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NMIS’ additive manufacturing sustainability move
The LMD hybrid platform installed at NMIS will help support the
investigation of additive manufacturing’s sustainability credentials
sustainability bene ts of the many
processes. Working as part of
AMGTA, we will be able to tap into
information from a cross section of
industry and that will better allow
us as an organisation, and
collectively as a global industry,
to understand more about the part
AM has to play in the net zero
agenda.”
3D-printing
investigation
The National Manufacturing Institute
Scotland (NMIS) has become the
rst UK member of a new global
trade group that has been
established to advance
sustainability in additive
manufacturing (AM).
The organisation is one of 12
leading bodies to join the Additive
Manufacturer Green Trade
Association (AMGTA), which has
been created to promote the
environmental bene ts of AM.
AMGTA will serve as a key
industry resource to educate the
public and industry about additive
manufacturing’s positive
environmental bene ts, to help
develop industry best practices and
to promote the adoption of the
technology as an alternative to
traditional manufacturing.
Stephen Fitzpatrick, additive
manufacturing and machining and
team lead at NMIS, says: “Additive
is a key focus for us going forward
at NMIS and we want to be at the
forefront when it comes to
sustainability for the manufacturing
industry. One of the ways that we
are doing this is by using additive
manufacturing as an enabler for
new remanufacturing processes.
“We are developing a number
of new AM techniques, but we
don’t yet know enough about the
Engineers at the University of
Shef eld Advanced
Manufacturing Research Centre
(AMRC) have saved a knife
manufacturer valuable time and
wasted energy by simulating the
manufacturing process and
estimating the production costs
of introducing additive
manufacturing (AM) in its
production process.
“We were given a de nitive
answer,” explains David Harris,
general manager of Gloucesterbased
The Safety Knife
Company. “The answer may have
been that unit price was going to
be prohibitive and that we
needed to look in a different
direction, but it stopped us
wasting our own time and money
testing it out ourselves.”
MTC set to install XJet’s novel
ceramic 3D-printing technology
The Manufacturing Technology
Centre (MTC) is to install an XJet
NanoParticle Jetting additive
manufacturing (AM) unit to its
portfolio of AM technologies at its
facility in Coventry. Having been
shipped and currently en route, the
ceramic material 3D-printing Carmel
1400C system is scheduled to go
live in the coming few months.
The MTC hosts the National
Centre for Additive Manufacturing
(NCAM), which accelerates the
adoption of AM by developing the
technology and systems required to
industrialise this process. Ceramic
AM is a key focus area for the
NCAM, with the recently published
whitepaper highlighting a route to
widespread adoption for the UK.
According to Dr Tom Wasley, MTC
senior research engineer, XJet
successfully demonstrated the
ability of the Carmel 1400C in
producing premium end-use ceramic
parts and scaling up for production,
thus making the machine an ideal
addition to its existing AM capability.
MTC’s Carmel 1400C system will
enable the manufacture of highly
complex ceramic parts. Components
will feature super ne details, smooth
surfaces and pinpoint accuracy –
making the promise of zero-cost
complexity a reality.
Wasley adds: “There is a high
demand for parts like this in the
aerospace, medical, dental and
defence industries, some businesses
are interested in high precision
tooling, but largely they’re looking
for end-use parts. We’ve been
working in ceramics for over six
years, and now we’re looking forward
to growing our in-house AM
capability.”
4 November 2020, issue 1 - Machinery Classifi ed
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