PROMETHEUS: Enabling a Data Rich Additive Manufacturing Process

PROMETHEUS：实现数据丰富的增材​​制造流程

• 批准号: 10092251
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: WAYLAND ADDITIVE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10092251
• 关键词: PROMETHEUS; Enabling; Data; Rich; Additive

AM offers unrivalled flexibility in terms of part geometry, material composition and production volumes. It will revolutionise the high value manufacturing sector such as the aerospace, energy, and medical implant industry, enabling complex, lightweight, high-performance parts to be produced with more functional materials, with less material waste and more economically. Wayland's NeuBeam Technology offers industry a new and more capable AM process. Added capability, however, is often associated with added complexity.In project "Enabling a Data Rich Additive Manufacturing Process" (Project PROMETHEUS) a comprehensive programme of experimental, theoretical and development work will be conducted to unite the essential technologies of the NeuBeam AM process into a data rich process informing customers of build quality and build assurance. Through previous I-UK grants: RAMP-UP; MIRIAM; INSPIRE, THEDUS and I-AM, NeuBeam has become a process tailored for industry's need for machines with serial production capability. Large part production is now an achievable objective, in-process monitoring coupled with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) is capable of maintaining tuned machine performance for optimum melt conditions across all geometries. Fundamental to the process is Wayland's patented NeuBeam technology but this can mask some of the data signals that would benefit the process. The objective of PROMETHEUS is to investigate, using the plasma technologies developed under THEDUS, the electron / plasma / ion interaction during the melt phase and the Back Scattered Electron Detection (BSD) signal that results, thereby incorporating BSD imaging into the machine. NeuBeam is the only AM technology that has the ability to incorporate thermal, visual and BSD imaging, with productivity and scalability.PROMETHEUS aims to ensure that technical complexity is not restrictive to the user but provides a capability that informs the user of part quality.

增材制造在零件几何形状、材料组成和产量方面提供了无与伦比的灵活性。它将彻底改变高价值制造业，如航空航天、能源和医疗植入物行业，使复杂、轻量化、高性能的部件能够用更多功能的材料生产，材料浪费更少，更经济。Wayland的NeuBeam技术为行业提供了一种新的、更强大的增材制造工艺。然而，增加的功能通常与增加的复杂性相关联。在“实现数据丰富的增材制造工艺”（PROMETHEUS项目）项目中，将进行一项实验、理论和开发工作的综合计划，将NeuBeam AM工艺的基本技术整合到一个数据丰富的工艺中，向客户提供构建质量和构建保证。通过以前的I-UK补助金：RAMP-UP；米利暗;INSPIRE， THEDUS和I-AM， NeuBeam已成为针对具有批量生产能力的机器的行业需求量身定制的工艺。大型零件生产现在是一个可以实现的目标，过程监控与人工智能/机器学习（AI/ML）相结合，能够在所有几何形状中保持优化的机器性能，以实现最佳的熔化条件。该过程的基础是Wayland的专利技术NeuBeam，但这可能会掩盖一些有利于该过程的数据信号。PROMETHEUS的目的是利用THEDUS开发的等离子体技术，研究熔化阶段电子/等离子体/离子的相互作用以及产生的后散射电子探测（BSD）信号，从而将BSD成像纳入机器中。NeuBeam是唯一能够结合热成像、视觉成像和BSD成像的增材制造技术，具有生产力和可扩展性。PROMETHEUS旨在确保技术复杂性不会限制用户，而是提供一种告知用户部件质量的能力。