High Precision Additive Manufacturing of Metals

在过去的25年里，金属的加层制造(ALM)或3D打印在技术发展和越来越多的应用方面取得了稳步增长。ALM技术为用户提供了快速生产任何金属的复杂部件的机会，而且与机械加工等传统工艺相比，成本更低。然而，与传统的生产路线相比，当前的商业ALM系统技术确实存在生产率低、分辨率低和质量限制的问题。ALM部门的增长率受到这些限制的影响。随着航空航天、汽车、生物医学和一般制造等领域对ALM的兴趣与日俱增，迫切需要解决目前ALM的局限性。该工业研究项目致力于通过提供新一代ALM系统技术来提高ALM实施的水平，该系统技术可以提供与高分辨率加工操作相匹配的零件制造过程。从而扩大了基于金属的ALM系统在所有工业部门的能力和应用范围。

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) or 3D printing of metals has seen steady growth in technology development and a growing list of applications over the past 25 years. ALM technologies offer users the opportunity to produce complex parts quickly, in any metal, and at lower costs compared to traditional routes such as machining. The current commercial ALM system technology does however suffer from low production rates, lower resolutions, and quality limitations when compared to conventional production routes. The growth rate of the ALM sector has been affected by these limitations. With the growing interest in ALM from a range of sectors such as aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and general fabrication, there is a pressing need to solve the current limitations of ALM. This industrial research project sets out to advance the levels of ALM implementation by delivering new generation of ALM system technology that can deliver a part building process to match that of high resolution machining operations. Thereby expanding the capabilities and application scope of metal-based ALM systems across all industrial sectors.