Flexible and automated finishing and post-processing cell for high value AM components - FlexiFinish

FlexiFinish项目解决了行业所面临的重大挑战，即如何以可控和经济有效的方式完成复杂零件的表面。这也成为航空航天业及其他行业更广泛采用增材部件的一个重大障碍。为了解决这个问题，flexifinish项目将创建一个完全自动化的单元，其中包括许多精加工（激光抛光和自适应精加工）和后处理技术（喷丸强化）。该单元将被封闭，并将使用自适应刀具路径软件以及检查技术（粗糙度和尺寸），以允许多个零件几何形状的自动精加工。还将创建整理策略和方法数据库，并不断更新以提高质量。这不仅可以提高当前的能力，还可以减少现有方法的成本和时间

The FlexiFinish project addresses the significant challenges faced by industry surrounding the ability to finishsurfaces on complex parts, in a controlled and cost effective manner. This is also becoming a significant barrierto the wider uptake of additive parts within the Aerospace industry and beyond. In order to address this, theFlexiFinish project will create a fully automated cell which includes a number of finishing (laser polishing andadaptive linishing) and post processing technologies (shot peening). The cell will be enclosed, and will useadaptive toolpath software alongside inspection technologies (roughness and dimensional) to allow automatedfinishing of multiple parts' geometris. A database of finishing strategies and approaches will also be created,and constantly updated to improve quality. This will not only improve current capability, but will reduce costsand timescales from existing approaches