INTEGRADDE enhances environment, quality of life of European citizens and AM competitiveness:
- Innovation: tools, experience and know-how developed along INTEGRADDE enhances the innovation capacity through technology transfer impacting EU industry and academia.
- Competitiveness: project results strengthen INTEGRADDE industrial partners market positioning: commercialising innovative technology solutions that can significantly improve leadership and competitiveness of AM, efficient of manufacturing, lot size, design-freedom, etc. The impact expected for the industry and project results:
+ To increase reliability in AM processes by 40% and manufacturing speeds by 25%.
Reliability and time saving in the different fabrication stages were achieved. As an example, MX3D demonstrated a time reduction for WAAM in refitting CAD, tunning the process window, refining and generation of machine code.
+ To improve capacity to manufacture a good piece at first by 40% and in product quality by 40%.
Monitoring and automation of defect-detection operations allowed the improvements in the right first-time fabrication. Some examples of representative achievements are the porosity reduction in LOIRETECH due to the implementation of AM as fabrication process; the controls deployed in the AMIII, with NDT assessments after AM process (robotics + flash thermography); or the inline Metrology (3D scanning) providing a high accuracy dimensional control.
+ To reduce time to market by 25%. New certification schemes for metal parts printed in 3D.
Tight process control in LMD tool repair, through the application of correct process and control practices, ensures that repaired tools meet the required specifications and perform as expected. Monitoring LMD process parameters, ensures that they are within acceptable ranges and the use of 3D scanning improves, in terms of time and quality, LMD repairs and corrections to the repair process. MX3D demonstrated that the right process parameters window and printing file, in addition to the integrated software solutions along product lifecycle led to higher quality and cycle execution improvements.
+ Standardization roadmap by linking with current ISO/TC 261. INTEGRADDE project has stablished liaisons (ISO/TC 261/WG 2, SO/TC 261/WG 3, SO/TC 261/WG 4).
- Growth and jobs: INTEGRADDE contributes to create more and better high added-value jobs within the manufacturing industry. We have organized Open training, webinars and Certification Guidelines that allow gaining new relevant skills for the European workforce.
- Environmental: INTEGRADDE enables the integration of DED AM processes into current industrial production lines. With AM, waste is reduced to practically zero. INTEGRADDE is aligned with EU environmental challenges optimising sustainable production and efficiency.
- Contribution to EU Policies. INTEGRADDE initiative as flagship H2020 project aims an intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive growth and will became a leveraging effect on other sources of funding.
Address of the project public website:
http://www.integraddeproject.eu(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre). Finally, if you are a SME or a person interested in the INTEGRADDE Project you can reach us in:
pm.integradde@aimen.es
