APS Meetings 2024 Congress Program

Let's work together to develop the uses that will enable us to increase our volume in the service of a sustainable industry" - launch of a co-constructed communication plan to boost our Sector.

At MATERIALISE, we have the strong belief that Additive Manufacturing can deliver a big impact to make the world a better and healthier place for all people. From the start in 1990 we have worked on this mission and we keep doing so.  Economic value is generated with the novel products, therapies and business approaches that can be enabled by additive manufacturing when properly applied to meaningful applications.  During this presentation we discuss several applications and the underlying drivers that make the choice for AM, the best choice.  We will discover how the choice is also very ecosystem dependent and which obstacles to tackle.

MELTIO is a manufacturer of metal additive manufacturing machines using the wire laser process. Their machines come either as mobile heads that can be integrated into a robot or machining center, or as 3-axis machines. Meltio has just announced its new M 600 machine, which complements the M 450.  The M 600 is revolutionizing the supply chain for companies using machining centers, as it can produce preformed drafts in different materials in very short lead-times and can thus sometimes replace the foundry.

Post-processing is a critical step of the metal AM workflow, heavily influencing the final cost of the part. GF Machining Solutions has developed and presents a unique approach to the post-processing (machining) of metal AM parts.

Employees security, legal risks or environmental consequences of some post-print steps in additive manufacturing are frequently neglected. Let’s see what the risks and the solutions are.

The use of advanced composites materials for aerospace production tools in the Aerospace industry though robotic large scale pellet extrusion technologies and CNC machining to improve lead times, handling and total cost of ownership.

Printsky (Joint venture between SOGECLAIR and AddUp) in partnership with CEA and Onera have developed, manufactured and tested a heat exchanger for Green Aircraft challenges using additive manufacturing advantage with function integration and complex shape creation.

Standard Xray CT is the only Non-Destructive Technology able to provide such richness of data on Additive Manufacturing complex parts. Most of the time, parts have to be cut out from their massive support in order to be scanned by Xray CT, which gives constraints and deformations. Data acquisition will then consider shapes far from original ones. Nikon imagined a solution to solve this issue : Tilted CT.

3D printing is an excellent way to produce all types of tools, with very rapid returns on investment and impressive time savings and flexibility. We will present documented and quantified industrial application cases to you to prove the benefits of these solutions.