AddUp’s Tooling Competence Centre has launched a mission targeted on growing and implementing additive manufacturing for injection moulding functions.
The 2024 Additive Manufacturing for Injection Molding (#2024AMIM) mission will run for a 12 months, embrace 17 industrial firms, and concentrate on seven areas of significance for tooling producers.
Via the #2024AMIM mission, AddUp and one among its companions will current challenges and improvements for one among these focus areas every month. AddUp will then create samples, benchmarking components and manufacturing moulds in a bid to develop options for these areas. Vigorous testing and information assortment might be ready and revealed on the finish of the mission, with the goal of teaching the tooling trade concerning the capabilities of additive manufacturing.
Tooling producers have been inspired to take part within the mission by bringing their very own difficult tooling functions for analysis and optimisation, however an current utility just isn’t required. Every member is anticipated to actively take part within the month-to-month conferences, collaborating and offering suggestions with different contributors.
Up to now, these contributors embrace:
- Swiss Metal Group (SSG)
- Siemens AG
- Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Know-how (ILT)
- AZO
- Hotset
- The Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV)
- 3D Laser BW
- Herding GmbH
- Air Liquide
- IwF
- Härtha Group
- AZL Aachen GmbH
- Ingenieurbuero Juri Muller (IBJM)
- IPG Laser GmbH
- Aachen Heart for Additive Manufacturing (ACAM)
- WBA Tooling Academy
- Novanta Europe GmbH
These organisations will come collectively to resolve challenges round:
- Device metal growth
- Productiveness
- High quality
- Time financial savings
- Features
- Sustainability
- Work security and powder dealing with
The #2024AMIM mission will kick off within the first week of February, with a gathering hosted by Siemens AG at its Erlangen, Germany facility. It represents AddUp’s second analysis and growth effort referring to tooling after it introduced in 2023 that it’s taking part in a examine which is exploring the adoption of 3D printing for six tooling firms.
