This document discusses Advanced Electrical Tools' use of additive manufacturing to produce titanium tools for the aerospace industry. It summarizes the company's history and products, the market requirements for lightweight, high-quality tools, and why the company chose additive manufacturing over traditional machining. Specifically, it discusses how additive manufacturing allows for optimized designs with integrated functions at lower costs than conventional titanium machining. The perspectives section outlines plans to increase production rates and design new products using additive manufacturing.
1. Additive Manufacturing
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Advanced Electrical Tools specifically designed with
Titanium EBM technology
ADVANCED ELECTRICAL TOOLS
Summary
•Company General Information
•Products
•Market requirements
•EADU history
•Additive Manufacturing Choice
•Perspectives
•Conclusion
2. Company General Information
u Company creation date : 2010
u Share capital : 130.000 Euros
u R&D reinvestment policy (Innovation strategy)
with financial support from European Fund
u Geographical location :
• Headquarter in Malaga - Spain
• Second place in Seclin - France
• R&D development place in Aix-en-Provence – France
u Core Business : development and worldwide supply of advanced products and services
in the fields of assembly, drilling, fasteners installation and tools for Aeronautic sector
Headquarter Building (Spain)
3. u Very light Portable Automatic Drilling Unit for drilling, boring, countersinking and machining
• Qualified machine for high quality drilling operations (drilling, boring, countersinking)
• 2 kW for a weight between 2 and 2.5 kg
• 1 kW for a weight between 1 and 1,5 kg
u Very low power supply with possibility of using battery (autonomous machine)
u Real time monitoring of the cutting process
u Different packaging available in baseline with control board included
(no additional external box)
u Micro lubrication by the center tool (micro pump integrated)
u HMI Interface including Wi-Fi
(automatic cycle start by the operator or by network,
program change …)
u Chips vacuum
u Grease-packed bearings
Drilling Products
Computer
used during tests
(cutting parameters
adjustments, process
monitoring …)
4. Change of material
èCutting tool parameters adaptation
u Process control monitoring
Real time cutting tool parameters adaptation
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5. Market requirements
u Productivity
• One Shot Drill
• Chip extraction in deep drilling
u Product Quality
• Real-time process monitoring
• Adaptation to drilled material
u Product Cost / Ownership Cost
• Tool life optimization
• Low consumption
• Efficiency
u Safety / Ergonomics
• Very low supply voltage
• Operation using battery
• Weight of the machine
• Reduced noise
u EBM advantage
• X (integrated in the design)
• X (high rigidity using Titatium)
• X (EBM manufacturing)
• X (optimized design)
6. Product history (1/2)
u Prototype (Aluminum structure)
• Integration of High Performance Brushless
motors
• Development of electronics and software
• Qualification for aeronautical industry
7. Product history( 2/2)
u EBM proof of concept
• Specific design for EBM
• Integration of function (chip collection, lub.,…)
• Ergonomic handle integration
• Manufacturing and price validation with
Mecachrome (F)
8. Additive Manufacturing (1/2)
u Reasons of our choice
• Technical reasons
u Mechanical characteristics of Titanium
u Designed for weight optimization
u Integration of functions
• Marketing reasons
u High technology product
u Specific design for customers
• Economic reasons
u Cheaper solution than traditional machined parts.
9. Additive Manufacturing (2/2)
u Specific Adaptation
• Design
u The parts should be designed according to the Additive
Manufacturing process
u Performance optimization according to EBM process
• Industrialization
u Design should integrate the production efficiency
• Manufacturing
u Maximize the number of parts per batch in the EBM machine
u Specific training for machining
It’s why our project requires
the SIRRIS expertise
10. Perspectives
u Increasing the production rate
u Optimization of the design including
Lattice structures.
u Optimization of the production
parameters to reduce the finishing
operations.
u Development of new products
(fastening, …)
11. Conclusions
u Based on our experience, Titanium Additive
Manufacturing is a very efficient technology.
• High mechanical performance
• Design to very low weight
• Attractive cost.
u But which requires a specific organization to
get the highest benifits.