Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference - MAMC 2022

Upcoming, increasingly stringent greenhouse gas as well as emission limits demand for powertrain electrification throughout all vehicle applications. Increasing complexity of electrified powertrain architectures require an overall system approach combining modular component technology with integration and industrialization requirements when heading for further significant efficiency optimization.
At the same time focus on reduced development time, product cost and minimized additional investment demand reuse of current production, machining and assembly facilities as far as possible.
Up to date additive manufacturing is an established prototype component, as well as tooling technology in the powertrain development process, accelerating procurement time and cost, as well as allowing to validate a significantly increased number of variants.
The production applications of optimized, dedicated AM-based component design however are still limited.
Focus of the paper is on AM-based optimization of appropriate powertrain components, combining functional optimization with AM-process related production design architecture.