Name: Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference - MAMC 2026
Start: 2026-11-10T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Arcotel Wimberger

Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference - MAMC 2026

from Tuesday, 10 November 2026 (08:00) to Thursday, 12 November 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 9 November 2026
Tuesday, 10 November 2026

10:00 Registration
Registration
10:00 - 10:45

10:45 Opening
Opening
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Room 1
11:00 Plenary Talk: Plenary Talks
Plenary Talks
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

11:00 From Prototype to Profit: The European Metal AM Landscape in 2026 - Arno Held (Held Holding GmbH)

11:30 The progress of Metal Additive Manufacturing in China - Ke Huang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

12:00 Latest Developments: Powder Metallurgy - Special Steels - Titanium - Benedikt Blitz (SMR Premium GmbH)
12:30 Business Lunch
Business Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 AM of Refractory Metals - Highlight Session
14:00 - 15:50
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

14:00 Additive Manufacturing of Refractory Metals – Status, Challenges, and Outlook - Bernhard Mayr-Schmoelzer (Plansee SE)

14:30 Additive Manufacturing of Molybdenum: Defect Mechanisms and Alloying Strategy for Fully Dense and Crack-free Molybdenum Parts by PBF-LB/M - Jakob Braun (Universität Innsbruck)

14:50 MoC0.4 – From Lab to Industry in PBF-LB of C-alloyed Molybdenum - Benedikt Distl (Plansee SE)

15:10 Additive Manufacturing of Tungsten: Challenges and Solutions in Laser PBF - Lukas Zelger (Universität Innsbruck)

15:30 Optimizing Additive Manufacturing of Niobium: A Pathway to Advancing Superconducting Technologies - Daniel Pattis (University of Innsbruck)
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 Design for AM & Engineering
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Room 2 - Arabella
Contributions

16:20 Optimized Non-Contact Support Design for Low-Angle Overhangs in Ti-6Al-4V Laser Powder Bed Fusion - Ohseop Kim (Inha University)

16:40 Pressure Impulse Testing of Additively Manufactured Hydraulic Components: Influence of Hot Isostatic Pressing on Fatigue Life - Zita Tappeiner (RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Fluid Power Drives and Systems (ifas))

17:00 Enabling Low NOx Hydrogen Combustion Technologies by Design for Additive Manufacturing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion - Benjamin Meier-Leeb (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences)

17:20 Additive Design of Lightweight Gears: A Direct FEA Workflow from Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces to Structural Stiffness Evaluation - Aleksandra Bednarek (Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering)
Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Deposition Processes
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

16:20 Manufacturing of 316L/WC Metal Matrix Composites using a Hybrid Wire–Powder DED-Arc Plasma System - Ziad Mohamed (Chair of Materials Engineering of Additive Manufacturing, Technical University of Munich)

16:40 Embedding Fiber-Optic Sensors in Metallic Components via LPBF for In-Situ Fuel Cell Diagnostics - Markus Reiter (AVL List GmbH)

17:00 Phase Transformation Kinetics and Lattice Parameter Evolution in LPBF Ti-6Al-4V: An In-Situ Synchrotron Study - Francesca Friso (Institute of Materials and Process Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland)

17:20 Hybrid L-PBF Scanning Strategies for Additively Manufactured Ultra Thin-Walled Ti-6Al-4V TPMS Implants - Karel Brulík (Brno University of Technology)
17:40 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:40 - 19:30
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
08:30 MAM in the Defense Sector - Highlight Session: Industry Perspective
Industry Perspective
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

08:30 Additive Manufacturing at Airbus Defence and Space - A way to secure part availability in the military aerospace domain - David Schimbäck (Airbus Defense & Space)

09:00 Decentralized Metal and Polymer Additive Manufacturing: An Integrated Framework for On-Demand Sustainment in Defense Applications - Juan Carlos Redondo (Airbus Defense and Space)

09:20 WAAM (Wire Arc Manufacturing) – Manufacturing a Military Environment - Michael Eberhard (Fronius International GmbH)

09:40 From Damage Detection to Digital Qualification: The Future of Additive Repair and Spare-Part Production - Riccardo Tonello (Danish Technological Institute)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Sinter based MAM Processes
10:30 - 11:30
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

10:30 Photolithographically manufactured components made of stainless steel and copper – A comparison of the processes - Christian Gierl-Mayer (TU Wien)

10:50 Multiphysics Modeling of Shell Printing in Binder-Jetted 17-4PH Stainless Steel - Ziping Sang (Institute of Applied Powder Metallurgy and Ceramics at RWTH Aachen e. V. (IAPK), 52062 Aachen, Germany)

11:10 Sinter-based Additive Manufacturing of Stainless Steel – Debinding and Sintering Strategies for FFF and LMM Samples - Alexander Holzer (TU Wien)
11:30 Business Lunch
Business Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
13:00 Process- and Quality Control
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

13:00 Quo Vadis Additive Manufacturing? From Process Understanding to Predictive Quality Control - Yannick Schneider (Pankl Racing Systems AG)

13:20 Optimization of Processing Parameters for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Manufactured Rare-earth Free MnBi Magnets - Andrea Bachmaier (Erich Schmid Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

13:40 Validation of Imprintec Indentation Plastometry for Rapid Mechanical Property Screening of LPBF Ti-6Al-4V - Ashish Gahlot (Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH and University of Augsburg)
Recent Research Topics
13:00 - 14:20
Room: Room 2 - Arabella
Contributions

13:00 DEVELOPING A HYBRID POWDER-WROUGHT HARDENED STAINLESS ALLOY STEEL FOR INJECTION MOULDING TOOL APPLICATIONS USING LASER POWDER BED FUSION - Simon Chan (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

13:20 Root Cause Investigation of Dimensional Deviations in Precision CNC Machining of Additively Manufactured Components Using Support Structures as Fixtures - Mustafiz Shaikh (Queens University Belfast)

13:40 Influence of initial porosity on the microstructure and mechanical properties of PBF-LB/M duplex stainless steel after hot isostatic pressing - Pascal Ebener (IWM - RWTH Aachen University)

14:00 MANUFACTURE OF FEEDSTOCKS FOR AM OF (INTER) METALLIC MATERIALS – RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIALS IN EIGA TECHNOLOGY - Matthias Achtermann (AMG TITANIUM)
14:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:20 - 14:50
14:50 Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Deposition Processes
14:50 - 16:30
Room: Room 2 - Arabella
Contributions

14:50 Increased Manufacturing Tolerance in w-DED Additive Manufacturing Using Plasma Transferred Arc - Hanxing Zhang (Welding and Additive Manufacturing Centre, Cranfield University, UK)

15:10 Binder-Assisted Attachment of Cr₃C₂ Particles to Tool Steel Powders for Stable PBF-LB/M Processing - Oliver Bürgi (Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University)

15:30 LPBF Processing and Characterization of Pure Ta and Ta-10W Alloy for Very High-Temperature Applications - Alberto Barci (Università degli Studi di Padova DFA, INFN Padova)

15:50 Effect of Thermal Conditions on Microstructure Evolution and Wear Behavior of Fe-Cr-Nb Coatings Produced by Laser Cladding - Julius Arnhold (Chair of Materials Engineering of Additive Manufacturing, Technical University of Munich)

16:10 PBF-EB/M Process Optimization for High-Quality Tungsten Components - Siegfried Bähr (JEOL (Germany) GmbH)
Process- and Quality Control
14:50 - 16:10
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

14:50 Effect of Preheating Temperature on Retained Austenite in LPBF Processed - Negar Panahi (Uddeholm AB / Karlstad University)

15:10 Multi-Sensor Analysis of Thermal History and Process Stability in Arc-based Directed Energy Deposition with Varying Torch Angles and Positioning - Thomas Reindl (Technical University of Munich)

15:30 Geometric Process Parameter Relationships for Weaving in Wire Arc Directed Energy Deposition - Thomas Kopf (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology)

15:50 Zero-Defect Manufacturing through Layer-Wise AI Monitoring in Metal Additive Manufacturing: From Test Cubes to Drones - David Wimler (JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH)
17:30 Conference Dinner "Buschenschank Fuhrgassl-Huber" Departure by bus. Meeting point in front of the Hotel: 5.30 pm
Conference Dinner "Buschenschank Fuhrgassl-Huber" Departure by bus. Meeting point in front of the Hotel: 5.30 pm
17:30 - 20:30
Thursday, 12 November 2026
09:00 MAM in the Defense Sector - Highlight Session
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

09:00 From Innovation to Capability – Additive Manufacturing as a Strategic Asset for Europe - Sascha Hartig (Stratasys (Defense Sales Leader))

09:30 No Sovereignty Without Metallurgy: Why Metal Additive Manufacturing Must Become Europe’s Strategic Technology - Constantinos Goulas (University of Twente)

10:00 Investigations of the Applicability of Wire-arc Additive Manufacturing for Spare Part Production and Repair in the Context of Battlefield Repair - Michael Unger (LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH)

10:20 Spare parts engineering and additive manufacturing responding to specific operational scenarios of armed forces - Rudolf Gradinger (LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Digitalisation & Artificial Intelligence
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Room 1 - Boheme
Contributions

11:30 Data Driven Machine Learning Approach for 3D Flow Prediction in Hydrogen Burners - Luca Juris (Chair for Digital Additive Production DAP - RWTH Aachen)

11:50 Influence of Scan Vector Metadata Channel Encodings on Optical Tomography Image Prediction in PBF-LB/M - Sven Erb (Chair for Digital Additive Production DAP - RWTH Aachen)

12:10 Process Fundamentals for Potential AI Driven Geometry Adaptive Process Control in Laser Powder Bed Fusion - Luke Schüller (Fraunhofer-Institut für Lasertechnik ILT)
Simulation
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Room 2 - Arabella
Contributions

11:10 Process Simulation of a WA-DED Multi-material Joint for Cryogenic Applications - Hugo Drexler (LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH)

11:30 GPU-Accelerated Discrete Element Simulation of Powder Bed Formation in Binder Jetting - Jules Topart (Université of Picardie Jules Verne)

11:50 Anisotropic Gaussian-Process Surrogates for LPBF Thermo-Mechanical Calibration - Min Soo Kim (Inha University)

12:10 Physics-Guided Gaussian Process Classification of Cracks in LPBF with Ti-6Al-4V Parts - Emily Esmeralda Carvajal Camelo (Materialise, LMSD Lab, KULeuven)
12:30 Closing
Closing
12:30 - 12:45
Room: Room 1

12:45 Business Lunch
Business Lunch
12:45 - 14:10