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. 

Additive manufacturing is a burgeoning technology that is transforming manufacturing across multiple industries. formnext is the world's premier event that brings industry professionals together to share knowledge, connect with experts and explore how to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing.

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Visit us in hall 11.0, booth D41 and see how you can get on a faster path to production. Talk with our additive experts to learn about GE Additive’s:

Machines:

• Learn about our new, innovative Binder Jet Line and see how you can manufacture parts better, cheaper, faster and safer than castings and other manufacturing methods.
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• Discover high-quality material options available through our advanced materials and AP&C.

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• Learn how our Amp Software Platform can help mitigate trial and error and get you to production faster.

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GE Additive and AP&C are proud to be a Platinum Sponsor at this year's HI-AM conference.

HI-AM 2022 is the 5th annual gathering of NSERC Network for Holistic Innovation in Additive Manufacturing and the only academic conference in Canada focused exclusively on metal additive manufacturing. With hundreds of additive manufacturing experts and decision-makers from academia, research institutes, industry and government participating, HI-AM 2022 is an event not to be missed. Cohosted by McGill University and University of Waterloo, the focus of HI-AM 2022 is to provide a platform for the presentation of recent R&D advancements in the field of metal additive manufacturing under four research themes: (1) material development, (2) advanced process modeling, (3) process monitoring and control, (4) innovative AM processes/products.

If you are attending, please join our presentation:

Investigation of Organic Binders and Aluminum Powder Interactions and Sinterability of Aluminum Compacted Powder Parts
Presenters: Solgang Im and Arunkumar Natarajan, GE Additive, United States
June 22, 2022 at 4:40 p.m.

Click here to register and for more information.

Convergence of AM Aerospace and AM Energy

Join GE Additive at this year’s AM Industry Summit, a convergence of AM Aerospace and AM Energy. This conference brings together the global additive manufacturing aerospace and energy industries for a unique, hands-on, interactive event. Discover the latest materials, metals, and polymers, while uncovering design and technology solutions across the AM and 3D printing industry.

• Visit us at booth 19 to see the innovative parts we will have on display and talk to an additive expert.
• Attend our presentation: M Line and Ni718 - Enabling metal additive production through stability and stitching; Presenter: Sarah Ulbrich, GE Additive; June 21, 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Can’t attend in person? Check us out on July 13 during Virtual Day. You can access on-demand content from the live conference as well as the presentation Additive Manufacturing and GE Aviation’s GE9X Engine, during which GE’s Chris Philp will show the various additive parts that are included on the latest commercial engine.

Click here for more information on the show and to register for the live and virtual events. Use promo code AMSPN25 to save 25% off your conference pass.

Metal additive manufacturing offers numerous benefits for producing innovative parts, whether you intend to use the technology for prototyping or low-scale production or full industrialization. While important, the metal additive machine you select is only part of the equation when it comes to implementing additive manufacturing. A variety of tools are necessary to help you achieve success, whether it’s software, hardware or qualification assistance. And the tools you need can vary depending on what your manufacturing goals are (prototyping vs. production) and the industry for which you are producing parts (regulated vs. non-regulated).

Join this webinar during which GE Additive’s Halima Iqbal will explore the ancillaries available to lead to metal additive success. Halima will also introduce the “capabilities packages” available for the M2 Series 5 DMLM machine, which are customized to users’ needs.
 

Presenter

Halima Iqbal
Project Manager
GE Additive

Wir klären auf: Wie unterscheiden sich Metallpulverbetttechnologien?

Für die additive Fertigung von Metallanwendungen stehen eine Vielzahl von Pulverbettfusionstechnologien (PBF) zur Verfügung. Während sie sich in der Art und Weise ähneln, wie Teile Schicht für Schicht aus Metallpulver hergestellt werden, bietet jede Technologie ihre eigenen Vorteile. Aber woher wissen Sie, welche Option für Ihre Bedürfnisse geeignet ist, und warum sollten Sie eine der anderen vorziehen?

Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, in dem  GE Additive sich mit den Besonderheiten von Laser-Pulverbettfusion (L-PBF), Elektronenstrahl-Pulverbettfusion (EB-PBF) und Binder Jet befasst und deren Vorteile vergleicht. Es wird auch erklärt, wann Sie sich für eine andere entscheiden sollten und welche Branchen bei der Einführung der PBF-Technologie für Metall führend sind.

GE Aviation garnered international recognition for the development of the LEAP fuel nozzle, the first jet engine part designed specifically for metal additive. Hundreds of thousands of the fuel nozzles have been produced since its introduction, ushering in the era of metal additive production.

But, what has been happening since the fuel nozzle was developed? Where has GE Aviation taken metal additive beyond the production of that single part and what have they learned from their experiences?

Join GE Aviation’s Benito Trevino and Chris Philp for this free webinar as they reveal how the early experience creating an additive production part has evolved into the industrialization of parts and systems using additive manufacturing across multiple engines. They will also discuss how enhancements to GE Additive’s M2 Series 5 machine have made it an ideal machine for aerospace production.

Presenters

Benito Trevino
General Manager for GE Aviation’s Additive Integrated Product Team
GE Aviation

Benito Trevino serves as the general manager for GE Aviation’s Additive Integrated Product Team (IPT) and has overall leadership responsibility for the additive product development site (ATC), the additive side of the Auburn production facility, global launch responsibility for additive hardware inclusive of Avio and strategic alignment to all global engineering additive labs (BEC, EDC, GEIQ, TTC and the Turin Additive Lab).

Benito began his career with GE in 1999 on the Edison Program with GE Lighting. He had multiple roles at GE Lighting before transitioning to the Aeroderivatives business within GE Power in 2005. He held roles of increasing responsibility at Power, including serving as packaging systems leader for the LM2500 product line.

In 2012 Benito transitioned to GE Aviation as a product definition engineering sub section manager in Lynn, Massachusetts, and was subsequently promoted to evaluation engineering section leader in 2014. He moved to Victorville, California, in 2015 to serve as the flight test operation site leader and was promoted to lead test systems engineering in 2016 which brought him back to Evendale.

In 2019, Benito was selected to serve as lean deployment champion for Engineering. During his tenure, he launched the Engineering Kaizen Promotion Office and partnered with other engineering leaders and lean deployment champions to drive continuous improvement in the areas of employee safety, inclusion & diversity, engine rotor hardware robustness, hot section durability, customer responsiveness, product cost & producibility and technology maturation. He also drove effective execution and rigorous governance in the areas of compliance, operations, lean deployment and employee safety.

Most recently, Benito served as customer technology programs director for the GE90 and GP7200 product lines where he partnered cross functionally to improve time on wing (TOW) performance through continuous improvement activities in the areas of on/near wing technology, shop visit workscoping, cost and TAT, material demand forecasting and CSA productivity.

Chris Philp
Additive Technology Center Site Leader
GE Aviation

Chris Philp is the site leader of GE Aviation’s Additive Technology Center (ATC) in the US.

Originally from the UK, he holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield and has extensive experience in both non-conventional machining and additive manufacturing. Having previously worked in various divisions of both GKN Aerospace & GE Aviation, Chris currently leads a 150-person site, dedicated to the development and industrialization of commercial and military additive components for GE Aviation.

Chris has been the main proponent for introducing Concept Laser machines into GE Aviation’s additive machine portfolio over the past five years. He has an in-depth understanding of and appreciation for what it takes to industrialize additive manufacturing processes for the aviation industry.