Objective
The manufacture of dies and moulds is very often a major obstacle for the production of cast and moulded components. Tools can be complex and is traditionally manufactured using an 'ad-hoc' design process, conventional materials with extensive machining operations. The project will develop a PC based CAD independent software system which couples to the novel Selective Laser Melting Rapid Prototyping method of making fully dense metal components of net shape to achieve high quality tooling which has lower cost and shorter lead times than conventional tooling. The technique can build integral cooling channels at positions and of shapes not possible by machining. The characteristics of the SLM process together with the toolmaking software development will provide a complete toolmaking capability. The software system will avoid the need to invest in expensive CAD systems. Exploitation will be immediate on avaibility of the software packages and the use of the optimised SLM machine. The project will provide toolmaking capabilities not currently available giving the European Community an unequalled competitive advantage in this field.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications system software
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering subtractive manufacturing
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- natural sciences physical sciences optics laser physics
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Coordinator
S2 3PT SHEFFIELD
United Kingdom
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