become constantly optimized economically and technically by the aggregated knowledge and data at the pilot plant.
The powder production plant is highly digitalized and generates massive cloud-based production data. Countless sensors in the plant ensure the automated data collection during production. Material flows, pressures, temperatures and positions are recorded in the database. Massive initial data has been collected here over the last two years. SMS is working on the data evaluation and the implementation of Artificial Intelligence. Goals like a self-optimizing process, predictive manufacturing and even predictive maintenance can be realized and guarantees the costumer to be successful.