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Marie-Louise Bergholt
Director Application Center for Additive Manufacturing
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Success stories from the MANUELA project
The MANUELA project has developed a world-class Pilot Line Production Service for additive manufacturing in metals. The services are all stemming from top-quality research and validation across industrial applications. Here you find 8 success stories – from space to medical.
Through the MANUELA project a pan-European manufacturing capacity has been created with a focus on metal additive manufacturing, specifically the powder bed fusion processes PBF-LB and PBF-EB. During the project different steps along the supply chain has been optimized and tuned, ranging from design and design optimization, material and process development, as well as post-operations using automated solutions to ensure best in class EHS work environment.
8 key realizations – from space to medical
Below are a few success stories to demonstrate the capacity of developed pilot line to ensure manufacturing of highly complex parts with the right properties.
Automotive part – brake component
Customer and market: OEB srl Italy
Main goal: Flexible design and production time reduction
Material: Ti6246
Key challenges:
- Design adaptation for AM
- Minimize as much as possible the printing supports to reduce post-processing time
Automotive part – rocker component
Customer and market: OEB srl Italy
Main goal: Flexible design and production speed increase
Material: Ti6246
Key challenges:
- Design adaptation for AM
- Minimize as much as possible the printing supports to reduce post-processing time
Space part – slip ring rotor
Customer and market: Beyond Gravity (CH)
Main goal:
- Reduction of the number of parts
- Integration of electrical functionalities
Material: Cu 997
Key challenges:
- Integration of electrical functionalities
- Printing of small features
- Post-processing
Space part – slip ring stator
Customer and market: Beyond Gravity (CH)
Main goal: Reduction of mass (20%)
Material: A20X, Al2139
Key challenges:
- Topology optimization while satisfying mechanical requirements for space environment
- Post-processing
Medical part – cranial implant
Customer and market: CEIT (SK)
Main goal:
- Reduce manufacturing time via supports optimization
- Deformation minimization
Material: Ti6Al4V ELI
Key challenges:
- Printing orientation and supports definition
- Part deformation
Avionics part – helmet optic support
Customer and market: Qioptic (UK)
Main goal:
- Mass reduction
- Cost and manufacturing time reduction
Material: A20X
Key challenges:
- Printing orientation
- Deformation
- Post-processing
Energy part – fuel nozzle
Customer and market: Siemens (SW)
Main goal: Reproduce the part in AM
Material: Hastelloy X
Key challenges: Small internal features
Energy part – combustor
Customer and market: ENEL (IT)
Main goal: Reproduce the part in AM
Material: Hastelloy X
Key challenges:
- Print in multiple parts with final reassembly
- Deformation
- Post-processing
Energy part – injector
Customer and market: ENEL (IT)
Main goal: Reproduce the part in AM
Material: Hastelloy X
Key challenges:
- Print in multiple parts with final reassembly
- Post-processing
More information
In MANUELA's booklet you will find more information about some of the use cases.
Horizon 2020-funded
MANUELA project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement N°820774. Read more
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