ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING NEWS IN BRIEF
Briefs
Siemens Sinumerik One CNC
first for AM expert BeAM
Directed energy deposition
(DED) machine specialist BeAM
(Kingsbury, https://is.gd/
exevoc) is the first additive
manufacturing (AM) machine
maker to fit Siemens’ Sinumerik
One CNC unit. The new
controller features software for
the creation of digital twins,
which supports “the seamless
integration of hardware and
software”.
The BeAM machine, a
Modulo 250, was exhibited at
last month’s EMO exhibition in
Hanover. Visitors saw how the
program simulation is operated
on the machine using the Digital
Twin of Production in the NX
Virtual Machine software.
“We are very excited to close the
loop in the additive digital chain
by bridging virtual simulation
and actual deposition on our
new Modulo 250, thanks to the
integration of the new Sinumerik
One. It opens up new
possibilities for our industrial
customers willing to integrate
further DED in their value chain
and optimise its usage,” BeAM’s
CEO, Vincent Gillet, said. The
entire BeAM machine fleet will
be fitted with Sinumerik One,
with further collaboration on
developments in Siemens NX
CADCAM, Teamcenter,
MindSphere and Edge
functionality also anticipated.
Uwe Ruttkamp, head of machine
tool systems at Siemens Digital
Industries (l) with Vincent Gillet,
CEO of BeAM
Weerg places record order for HP 3D-printing tech
The largest European order for HP’s Jet Fusion 5210
series plastic 3D-printing equipment has been placed by
Italy-based e-commerce company Weerg, which provides
both CNC machining and 3D printing in both metals a
plastics (see Machinery feature January 2019, p10:
https://is.gd/
tavuke).
The company has
ordered six machines,
three already having
been delivered to the
company’s Gardigiano
headquarters. In fact,
the order comes just
some three months
after the 5210 was
launched by HP. “This
is, at present day (mid-September), the largest single
order ever placed at EMEA level,” confirms Davide
Ferrulli, country lead 3D printing HP Italia, adding that it
is “a record that we are pleased to share with a unique
company like Weerg, with which we have been actively
collaborating since its entry into additive manufacturing”.
Says Weerg CEO Matteo Rigamonti: “We like to call
ourselves Industry 5.0, because we demand the best
from our production department. That’s why we
constantly invest in the best technologies available”.
The company claims that its fleet of machines is unique
in Italy, taking in two batteries of five Hermle C42U 5-axis
continuous fully automated and a 3D department in
regular expansion. Weerg fields more than 13,000
requests for quotes daily that convert into an average of
400 orders each day.
Continues
Rigamonti: “There is
an exponential growth,
especially in the 3D
field where the users, in
constant evolution, are
more and more
attentive both to the
quality of the product
and to the speed of
delivery times. With this
in mind, the new HP Jet Fusion series, which includes
new software and data management, offers the industrial
performance we need, guaranteeing precision,
repeatability and speed for runs of up to thousands of
units.”
The new HP Jet Fusion 5210 series delivers increased
productivity, greater flexibility, streamlined workflows and
enhanced, automated processes that will enable Weerg
to increase its production capacity by 50%, while
improving print quality (PA 12 Nylon).
Fully functional scale model gas turbine produced
A 1:25-scale gas turbine that
demonstrates the potential and
limitations of powder bed-based
additive manufacturing (AM)
technologies has been created in a
collaboration between the H+EProduktentwicklung
GmbH in
Moritzburg, Saxony, the Fraunhofer
Institute for Manufacturing
Technology and Advanced Materials
IFAM in Dresden.
The technology demonstrator is a
model of a Siemens SGT6-8000 H
gas turbine for power generation and
was completely manufactured with
additive processes, except for the
shaft. The assembly comprises 68
parts made of aluminium, steel and
titanium, which through component
optimisation and the possibilities of
electron and laser beam melting
technologies replace the almost
3,000 individual parts that make up
the original component. Some parts
were also machined subsequent to
AM creation. The turbine is fully
functional.
Fraunhofer IFAM was involved in
the manufacturing of the component
as well as the data modification for
the technology-adapted production.
The housing components with stator
stages were manufactured on site at
the Innovation Center Additive
Manufacturing ICAM in Dresden. They
were produced using electron beam
melting (EBM) of Ti-6Al-4V in an
Arcam Q20+ plant. The turbine
stages and the other housing
components were manufactured at
H+E using laser beam melting (LBM).
Not all processed materials
correspond to the target materials for
turbines, as some materials cannot
yet be processed in a commercially
sensible way, the partners say.
Production planning to determine
the right technology for each
component was complex. The
accuracy and roughness of the
surfaces, for example, had to be
taken into account. Also, the
necessity and number of support
structures, as well as component
size, had to be considered. The
functionality of the demonstrator was
a prerequisite. For example, the shaft
and turbine stages had to be able to
rotate freely between the stator
stages and the individual
components of the demonstrator had
to be connected to each other with
minimum effort – by screwing and
plugging on.
Parts were modified to support
‘right first time’ AM production, which
was achieved. For example, the 316L
housing segment was made by LBM,
without support structures.
16 October 2019 www.machinery.co.uk @MachineryTweets
/
/
/www.machinery.co.uk