Additive Manufacturing
The construction in layers makes it possible to achieve considerable advantages over traditional manufacturing processes. The technology provides many possibilities:
- Realization of complex structures by a maximum diversity of gemetric designs
- Lightweight construction by reducing the weight with the help of grid structures and bionic designs
- Economical manufacturing of complex components available from quantity of 1 (toolless production)
- Resource optimization with low material and energy consumption
- Increasing the speed with reduction of production steps
Additive manufacturing processes are used when the potential of the technology can be exploit, for example.
- Functional integration in apparatus tool and mechanical engineering
- Weight reduction in aerospace, automotive and engineering
- Individualized products or wide variety in the investment consumer area, as well as in the luxury goods sector