4. ALM Systems : Mechanisms
Courtesy : Lazer Zentrum Nord
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5. ALM & Airbus
The aerospace business is driven by
- weight
- cost
- environnemental impact
ALM is revolutionary becasue
potentially it impacts all aspects of
the business.F i r s t i n t r o d u c t i o n o f
m e t a l l i c b r a c k e t s a t
A 3 5 0 X W B , M S N 0 0 5
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7. Airbus: Spares on demand
Qantas Seat Cover
First part in 1 day including design
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8. Airbus : Flying scaled prototypes
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9. ALM : IP Landscape
Exponential IP filing
growth in US,
Europe, China and
Japan
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10. R&D
Spare PartsPrototyping Tooling Flying Parts
On Demand
Production
Methods & Tools Skills &
Competences
Domains of 3D Printing Exploration
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12. But ….
How to design something like this:
…starting with something like this ?
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13. Raw Materials / supply chain
Currently Ti suppliers are
limited
Ti + alloy powder
manufacturing to required
grade cheaply is a challenge
ALM has the potential to
make the supply chain more
agile
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14. Challenges for industrialization
• Process speed (cubic scaling)
• Process variation (part, batch, machine)
• In-process inspection (distortion, stresses)
• Design tools
• IP
• Anti-counterfeiting
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15. ALM : Notable World-wide efforts
3D printed aero engine ARC
of Australia
A large 3D printed titanium
part for J-20 or J-31 stealth
fighter
http://www.3ders.org/
5 meter long central wing spar
for Comac C919 passenger-plane
done at NPU
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16. What Next : printable electronics in ALM parts
Helmet insert for detecting traumatic
head injury
Combining Additive Manufacturing and Direct Write for Integrated Electronics – A Review
K. Blake Perez and Christopher B. Williams
helmet fabricated using stereolithography,
IC components, and manually deposited
traces of silver ink
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17. What Next : 4D Printing - Self assembly
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18. What next: Perhaps a 3D printed plane ..??
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