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

该项目解决了工业界所面临的重大挑战，即以可控和经济有效的方式对复杂零件的表面进行精加工。这也成为航空航天行业内外增材部件更广泛采用的重大障碍。为了解决这一问题，该项目将创建一个全自动化的单元，其中包括一些精加工（激光抛光和自适应衬里）和后处理技术（喷丸）。该单元将被封闭，并将使用自适应刀具路径软件以及检测技术（粗糙度和尺寸），以允许自动完成多个零件的几何形状。还将创建整理策略和方法的数据库，并不断更新以提高质量。这不仅将提高现有能力，而且将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