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EU funding (€12.4M): Additive Manufacturing using Metal Pilot Line Hor 1 Oct 2018 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Additive Manufacturing using Metal Pilot Line
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) allows, by enabling use of advanced design, production of high added value components, at levels that cannot be reached with conventional manufacturing technique. Still, the AM-based manufacturing sequence implies large amounts of critical steps – design for AM, AM fabrication, post processing, etc. – compared to conventional production sequences. Presently, the key competencies related to these steps are either not fully implemented at industrial level (process quality monitoring) or dispersed geographically with poor connection between different steps. Relying on two major AM technologies (LPBF: Laser Powder Bed Fusion and EBM Electron Beam Melting), MANUELA aims at deploying an open-access pilot line facility, covering the whole production sequence, to show full potential of metal AM for industrial AM production. At first, careful instrumentation and adaptation of LPBF & EBM machines will allow increased process reliability and speed. Secondly, the pilot line – including the adapted processes – will be deployed. The hardware layer will integrate novel process quality control monitoring and automated post-AM handling and processing. The line will be fed by design/optimization and AM process simulation workshops. Those workshops will collect continuous feedback from the physical parts of the pilot lines, to increase process reliability and robustness. MANUELA relies on a consortium composed of industrial end user’s, suppliers, (material/powder, AM hardware, quality monitoring system, software, automation and post-AM treatment) as well as top research institutes in powder-bed metal-AM, covering full range of AM technology chain for pilot line deployment. The deployed pilot line will be validated for use cases, covering wide span of applications including automotive, aerospace, energy and medical. To insure sustainability of the deployed line and its open access at project end, a dedicated exploitation plan will be established.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| ABB AB | €92,960 |
| Amires s.r.o. | €31,750 |
| Amires THE Business Innovation Management Institute ZU | €160,875 |
| Biomedical Engineering s.r.o. | €197,500 |
| Cardiff University | €476,213 |
| Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola AB | €2,476,125 |
| Csem Centre Suisse D'Electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA - Recherche ET Developpement | €1,743,598 |
| Eidgenossisches Institut FUR Metrologie Metas | €248,775 |
| Electro Optical Systems Finland Oy | €731,125 |
| Enel Green Power S.p.A. | €79,581 |
| Enel Produzione S.p.A. | €24,269 |
| Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg | €948,635 |
| Hitachi Energy Sweden AB | €7,856.88 |
| Hoganas AB | €114,125 |
| MSC Software GmbH | €593,340 |
| MSC Software Sàrl | €0.00 |
| MSC Software Srl | €0.00 |
| O.E.B. Srl | €153,134 |
| Osai Automation System S.p.A. Societa' Benefit | €221,125 |
| Politecnico Di Torino | €993,906 |
| Qioptiq Ltd. | €5,083.33 |
| Rise IVF AB | €880,280 |
| Rise Research Institutes OF Sweden AB | €604,860 |
| Ruag Slip Rings SA | €226,125 |
| Siemens Energy AB | €321,875 |
| Stiftelsen Chalmers Industriteknik | €1,115,000 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/820774
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