SIMULATION & ANALYSIS | OPTIMISATION
At the same time, work ows
to simulate and optimise designs,
production, and supply chains have
been locked down by software
vendors (with prede ned ‘one size
ts all’ settings), which rarely meet
the actual requirements of the
business.
This is solved by Additive Flow,
which enables users to create
repeatable Optimisation work ows
can be easily edited, retained,
and shared amongst teams - for
maximum productivity, automation,
and enhancing your digital thread -
and specify the exact requirements
you are looking for on local regions of
engineering parts, while optimising
for speci c business needs like cost
and sustainability.
An example of the impact
Additive Flow’s software has had
on businesses beyond Additive
Manufacturing is Comeragh
Composites. Findhan Strain, the
company’s Director said: “The
analysis carried out with Additive
Flow’s software helped reduce
manufacturing costs by 50% and
saved weight by 60%, by simplifying
the injection moulding process
and enhancing our ROI with multi-
property composites. Of even greater
interest was that the process opened
my eyes to what is feasible - on larger
and more complex components with
potentially even more signi cant
advantages using Additive Flow’s
software. You can simplify your
supply chain by adopting a new
approach to material use and
selection.”
NEW FRONTIERS
Additive Flow’s proprietary
algorithms optimise multi-functional
parts (i.e. thermal, frequency,
structural) by integrating
multiple physics within
a coupled optimisation
loop. This allows the
allocation of material
properties that
address the
speci c local
needs of a
part.
to solve every day challenges.
Additive Flow enabled us
to consider multi-material
scenarios and quickly iterate
designs and proposals
for our customers. We
were able to show how
our customers’ cost and
sustainability objectives
could be met with
optimised part design and
manufacture.”
Projects are also underway
manufacturing costs by 50%
and saved weight by 60%, by
simplifying the injection
moulding process and
enhancing our ROI with
with 3DGBIRE and other
The analysis
carried out with
Additive Flow’s software
international supply chain partners
that span automotive, aerospace and
industrial processing components.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Charles Fried, CTO at Additive
Flow explains the importance of our
in-house development “We have
built our solvers from the ground up
to be both highly computationally
ef cient and achieve the demanding
goals of our customers. This means
compelling performance and robust
accuracy against benchmark results”
Naveed R. Parvez, CEO of
Andiamo explains the impact this
has had on their team, “Healthcare
globally is in need of radical solutions
to meet mounting pressures. We
need everyone to focus on the
outcome and not the process. This is
a philosophy we share with Additive
Flow and proved to be instrumental
during a large multi-year NHS
project. Clinicians told us that they
were often trying to avoid a condition
getting worse. With Additive Flow we
could now optimise for improvement
whilst still meeting all the clinical
and engineering requirements. With
Additive Flow we saw processing
speed improvements of up to 5x
which allowed us to increase our
productivity by at least 30% per
engineer – ultimately allowing us to
treat more people more quickly. “
Alexander Pluke concludes: “‘We
recognize the impact our software
can have on businesses’ KPIs such as
cost saving and time to market, but
what really drives Additive Flow as
an organisation is empowering our
users to achieve what they want.
As one of our early users told us
‘Using your software is like being
a kid in a candy shop, where I can
explore all the new things that I have
previously not been able to do’.” !
Additive Flow’s multi-property
optimisations enable tailored
material properties
to meet competing
functions within a part,
based on allocating
multiple lattices, build
parameters, or materials
– in conjunction with
topology - depending
on the technology and
material requirements. This
enables new possibilities
for optimisation that have
delivered cost savings of 50%+, and
accelerated development iterations
from months to days.
Gregor Graf, Head of Engineering
at Rosswag states: “With our holistic
process chain, we are extensively
working on the quali cation of new
metal alloys for LPBF processes.
With the multi-physics simulation
models and repeatable optimisation
work ows from Additive Flow, the
full potential of AM processes could
be released by functionally graded
materials and components.”
These capabilities have been
applied across many industries,
with Additive Flow having recently
delivered a cornerstone project
with Saint-Gobain for thermal
optimisation, in high performance
ceramic applications for hybrid
additive manufacturing.
Neha Burke, General Manager
Surface Conditioning, Saint-Gobain
Ceramics, says: “In Saint-Gobain, our
focus is on making the world a better
home. For many of our businesses,
we look to specialty materials
helped reduce
multi- property
composites
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