Open Architecture Additive Manufacturing (OAAM)

TWI在开放式体系结构添加剂制造(OAAM)项目中处于领先地位，以展示通过添加剂制造(AM)制造大型金属部件的能力，从而造福于英国航空航天。OAAM计划开发定向能量沉积(DED)AM技术，该技术可以扩大到接受多米组件尺寸。TWI将与项目合作伙伴空中客车、欧特克、克兰菲尔德大学、Glenalmond Group、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DED AM过程平台。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.弧线/激光线AM@Cranfield University电子束线AM@TWI(剑桥)。激光粉末/激光导线AM@TWI(约克郡技术中心)。每个系统都将提供独特的AM功能，并满足许多常见需求：·具有通用CAD/CAM控制接口的可扩展架构解决方案。·集成工艺步骤(无损检测、加工、检验、冷加工等)。·能够使用AM to TRL 6或MCRL 4/5制造航空部件。这些新的AM系统将成为其各自AM工艺变体的真正最先进的研究设施，并将利用托管研究组织中的关键专业知识提供给英国行业。他们将建立一个完全可量化的过程，将英国供应商置于技术和AM研究的前沿。这将为英国航空航天部门提供一条简化的、风险更低的路线，以支持AM的工业化并快速部署到飞机平台上，从而获得下一代制造的机会。大量成果溢出到其他部门(能源、海洋等)该项目由创新英国(参考编号：113164)支持，于2018年1月1日开始实施，为期三年。

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.