Additive Studies

Would you like to scale your AM part production, but find post-processing too costly?

Reducing cost of L-PBF parts with the right support removal strategies. Fraunhofer IAPT is about to start a research study that will compare different approaches to support removal and offer technology-specific guidelines and designs to reduce the effort and cost of support removal.

  • Study duration: 10 months
  • Scheduled to begin in February 2025
  • Investigation of two materials and five removal strategies

Download Flyer Support Study.pdf

The study will enable you to

  • assess different support removal strategies
  • speed and simplify support structure removal
  • automate the support removal process most effectively
  • optimize support structures for your technologies

 

Be part of the study

How do seals and sealing technology benefit from 3D printing with silicone?

When it comes to custom production of seals in small quantities, such as batch sizes of one or prototypes of new seal geometries, creating the necessary tooling can be very costly. Join our feasibility study today to discover whether additively manufactured seals and silicones provide a cost-effective alternative!

  • Three inquiry levels starting from three participants and upwards
  • Study duration: 10 months
  • Scheduled to begin: in Q2 2025

Download Flyer Feasibility Study.pdf 

 

The study will

  • portray the opportunities and limitations of AM for processing silicones
  • provide an overview of the available technologies and materials
  • align the requirements of sealing technology with the capabilities of 3D printing
  • evaluate the processability of traditional materials from sealing technology
  • empower sponsors to influence the specific requirements and materials that Fraunhofer IAPT will investigate. 

 

Be part of the study