About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning
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Presentation Title |
F-68: Reducing Validation to Days, Enabling Rapidly Deployable Additive Manufacturing at the Front Line |
Author(s) |
Gareth Richard Tear, Jose Videira, James Bird |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Gareth Richard Tear |
Abstract Scope |
We present a case study in using Synbiosys’ digital approaches for rapid validation and qualification of additively manufactured (AM) parts for frontline manufacturing. Allied Armed Forces desire capabilities of additively manufacturing safety-critical spare parts, on demand, at the front line to massively reduce the logistical burden of carrying spare parts. It currently takes months and extraordinary amounts of tests (thus money) to validate and qualify 1 part on 1 printer. This capability requires validation to go down to 2 days at most, at minimal cost. We talk through our assessment of the challenges in enabling rapid validation of AM parts in this environment to unlock this capability, and how we overcome key hurdles. This includes the constantly changing manufacturing environment and location, the need for Lot 1 or small batch production, and the lack of access to large and expensive quality assurance machines in this “Frontline factory in a box”. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Other, Other |