Electron Beam Melting is a cost-efficient and proven additive manufacturing solution that has developed rapidly over the last years as a result of dedicated system development. Significant improvements have been made concerning system productivity, system reliability and part quality of built parts, turning EBM into a mature production technology. Today, EBM is an integral part of several production chains in various applications.

EBM is used for production of CE-certified and FDA-cleared orthopedic implants. EBM is also used for production of aero engine components by several OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in the aerospace industry, with the common goal to use the EBM technology for series production of commercial aero engine components.

Recent innovations in beam control have led to a revolutionary new melting strategy using point exposures instead of traditional hatched line melt. With Point Melt, a new journey begins in what can be achieved with EBM concerning building without any supports; surface finish and microstructural control.

Join this webinar as GE Additive’s Mattias Fager describes how Point Melt was developed and explores the many benefits that result from this innovation.

Speaker

Mattias Fager

Senior Staff Engineer, Materials Science and Engineering, GE Additive

With a background in solid state physics, Mattias Fager joined the metal additive industry in its genesis in 2001. Mattias has experience in research and development as well as sales and application development, as both as manager and tech lead. He has been an integral part in both introducing AM to the medical industry as well as guiding the GE9X LPT EBM production through the engine test programs. Mattias is one of the true process architects behind the success of EBM.

Successfully deploying metal additive binder jetting technology cannot be accomplished by simply buying and installing a machine. It requires a complete, configurable ecosystem of production hardware and software that addresses critical business objectives:  safety, quality, cost, and scale.

In order to achieve those goals, GE Additive’s Binder Jet hardware and processes were designed and tested for scaled throughput and high uptime.  The closed-loop, inert material handling system was developed with high EHS standards and minimal powder interaction. And the patented GE binding agent allows printing, depowering and sintering large complex parts with superior green strength, which promotes production automation processes.

Appropriate geometric tolerancing and dimensional control is achieved by the use of GE Additive’s Amp™ software, a single data flow from design to accurate final parts. The software characterizes the sintering process, simulates the expected deformation, and compensates the geometry to yield near-net-shape parts.

Join this session to learn more about how the GE Additive Binder Jet Line is helping customers establish full-scale production.

Speaker:

Sammie Rowe

System Validation Engineer
GE Additive

Sammie Rowe is an accomplished chemical engineer with a passion for additive manufacturing and the potential of disruptive technologies that will revolutionize the industry. She has been working at GE Additive for the past four years, where she has played a critical role in the R+D, and subsequent technology maturation of GE’s Binder Jet products.

During her time at GE Additive, Sammie has been involved in early parameter and binder development, as well as system validation. For the past three years, she has been focused on testing and validating the Series 3 Binder Jet product. Her work has helped to optimize the product performance and ensure its quality.

Sammie is particularly excited about Binder Jet’s ability to produce complex parts more quickly and at a lower cost than many other manufacturing methods. This has significant implications for a range of industries, from aerospace and automotive to healthcare and consumer products. Sammie is passionate about Binder Jet technology and looks forward to sharing how GE Additive has created a quality, production-ready machine.

During her time at GE, Sammie has received one patent and filed four others related to Binder Jet.

Prior to joining GE Additive, Sammie spent three years at GE Renewable Energy. While there, she completed the Edison Engineering Development Program and moved on to lead the testing and validation of the pitch-bearing system for onshore wind turbines.

Sammie graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s in chemical engineering. She furthered her education by completing a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inspired by magnetic levitation technology that is being employed to propel high-speed trains, MagLev Aero is applying this next-level technology to the concept of electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The company's breakthrough MagLev HyperDrive™ platform will enable a new generation of eVTOL designs that are dramatically more quiet, efficient, safe, sustainable, and emotionally appealing to the mass market.  

To achieve their goals, MagLev has enlisted GE Additive’s AddWorks™ consultancy team, recognized for extensive additive industry experience, to help take advantage of metal AM for optimal weight, performance, and repeatability in their design.
 
Join this webinar to hear from MagLev's co-founder and chairman of the board, Roderick Randall, and GE Additive’s AddWorks team leader, Dave Chapin, as they explore this exciting new opportunity in air travel and how additive manufacturing will play an important role in enabling magnetic levitation propulsion to advance urban air mobility.
 

Speakers:

Roderick Randall
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board
MagLev Aero

Roderick Randall is a highly accomplished tech entrepreneur, senior executive and venture capitalist with more than 25 years of experience in the wireless, telecommunications, computer-networking and electric vehicle industries. He is the co-founder and chairman of the board of MagLev Aero Inc., a pioneering electric aerospace technology company headquartered in Boston that is poised to revolutionize the industry – as well as a member of The Board of Trustees at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology.

Mr. Randall is an executive partner at Siris Capital Group, LLC (since 2010), and had 10 years of experience as general partner at two venture capital firms. His venture investments and PE board positions have included Tekelec (sold to Oracle), TNS (sold to Koch Borthers), Stratus Technologies (sold to SGH), YMAX (magicJackVocaltec NASDAQ: CALL), Dynamicsoft (sold to Cisco Systems), Bitfone (sold to Hewlett-Packard Company), Snowshore (sold to Brooktrout/Cantata), FusionOne (sold to Synchronoss), ProQuent Systems (sold to Bytemobile), Bytemobile (sold to Citrix) and Visage Mobile.

Mr. Randall started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff/supervisor and holds several US patents. He currently also serves on the boards of Fisker Inc. (NYSE: FSR) and Mavenir Systems Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Dave Chapin
AddWorks Application Consulting Engineering Team Leader
GE Additive

Dave Chapin has the privilege to lead GE Additive’s AddWorks Application Consulting Engineering Team. His team works daily to drive the additive epiphany with customers.Over the last 20 years, Dave has focused on bringing new technology and innovation to commercial products at GE’s Global Research, Power, Aviation and Additive divisions.

Prior to joining GE Additive, Dave most recently spent five years developing production additive aerospace parts for GE Aviation. Dave’s global consulting team brings its additive hardware design, materials, and process expertise along with GE’s deep technology expertise to partner with clients and accelerate their additive journey.

Dave graduated from Union College with his BSME and from Georgia Tech with his MSME. He resides in Cincinnati, OH with his family.

EBM-Prozesse verfügbar ist? Möchten Sie Strategien für das Scannen von vollständig ungebundenen Strahlen entwickeln?

Durch die Nutzung der einzigartigen Fähigkeiten zur schnellen Änderung der Strahlleistung und -position bietet EBM das Potenzial, Mikrostrukturen und damit die Leistung verschiedener Materialsysteme maßzuschneidern und zu optimieren. Durch die Möglichkeit, völlig freie Scanstrategien zu entwickeln kann die mikrostrukturelle Kontrolle noch weiter entwickeln und optimiert werden. Dies führt zu zusätzliche Flexibilität bei der Material- und Prozessentwicklung. Die behandelten Themen sind:

In diesem Webinar erfahren Sie mehr über den EBM Research Mode, welche Möglichkeiten es gibt und was er beinhaltet.

Funktionen und Inhalt des EBM Research Mode:

• Wie Sie mit dem EBM Research Mode das volle Potenzial und die Freiheit ausschöpfen
• Wie der EBM Research Mode Ihre schnellere Materialentwicklung unterstützen kann, um einzigartige Materialeigenschaften zu erzielen
• So visualisieren Sie Ihre Scanstrategie, bevor Sie überhaupt zum Computer gehen

Eine Live-Demonstration aller Funktionen
Ein Demonstrationsfall, in dem optimierte Scanstrategien verwendet wurden. 

Sprecher:

Massimiliano (Max) Di Domenico
Staff Engineer
GE Additive

Massimiliano (Max) Di Domenico ist Teil der EBM-Produktmanagement-Organisation. In seiner derzeitigen Position leitet er Initiativen im Zusammenhang mit der Erweiterung der EBM-Modalität auf neue Materialien und Anwendungen. Er ist auch für die unternehmensweite Koordination des bestehenden Flottenmanagements verantwortich.

Zuvor war er im Beratungsteam von GE Additive AddWorks tätig und half Kunden dabei, ihren Weg zur additiven Fertigung einzuleiten und zu beschleunigen. Er hat das Produktportfolio von GE Additive auf die Bedürfnisse der Kunden zugeschnitten, unabhängig davon, ob es um Business Case-Analysen, Schulungen, Beratungs- und Ingenieurdienstleistungen oder Industrialisierung und Qualifizierung ging.

Max kam 2018 zu GE Additive und leitete die Qualifizierung von GE Additive Maschinen bei einem großen europäischen Luft- und Raumfahrt-OEM. Allein im Jahr 2020 lieferte er mehr als 50 Kunden maßgeschneiderte Produktlösungen für die Implementierung der additiven Fertigung in Märkten wie Luft- und Raumfahrt, Transportwesen, Medizin, Motorsport und Automobilindustrie.

Max verfügt über fast 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der Luft- und Raumfahrt- und Antriebsindustrie mit Rollen in Forschung, Entwicklung und Produktion. In Zusammenarbeit mit großen EU-Luft- und Raumfahrtunternehmen (OEM, Tier 1) richtete er große europäische Luftfahrttechnologieprogramme (über 10 Mio. €) für kommerzielle Luftfahrtprodukte der nächsten Generation ein und leitete diese.

Bevor er zu GE Additive kam, arbeitete Max für GE Aviation als leitender Ingenieur für Verbrennung und für Rolls-Royce plc als Ingenieur für funktionale Systeme - Noise.

Max hat einen Master of Aerospace Engineering von der Universität Rom und einen Doktortitel in Luft- und Raumfahrt von der Universität Stuttgart.

Do you want to learn about the extended flexibility now available for EBM processes? Do you want to create fully unbound beam scanning strategies?

By utilizing the unique capabilities to rapidly change beam power and position, EBM offers the potential to tailor and optimize microstructures, hence the performance of various material systems. With the possibility to create fully free scan strategies, it will be possible to develop and optimize microstructural control even further; something that facilitates added flexibility in material and process development.

In this webinar you will learn more about EBM Research Mode, what the possibilities are and what it contains. Subjects covered are:

• EBM Research Mode functionality and content
• How you can utilize the full potential and freedom with EBM Research Mode
• How EBM Research Mode can assist your accelerated material development to create unique material properties
• How to visualize your scan strategy before even going to the machine
• A live demonstration of all features
• A demonstrator case where optimized scanning strategies have been used
   

Speaker:

Joakim Ålgårdh holds the position of senior product manager within the GE Additive team. In his role Joakim is responsible for the GE Additive EBM Q10plus platform, a well-recognized system in the AM community that was originally released 2013. Joakim is also responsible for the EBM Research offerings, both from a hardware and software perspective. 

Joakim has more than 13 years of experience with EBM, both with GE Additive and as a customer and researcher on the technology. He joined GE Additive in 2019 as EBM external research lead, responsible for all external research activities related to EBM within GE Additive. He coordinated research projects in collaborations with universities, institutes and industries in Europe and USA. 

Prior to joining GE, Joakim was a business developer and senior researcher at the Metals Research Institute in Sweden (SWERIM), where he was responsible the institute’s EBM research. In this role he worked with both Swedish and European industry to advance the utilization of EBM in industrial environments. Joakim also worked at Arcam, before the company was integrated into the GE Additive family.

Joakim holds a master’s degree in materials engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and a PhD in materials science, focus on EBM, from Uppsala University, Sweden. 

Die Innovation in der additiven Fertigung von Metallen schreitet rasant voran. Da sich die Verbesserungen in fast allen Prozessschritten und kritischen Teilsystemen innerhalb der gesamten additiven Prozesskette fortsetzen, ist die Verbesserung der Produktivität heute sicherlich eines der wichtigsten Themen. Die Verbesserung der Produktivität ist ein grundlegender und notwendiger Schritt, um Business Cases für die additive Fertigung zu schaffen und dient als ein zentrales Argument für die Verdrängung herkömmlicher Herstellungstechniken. Infolge der Erhöhung der Zahl der Energiequellen zur Produktivitätssteigerung ergeben sich eine Vielzahl von Herausforderungen. Diese betreffen die tatsächliche Leistung, Genauigkeit und auch die Langzeitstabilität von Multilasermaschinen.

Da sich die additive Fertigung von Metallen von der Herstellung von Kleinserien oder Einzelteilfertigung immer weiter entwickelt, erkennen nun zahlreiche Hersteller das Wachstum und das Potenzial der additiven Fertigung in der Serienproduktion. Die Concept Laser M Line von GE Additive ist mehr als eine einzelne Maschine. Es handelt sich um ein System, das speziell für die additive Fertigung von Metallen und im Hinblick auf Sicherheit, Zuverlässigkeit, Wiederholbarkeit und Effizienz entwickelt wurde. Anstatt bestehende Maschinen nachzurüsten, hat GE Additive die M Line von Grund auf neu entwickelt und dabei einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz zum Verständnis, zur Messung und kontinuierlichen Verbesserung dieses Multilaser-Produktionssystems integriert.

Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, um mehr über die M Line zu erfahren und wie sie neue Maßstäbe für die additive Fertigung von Metallen setzt.

Sprecher:

Benedikt Roidl ist Senior Engineer bei GE Additive mit mehr als fünf Jahren Erfahrung im Bereich additive Fertigung. Während seiner Karriere bei GE Additive hatte er verschiedene Positionen im Ingenieurwesen inne. Davor arbeitete er an der RWTH Aachen, bei Eovent und an der Universität von Tokyo. Benedikt hat in numerischer Simulation und Aerodynamik promoviert und verfügt über mehr als 15 Jahre Erfahrung im Ingenieurwesen.

Innovation in metal additive manufacturing continues at pace. As improvements continue in almost every process step and critical sub-system across the entire additive process chain, productivity improvement is certainly one of the most important topics today. lmproving productivity is a fundamental and necessary step to enable additive manufacturing business cases and compelling rationale to displace conventional manufacturing techniques. As a result of increasing the number of energy sources to increase productivity there is a myriad of challenges that arise. These are touching actual multi-laser machine performance, accuracy, or long-term stability.

As metal additive manufacturing continues to evolve from the embryonic stage of producing low-volume or single-part builds, manufacturers are seeing the growth and potential of AM at full-scale production. GE Additive’s M Line is more than a single machine. It is a system created specifically for metal additive production, developed around safety, reliability, repeatability, and efficiency. Instead of retrofitting existing machines, GE Additive built the M Line from the ground up, incorporating a holistic approach to understanding, measuring, and continuously improving this multi-laser production system.

Join this session to learn more about the M Line and how it is setting the standard for metal additive production.

Speaker:

Benedikt Roidl is a senior engineer at GE Additive with more than five years of experience in additive. During his career at GE Additive, he has held several different roles in engineering. Before that, he worked at RWTH Aachen University, Eovent and the University of Tokyo. Benedikt holds a PhD in numerical simulation & aerodynamics and has over 15 years of experience in engineering.

Die additive Fertigung von Metallen bietet zahlreiche Vorteile für die Herstellung innovativer Teile. Als eines der führenden Unternehmen in der AM-Branche hat GE Additive Optimierungen an der M2-Maschinenarchitektur vorgenommen — vom Gasfluss und der Optik bis hin zur intelligenten Software. Diese Verbesserungen haben zu einem höchsten Maß an Wiederholbarkeit, Zuverlässigkeit und Teilequalität geführt. 

Christopher Schunk von GE Additive erklärt, wie die Stabilität und Qualität der M2 zu neuen Produktivitätsverbesserungen geführt haben. Damit wird sichergestellt, dass Sie Ihre Gesamtkosten pro Teil optimieren können, indem sowohl die Produktivität als auch die Bedieneffizenz verbessert werden.

Sprecher:

Christopher ist ein „Advanced Lead Process Engineer” und ist Prozess- und Materialexperte. In seiner Rolle unterstützt er bei der Entwicklung von Titanwerkstoffen auf verschiedenen DMLM-Maschinenplattformen. Der aktuelle Entwicklungsschwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung von hochproduktiven Parametern. Vor seiner Zeit bei GE Additive arbeitete Christopher als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg im Bereich Werkstoffwissenschaften, wo er eine Promotion im Bereich Material- und Mikrostrukturcharakterisierung abschloss.

Metal additive manufacturing offers numerous benefits for producing innovative parts. As leaders in the AM industry, GE Additive has introduced optimizations to the M2 machine architecture – from gas flow and optics all the way to intelligent software – which have led to the highest class of repeatability, reliability and part quality. 

Join GE Additive’s Halima Iqbal as she explains how the M2’s stability and quality have led to new productivity enhancements to ensure you can optimize your total cost per part with both build rate productivity and operator productivity improvements.

Speaker:

Halima Iqbal is the product manager for the GE Additive DMLM M2 machine. Originally from the UK, Halima started her career at GE Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio, working in various roles within the Edison Engineering Development Program. In 2019 Halima relocated to Lichtenfels, Germany, to drive operational efforts around the launch of the M2 Series 5 product. She works on the product management team, continuing to drive execution of critical M2 programs and shaping the future of the product with the cross-functional teams. 

The efficiencies of additive manufacturing can offer opportunities to expand margin, but at what cost? And how can you ensure product equivalency of additively manufactured large joint implants as you transition from traditional manufacturing.  

Join this webinar, hosted by GE Additive and Orchid, to learn about the materials, testing, manufacturing operations and regulatory path of additively manufactured large joints implants. The session will also explore how today’s technologies allow you to leverage the benefits of AM without sacrificing quality or performance and unlock efficiency with zero compromise. 

You will also learn about… 

• The effects of additive manufacturing on material properties, strength and cleanliness 

• The 510(k) path for additively manufactured large joint implants 

• The less-talked-about complexities of additive manufacturing, such as post processes and machining, to achieve the required tolerances and performance factors 

Speakers

Dan Frydryk
Advanced Lead Engineer
GE Additive

Daniel Frydryk is an Advanced Lead Engineer working in GE Additive’s Materials and Processing engineering organization. Daniel joined GE in 2017 where he spent time as a mechanical applications engineer teaching customers how to think about manufacturing in a layerwise fashion. 2019 brought Daniel back to his roots and into his current role as a materials engineer where he now focuses on titanium applications in all powder bed modalities as well as stainless steel and copper alloys for GE Additive’s binder jet products. His favorite part of the job is watching customers have the “eureka!” moment when a particular part of additive manufacturing suddenly makes sense.

Before joining GE Additive, Daniel gained experience with aerospace-grade alloys while forging titanium and nickel superalloy rotating parts for the aerospace and power generation industries. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), respectively.

Joseph Farinella
Quality Director, Orchid Orthopedic Solutions

With more than 14 years in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, Joe’s passion and expertise lie in the areas of Quality Systems and Regulatory Science. He is currently responsible for quality and compliance at five of Orchid’s manufacturing facilities specializing in medical device manufacturing.