A key enabling technology

for Europe’s Industry

What is Additive Manufacturing Research and Innovation group?

Additive Manufacturing Research and Innovation Group, EU projects motivated by a mutual interest in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies, specifically Powder Bed Fusion (PBF), to the specific needs of the industry domain and driven to promote the benefits of European Strategic Actions for AM, under the patronage of the Common Dissemination Booster.

In particular, their common goals are:

Stimulate synergies, maximise mutual benefits and map the collaboration path after the project ends
Evaluate the impact of the exploitable results from the involved projects
Communicate future partnerships and strategies
Create a common stakeholders eco-system for AM technologies
Provide a suitable background for standardisation and certification needs and good practices in the AM sector

The portfolio of results to be disseminated are:

The potential improvement of AM in real manufacturing conditions in terms of productivity, quality and reliability, also using a LCA approach
The competitiveness at all steps of the AM supply chain to bring it to a significant step further towards larger industrial scale
The achieved results of AM produced parts on relevant end-user test cases.

Implement and validate the hybrid manufacturing cells concept.Hybrid manufacturing cells

Goal	Result	Stakeholder
Assess the suitability of different AM processes and materials for repair of aerospace components	Experimental protocol for the deposition of titanium powders on the ECN machine	Electronics companies, designers and decision makers in consumer and industrial product markets
Increase resource efficiency of aviation through implementation of ALM technology and bionic design in all stages of an aircraft life cycle.	Efficient process chain for the production of AM-parts. Starting with component design through production to quality assurance and repair.	Aerospace, possibly automotive. AM equipment providers; software companies; ALM machine manufacturers; companies manufacturing parts by ALM technology (SME’s, OEM’s); metal powder manufacturers.
Create a fully digital integrated design decision support for a L-PBF.	Laser powder bed fusion processes.	Aerospace, medical and automotive.
Improve the performances of laser PBF of titanium, aluminium and steel components in terms of speed, costs, material use and reliability.	Powder Bed Fusion (PBF)	Academic and research community, Industrial sector, Professional Associations especially in the in the domain of automotive, prosthetics and moulding sectors, Technology platforms/associations in the automotive sector (like CLEPA, ACEA or ERTRAC)
Demonstrate the superior cost and speed performance of LIFT as a process for AM (3D printing) in two different applications in flexible electronics.	Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT)	Electronics companies, designers and decision makers in consumer and industrial product markets.
Implement and validate the hybrid manufacturing cells concept.	Hybrid manufacturing cells	Aerospace & Turbomachinery OEMs, AM machine integrators and AM service bureaus, European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) Photonics PPP, The Welding Institute Regional Technology Clusters (particularly in Spain and France)
Create a fully digital integrated design decision support for a L-PBF.	Laser powder bed fusion processes.	Aerospace, medical and automotive.
Sustainable introduction of -TiAl into aerospace applications	y-TiAl components.	Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney, GE, IAE, Renault, Ferrari, Mercedes, Honda (F1 and motorsport teams).
Boost and spread the use of Laser Metal Deposition technology.	Hybrid Machine Tool integrating LMD+Machining	Aerospace, possibly automotive AM equipment providers; software companies; ALM machine manufacturers; companies manufacturing parts by ALM technology (SME’s, OEM’s); metal powder manufacturers.