2022 Large Additive Manufacturing Machine activities

一项新的学术-工业合作伙伴关系正在开发两种电弧增材制造（WAAM）变体，以大幅提高沉积速率和打印效率。该项目被称为LAMM，汇集了四个专业组织，并从EIT制造业获得了42.8万欧元的资金。EITM成立于2019年，其愿景是全球制造业将继续由欧洲领导，并努力使欧洲及其制造业更具竞争力和可持续性。LAMM的愿景是使市场上最高沉积速率的WAAM套件成熟，使目前所有WAAM工艺的沉积速率增加一倍以上，显著降低运行成本，增加该技术的潜在市场。该项目将完成两种末端执行器的工业化，为Ti64和钢的沉积量身定制，以及一套软件工具来优化工艺参数和路径规划。此外，现有的生命周期评估工具将被修改以适应新的沉积方法。这项合作建立在由英国WAAM3D公司领导的工业化努力的基础上，该公司是克兰菲尔德大学的一家衍生公司。WAAM3D由比利时的Guaranteed BV公司、葡萄牙的FAN3D公司和希腊帕特雷大学的制造系统与自动化实验室（LMS）共同参与，该实验室也是该项目的协调人。

A new academic-industrial partnership is developing two Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) variants to achieve substantial improvements in deposition rates and printing efficiency.?The project, known as LAMM, brings together four specialist organisations and has received €428,000 of funding from EIT Manufacturing. EITM was established in 2019 with the vision that global manufacturing will continue to be led by Europe, and it strives towards making Europe and its manufacturing sector more competitive and sustainable.?LAMM envisions to mature the highest deposition rate WAAM kit on the market, more than doubling what is currently possible across all WAAM processes, significantly decreasing running costs and increasing the potential market for the technology. The project will complete the industrialisation of two kinds of End-Effectors, tailored for the deposition of Ti64 and steel, as well as a set of software tools to optimise process parameters and path planning. Additionally, existing life cycle assessment tools will be modified to accommodate the novel deposition approaches.?The collaboration builds on the industrialisations efforts led by WAAM3D (UK), a Cranfield University spin-out company. WAAM3D is joined by Guaranteed BV (Belgium), FAN3D (Portugal), and the Laboratory For Manufacturing Systems & Automation (LMS) of the University of Patras (Greece), which is also the project’s coordinator.