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ADDMANU – An Austrian Lighthouse Project for Additive Manfacturing

Authors:
Christian Woegerer
Michael Muehlbereger
Markus IKeda

Keywords: Additive manufacturing, 3D Printing, Lithography Based Manufacturing (LBF), Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Laser Beam Melting (LBM), InkJet printing

Abstract:
To reach a significant progress beyond the state of the art in additive manufacturing an extensive discussion of various technologies, which can be achieved only by a large consortium with various technology know-how, is necessary. This is the idea of the lead project AddManu. The process of InkJet printing on 3D curved surfaces has different challenges which must be solved in the project (Materials, process, Quality control). The issue of appropriate materials as well as a precise knowledge of the process must be integrated in a suitable system. Each component of the system must work exactly with all others and must be optimized in hard- and software. The idea of robot-based InkJet printing is the key problem and is described in this paper together with the material, soft and hardware requirements. Purpose of the article is also the presentation of the first results after the concept phase. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section II presents an overview of the consortium, the project goals and the motivation as well as the key facts of the project. Section III shows a general overview of the technical work, followed by a more detailed description of PROFACTOR´s work inside the consortium. This is focused on the development of basics for a multimaterial hybrid manufacturing technology based on InkJet printing. In addition, the concept of robot- based ink jet printing and material development. Section IV provides an overview of the first results. Section V concludes the paper.

Pages: 35 to 40

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: July 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-426X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-496-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 24, 2016 to July 28, 2016