High Precision Additive Manufacturing of Metals

过去 25 年里，增材层制造 (ALM) 或金属 3D 打印的技术发展稳步增长，应用范围也不断扩大。 ALM 技术为用户提供了以任何金属快速生产复杂零件的机会，并且与机械加工等传统路线相比，成本更低。然而，与传统生产路线相比，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 行业的增长率受到了这些限制的影响。随着航空航天、汽车、生物医学和通用制造等一系列领域对 ALM 的兴趣日益浓厚，迫切需要解决 ALM 当前的局限性。该工业研究项目旨在通过提供新一代 ALM 系统技术来提高 ALM 实施水平，该技术可以提供与高分辨率加工操作相匹配的零件构建流程。从而扩展金属基 ALM 系统在所有工业领域的功能和应用范围。

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.