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Additive Studios
Support services for MetalFab users
New to AM or an experienced user, our team can help maximise the benefit that AM can bring to your business.
A specialist team of design, manufacturing & materials Engineers with 100+ year’s experience developing AM products across Aerospace, Motorsport, Energy, Automotive & Hi-Tech Industries.
“We understand, advise, optimise & industrialise your AM applications”
Application expertise and support – end to end
Supporting customers throughout their journey to adopt, develop and maximise the benefits of metal additive manufacturing – from the early stages of adoption through to the development of advanced applications and materials. Collaboration with Additive Studios will help you:
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Navigate the complex AM journey -
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Reduce overall AM production costs -
Fast track knowledge in your organisation
The Additive Studios journey
- What should I build & how?
- Part assessments / business cases / DfAM workshops
- Proof of concept & early series production of parts
- R&D stage material exploration
- Detailed application development
- Detailed design for manufacture & production geometry freeze using advanced industry techniques & toolsets
- Bespoke customer parameter & material development
- Phase 1 Modules: Early stage DfAM knowledge & principles of AM value add applications
- Phase 2 Modules: Building Parts on the MetalFab – Process & Application knowledge transfer for beginner & advanced users
Our capabilities
We provide a range of services for AM users at any stage of their journey, including:
- New material development
- AM design assessment, consultation & support
- AM demonstration part manufacturing and early series production
- Bespoke application development projects
- Process development and parameter optimisation for specific applications
We work alongside our customers throughout their journey from machine purchase to industrial serial production
Leveraging our expertise we help customers optimize build setups using the latest simulation software tools, fine tune process parameters and create advanced support designs, helping them on their journey to make qualified production ready, mission-critical parts.
We support our customers to optimise and develop AM process parameters to meet very specific application requirements.
This approach can help to increase productivity, to reduce part cost/increase throughput, produce thin wall structures with structural requirements or optimise for specific engineering requirements such as high-cycle fatigue.
We can guide our customers throughout the entire journey to develop a new material.
Using our customer’s MetalFab system or our internal capabilities we can leverage our metallurgy and material development expertise to provide fully usable material parameters from first principles, ultimately supporting the integration of new material into customers production facility.
Real-life success stories from the field
Our Additive Studios Team has benefitted a range of customers by reducing costs, speeding up production with automation, and increasing product quality and design flexibility.
Find out how we worked with Volkswagen Group to realise significant cost and lead time reductions with a volume tooling application for their Tiguan vehicle production line….
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