PROMETHEUS: Enabling a Data Rich Additive Manufacturing Process

AM在零件几何形状、材料组成和生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、高性能的部件能够用更多的功能材料生产，减少材料浪费，更经济。Wayland的NeuBeam技术为行业提供了一种新的、更强大的AM工艺。在“实现数据丰富的增材制造工艺”项目（PROMETHEUS项目）中，将开展一项全面的实验、理论和开发工作，将NeuBeam增材制造工艺的基本技术整合到一个数据丰富的工艺中，为客户提供构建质量和构建保证。通过以前的I-UK赠款：加速;米里亚姆;通过INSPIRE、THEDUS和I-AM，NeuBeam已成为一种为满足行业对具有批量生产能力的机器需求而量身定制的工艺。大零件生产现在是一个可实现的目标，过程中监控与人工智能/机器学习（AI/ML）相结合，能够保持调整的机器性能，以实现所有几何形状的最佳熔体条件。该过程的基础是Wayland的NeuBeam专利技术，但这可能会屏蔽一些有利于该过程的数据信号。PROMETHEUS的目标是使用THEDUS开发的等离子体技术，研究熔化阶段的电子/等离子体/离子相互作用以及由此产生的背散射电子检测（BSD）信号，从而将BSD成像纳入机器。NeuBeam是唯一一种能够将热成像、视觉成像和BSD成像结合在一起的AM技术，具有生产力和可扩展性。PROMETHEUS旨在确保技术复杂性不会对用户造成限制，而是提供一种告知用户零件质量的功能。

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.