Navigating Industry 4.0 in Materials, Minerals & Mining - Additive Assembly

Explore the future of Materials, Minerals & Mining in the era of Industry 4.0, where we focus on additive assembly

You will hear from:

Samanta Piano, University of Nottingham

Enhancing in-process monitoring of additive manufacturing through virtual fringe-projection simulations

• Reliable and repeatable laser powder bed fusion systems require real-time in-process monitoring to deliver right-first-time production capability. While finding defects after the printing process is the standard procedure, to identify correlations among in-process parameters, defects and part performance remain difficult to establish.

• By finding such correlations, we can design controlled processes capable of detecting functionally detrimental defects, in real time, through in-situ metrology. The first step to achieve real-time monitoring is to design and characterise a measuring system able to accurately measure the surface of the printed part and identify anomalies in the building part.

• For this purpose, a multi-view optical fringe projection technology has been released using a virtual environment and its performance has compared to the real system.

Ian Laidler, Chief Technology Officer, Wayland 

Wayland’s NeuBeam Additive Manufacturing Technology

• Introduction to Wayland Additive and the next generation of Electron Beam Metal AM machines.

Iain Todd, Professor of Metallurgy

Digitalisation of Additive Manufacture - using less and doing more with metals

• Additive Manufacture is often discussed as a clean manufacturing technology but there are several barriers to this being truly the case.
• Here I will discuss work on process control to ensure right first time manufacture and also discuss emerging business concepts such as materials as a service and digitally distribute inventory as ones enabled by this exciting technology.