How Additive Manufacturing Is Like Five-Axis Machining
It’s not the similarities in the technologies, but in how they were and are being adopted.
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Like five-axis machining, additive manufacturing’s adoption will accelerate as its best applications are identified. These metal parts were built on DMG MORI’s Lasertec 30 SLM powder-bed additive manufacturing machine.
“We used to ask ourselves ‘Five-axis machining is interesting, but what can I use it for?’” recalls Patrick Diederich, managing director of Sauer GmbH. The rapid adoption of the technology didn’t happen until designers and engineers began to understand its benefits, and to design products around the capability of five-axis machines.
“现在，添加剂制造也是如此，”他说。“一旦公司开始了解如何根据添加机器的能力设计如何为其优势设计零件，采用将是巨大的。”
What still stands in the way of this understanding? Mr. Diederich cites several obstacles:
- 了解AM提供的可能性。与五轴加工一样，公司需要弄清楚最好的应用和用于添加制造的应用。
- Materials. Manufacturing specifications for machining may suggest a material that is not suitable for AM; instead, it is better for designers to specify material properties and learn to work with AM materials.
- Process control. In order for AM to be accepted, it is critical that the process be monitored and controlled to maintain the quality of parts made this way.
阅读更多关于添加剂制造的进展，包括来自DMG MORI的新选择性激光熔化系统，in this report from Barbara Schulz, European correspondent forModern Machine ShopandAdditive Manufacturing.
