· Smart manufacturing and automation within Boeing’s AM processes
· Rapidly adopting innovative new materials and design tools
· Boeing’s vision for the future of AM how it can be realised in the near term
· Developing complex, durable components for landing gears using Additive Manufacturing
· Creating partnerships in order to share expertise and innovate
· Proposed development of key technologies to improve Safran Landing Systems products
· Achieving regularity in production and approval in regulation
· Honeywell’s recent achievements in this and proposed future plans
· Reducing costs and production lead time as a priority
Space and space applications can pose a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Key advantages including reducing part count and points of failure, total mass reduction, and control over mass distribution. However, the extreme forces placed on objects going into space, and the high cost of failure necessitate high qualification and certification standards. This is not only expensive but also poses some unique technical challenges in order to replicate parts to consistent high standards.
Discussion will include:
· The unique opportunities that AM has for space applications
· Importance of process and material control including powder and environment management
· Challenges of scalability with qualification and certification methodologies
· How ICME can help through modelling and simulation
· How design features can complicate material properties making materials hard to qualify
· In-process monitoring, qualification and validation from AI to CT-scanning
· Use of data analysis to ensure that consistency is upheld
· Application of AM on the development of USAF hypersonic technologies
· Multi-laser manufacturing and a roadmap of its use by AFRL
· Investigating the limits of tolerances and topological features to inform design guidelines
· ESA priorities for expanding its Additive Manufacturing capability
· Multi-national cooperation to overcoming component manufacturing challenges
Designing for AM requires a different mind-set. Designers need to know material limitations not just manufacturing limitations. Moreover, there is little point in producing a part with AM that could be machined. What tools can help this process, what training can be given to designers? From software packages to training courses there is a lot that can be done to generally improve the AM design approach.
Discussion will include:
· How to truly enable design for additive manufacturing
· Enabling software that helps designers understand material limitations
· Tools for validating designs; modelling and simulation that account for material and design
· Workforce considerations; training, qualification and certification
· Printing a rocket combustion chamber using ABD-900AM nickel super alloy
· Computational design to help bridge materials science and AM process development gaps
· Cooperation with partners to share expertise and drive performance
· Designing propulsion systems for better performance and durability using AM
· Planned development of AM applications throughout Eaton’s portfolio
· Collaboration with wider industry and other partners in aerospace