
Strengthen your industrial manufacturing processes
Mold making. Die casting. Part making. Now, the ready are evaluating how additive can drive greater returns on investment. Discover your additive advantage, from new business opportunities with tool steel and pure copper to reducing warpage on molded parts with conformal cooling.
Hit the shop floor running
Now, industrial manufacturers are evaluating how metal additive can drive greater returns on investment with enhanced products and streamlined processes.
With GE Additive as your trusted partner, you can:
• Increase productivity and part quality with conformal cooling channels.
• Save time and costs in maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO).
• Shorten lead time and lower expenditures with an efficient supply chain.
• Improve the final product with materials, like highly alloyed tool steel and pure copper.
• Leverage GE’s technical expertise and material parameters.
Download our playbook "Building the Business Case: Identifying Criteria to Measure ROI for Additive Manufacturing," where we outline 4 steps to create a comprehensive business case and move to production – faster.

Conformal cooling strategies
Design conformal cooling channels and features unmatched by machining. Surface and parallel cooling allows for improved temperature management and unique designs, such as spiral cooling ducts on the tool bodies and small-channel diameters.
Cooling channels form a mesh structure to enable uniform surface cooling of a glass insert for spectacles, just 2 to 3 mm beneath the mold contour.
Results:
High-pressure stability throughout the part’s arched structure
Even temperature control across large areas minimizes part distortion
Source: Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann GmbH

Additive Benefits for Industrial Manufacturing
Lower costs and simplified supply chains
AM allows you to consolidate parts, which may reduce your supply sources and logistical costs, and create parts on-demand (MRO).
Improved product performance
Reduce part warpage with additive cooling technologies.
Reduced production lead time
High flexibility during development can significantly reduce time to market.
Faster cycle time
Additive cooling technologies promote faster cycle times.
Flexible logistics
Additive allows distributed manufacturing and on-demand product solutions.

