3D printing reshapes mechanical engineering
Additive manufacturing is making its presence felt. In Halls 6 and 7 as well as at the Convention Center developments are gaining dimensions.
18 Mar 2016Share
Whether power plant construction, aerospace, medical technology or the automotive industry,
Among the 3D printing specialists who are exhibiting primarily in Hall 7 in Hannover is Altair Engineering. As "the most comprehensive CAE platform available on the market" HyperWorks provides "leading industry solutions for modeling, analysis, visualization and data management for linear and nonlinear applications as well as structural optimization, fluid-structure-interaction and dynamic multi-body simulation for the FEM, CFD and MBS fields," according to the manufacturer.
Altair is exhibiting for the fifth time at HANNOVER MESSE. According to Mirko Bromberger, Director of Marketing & Additive Manufacturing Strategy at Altair, there was a simple reason for the fact that the company expanded its exhibition space last year. "HANNOVER MESSE's focus on lightweight construction and additive manufacturing corresponds more and more to our portfolio." Developed for a good 5000 customers from various industries, the company supports simulation technology that allows designs, processes and decisions to be optimized. "Without a paradigm shift in development and construction, too much potential is wasted, especially in terms of fiber composite components and products created with additive manufacturing," says Mirko Bromberger. "The possibilities inherent in the freedom of design cannot be exploited using conventional construction methods."
On April 28 at 2:05 p.m. Bromberger will be presenting Altair solutions at the 2nd Additive Manufacturing Symposium. "Additive manufacturing technology is opening up new fields of design, construction and manufacturing of components and functional groups," explains the Additive Manufacturing group within the German Engineering Federation (VdMA), which is hosting the event.
Lukas Pawelczyk from Arburg GmbH & Co. KG will be one of the ten speakers at the symposium. He will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the additive manufacturing process "Arburg Plastic Freeforming". In Hall 7 during Digital Factory Arburg will be showcasing "a completely IT integrated and fully automated manufacturing line for customized office scissors" in which a robot with seven axes plays an integral role. "It's also a challenge to take profitability and availability into account when manufacturing batch sizes of one," states Arburg in its trade show announcement.
By combining injection molding, additive manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies the full-scale production series "office scissors" will be customized "in a flexible, automated, cyber physical production system" at the Arburg stand. When placing an order, trade show visitors will enter their own signature onto a tablet and select one of four types of scissors. The information will be recorded digitally and series production will start automatically on Arburg's "Allrounder 370 E". "Using a data matrix (DM) code each product becomes a data storage medium that can monitor and control its own path through the production line," according to Arburg. In the next step, the Freeformer applies the 3D signature to the plastic. The ARBURG line supervisor system (ALS) plays a major role by recording the parameters and forwarding them to a web server. Product, process and quality information can be accessed from the cloud using mobile devices.
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