Open Architecture Additive Manufacturing (OAAM)

TWI在开放式增材制造（OAAM）项目中处于领先地位，该项目旨在展示通过增材制造（AM）制造大型金属部件的能力，以造福英国航空航天。OAAM计划计划开发定向能量沉积（DED）AM技术，这些技术可以扩大规模以接受数米尺寸的组件。TWI将与项目合作伙伴空中客车公司、欧特克公司、克兰菲尔德大学、格伦阿蒙德集团、巴斯大学、曼彻斯特大学和斯特拉斯克莱德大学合作，创建三个DEAM工艺平台。这些新平台将使航空航天制造商及其供应链能够在以下领域开发先进的AM制造概念：1.电弧线/激光线AM @克兰菲尔德大学。2.电子束线AM @ TWI（剑桥）。TWI（约克郡技术中心）的激光粉末/激光线AM。这些系统中的每一个都将提供独特的AM功能，并满足许多共同的需求：·可扩展的架构解决方案，具有通用的CAD/CAM控制接口。·集成的工艺步骤（NDT、机加工、检测、冷加工等）为满足航空航天要求的最佳实施所必需。·这些新的增材制造系统将成为其各自增材制造工艺变体的真正最先进的研究设施，并将提供给英国工业，利用托管研究组织内的关键专业知识。他们将建立一个完全可量化的过程，使英国供应商处于技术和AM研究的最前沿。这将为英国航空航天部门提供进入下一代制造业的简化，低风险路线，以支持AM的工业化并快速部署到飞机平台。大量的结果溢出到其他部门（能源，海洋等）。该项目由Innovate UK（编号：113164）支持，于2018年1月1日开始，将持续三年。

TWI is taking the lead in the Open Architecture Additive Manufacturing (OAAM) project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture large metallic components via Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the benefit of UK Aerospace. The OAAM programme plans to develop directed energy deposition (DED) AM technologies that can be scaled up to accept multi-metre component sizes. TWI will work with project partners Airbus, Autodesk, Cranfield University, Glenalmond Group, University of Bath, University of Manchester and University of Strathclyde to create three DED AM process platforms. These new platforms will enable aerospace manufacturers and their supply chains to develop advanced AM manufacturing concepts in the following fields:1. Arc-wire / Laser-wire AM @ Cranfield University.2. Electron Beam wire AM @ TWI (Cambridge).3. Laser-powder / Laser-wire AM @ TWI (Yorkshire Technology Centre).Each of these systems will offer unique AM capabilities and address a number of common needs:• Scalable architecture solutions, with common CAD/CAM control interfacing.• Integrated process steps (NDT, Machining, Inspection, Cold-work etc.) as necessary for optimum implementation to aerospace requirements.• Ability to manufacture aerospace components using AM to TRL 6 or MCRL 4/5.These new AM systems will be truly state-of-the-art research facilities for their respective AM process variants, and will be made available to UK industry, leveraging key expertise resident within the hosting research organisations. They will establish a fully quantifiable process that will place UK suppliers at the forefront of the technology and AM research. This will offer the UK aerospace sector access to next-generation manufacturing with a simplified, lower risk route to support AM’s industrialisation and rapidly deploy into aircraft platforms. A substantial amount of results overspill onto other sectors (energy, marine, etc.) is also foreseen.The project, which is supported by Innovate UK (ref: 113164), commenced on the 1 January 2018 and will run for three years.