Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference - MAMC 2021

European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) is a non profitable organization promoting metal powder technologies. It represents the powder metallurgy (PM) industry within Europe and Internationally, and develop the future of PM. This is achieved through driving research projects, offer extensive basic and advanced training, numerous seminars and arranging the main yearly PM conference in...

As the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry moves towards series industrial production, the need for standards covering all aspects of the technology value chain becomes ever more prevalent. While standards and specifications for the various aspects of the AM materials and process chain continue to evolve, many such standards still need to be matured or are under consideration/development...

This plenary presentation is focused on the coming manufacturing systems for metal additive manufacturing controlled cyber-physically. Cyber-Physically controlled Smart Additive Manufacturing system (CPSAM) is a smart additive manufacturing system for realizing Industry 4.0/Smart Manufacturing on the shop floor via cyber-physical control scheme. CPSAM is capable of
1) autonomous abnormality...

Within this contribution, the transfer of knowledge from conventional fusion and deposition welding using electric arc processes to advanced direct energy deposition (DED) of multi-material structures in additive manufacturing will be presented. Gas metal arc and plasma welding have been used for decades to produce either joints or metallic deposits with desired properties. Also creating...

3D-printing of implants, tools or prostheses in a clinical setting is a highly challenging field in additive
manufacturing. It is crucial to guarantee patients as well as attending physicians at any time the highest
possible quality of material as well as printing process and this quality of course has to be reproducible
and on the highest possible level.
These requirements in the highly...

During the last 20 years, the terms referring to “Additive Manufacturing” (AM) have evolved significantly. In the early days, reference was made to a process called “rapid prototyping” and “rapid manufacturing” was the consecrated term. This terminology remained even beyond the time in which the community started realising that, in fact, it is not necessarily a rapid process. While fashionable...

One of the key restrictions of conventional technologies is that you have to choose between large quantities of same design with low costs or small quantities of individualized design with high costs. Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables us now to overcome this restriction. It is now possible to print different designs in the same process. This leads to the possibility to reduce the production...

The speech will also focus on the production of Metal Powders and Powder Metallurgical Steels and especially its associated production technologies like HIP, MIM and AM. As they are and will become key future core technologies for a number of demanding products and thus for the usage in different associated industries. The presentation will also highlight the actual supply and demand situation...