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Oerlikon的迈克尔·苏斯(Michael Suess)教授在工业化的主要挑战和机遇方面

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Advanced Manufacturing Technology Conference(AMTC) has just concluded in Aachen, Germany, organized by Swiss technology groupOerlikon

Under the umbrella theme “Momentum for Growth”, this year’s conference brought together industry leaders and experts from across industry, government, and academia to discuss the future of additive manufacturing and the role it can play in tackling issues such as climate change, population growth, and increasing consumer expectation for personalized products.

在会议期间,有60多位发言人谈到了3D印刷行业的最新发展。来自Boeing,,,,西门子,,,,McKinsey,,,,and奥迪围绕新材料,教育,标准以及扩展和定制硬件以及其他主题的成功案例,讨论了当前面临3D打印和高级制造业工业化的机遇和挑战。

3D印刷行业在会议期间与Oerlikon董事长Michael Suess教授相遇,以了解他对添加剂制造的未来方向以及该行业如何利用该技术目前的增长势头。

迈克尔·苏斯(Michael Suess)博士向AMTC 2021致辞。
迈克尔·苏斯(Michael Suess)博士向AMTC 2021致辞。

增材制造业务部门成立于五年前。Oerlikon的添加剂制造业如何发展,该公司的主要重点是什么?

我们已经验证并验证了该行业中的流程能力和我们的能力,这已经花费了两三年,现在我们拥有多个领域,我们积极参与了大量的项目。这些不仅是原型的,而且是能源,空间,航空和防御部门的真实,严肃的项目。这就是主要驱动因素的地方,因为这通常与性能有关。

We have further to develop and improve our yield rates on materials in size of the corns and even in shape. That means we have yield rates below 50 percent, so less than 50 percent of the material powder you have produced you can use in the process, which is driving costs down.

我们还必须提高印刷过程的生产率,因为我们三到四年前购买的激光设备已经过时了,因为该行业在这一领域的生产力方面做得很好。我们必须在这里专注于正确的业务模型,无论我们可以使用三年或四年过时的设备,还是必须注销。这些是主要重点。

今年的AMTC活动的意义是什么?如何促进有关增材制造的对话?

这title is “Momentum for Growth”, and we had a break during Covid because direct interaction between customers was more difficult. We couldn’t travel to the US and people from the US couldn’t travel to Europe. Meanwhile, within Europe, we had a lot of limitations to develop our projects further.

另一方面,我们看到的是,尤其是设备制造商,特别是在技术验证过程中显示出改进。我们三年前推出的许多事情,即使在整个Covid,我们都可以验证和验证,现在准备解决市场。

国会的目的是查看我们现在可以在哪些领域中产生真正的增长。因此,在哪些行业中,哪种行业,我们可能会产生哪种影响,我们如何改善行业之间的合作,以及工业,科学和政治之间的合作。此外,我们可以从Horizo​​n 2020和后续计划等计划中做些什么,以涵盖该行业的高资本强度,尤其是在上升阶段。

AMTC-高级制造技术会议2021天。
AMTC – Advanced Manufacturing Technology Conference 2021 Day 2. Photo via Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon.

您认为在串行制造应用中进一步采用AM需要解决的主要挑战或问题?

第一个关键挑战是让设计师和决策者意识到3D打印的机会。So that means if you are sitting in a procurement department and you have to decide about a product, whether it is additive or not, you’re looking at the price cap, you’re not looking at the wider horizon time-to-market or the integration functionality of five other parts. You don’t have the design understanding with the engineers about what can be achieved with additive regarding functionality over classic manufacturing methodologies. This understanding is one of the biggest challenges.

然后,第二个挑战是如何教导这个。我们需要一种添加剂学院,人们可以去那里,了解那里发生的事情以及他们如何自己利用该技术。对我来说,将合适的大学的合适人士带入添加剂行业是一个巨大的挑战。那么,我们如何使其具有吸引力?

我认为这是学生但很有吸引力的the universities have not yet adapted with a curriculum to train students outside of the classic methodologies. Additive is not just mechanical engineering or electrical engineering but a combination of both, including software capabilities and material science capabilities. So, we are working with universities such as TUM and RWTH to adopt this.

最后,“超级连接”仍然缺失。许多AM发展都在全球范围内分散,但是没有人可以访问其他地方的情况,因此您可以获得五种不同的方法来实现相同的解决方案。对于制造商,每个制造商都有不同的系统来输入各种打印机上的材料和不同的物流系统,那么标准和信息交换在哪里?这些是AM生产更大采用的一定局限性。

How can the crossover between academia and industry be improved to further the adoption of AM?

Metal-based additive manufacturing is 15 years, maximum 20 years old, and polymer-based is 40. There’s almost a baby effect compared to other industries. That’s why we’re forming cooperations withtum,,,,RWTH Aachenand other international universities. TUM have an incubator for start-ups to help them to develop because often the second or third wave in start-up phase is the critical one.

Also, there needs to be more interdisciplinary curriculums for students. Here, we are working with many universities to create this curriculum. In the end, it is a war on talent. On one hand, you have digitization, climate change, environmental technologies that need the right talent, and to show students that additive has a massive impact in all these verticals which are, in the end, driving a more sustainable industrial society to support addressing climate change.

For instance, how additive can achieve weight reduction in equipment by integrated functionality and resource utilization is an interaction where university and industry must work together. We will not make it without the universities.

AMTC迈克尔·苏斯(Michael Suess)博士在AMTC舞台上与RWTH AACHEN大学的Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum教授,TUM的Nikolaus A. Adams教授以及西门子数字工业的Karsten Heuser博士。通过Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon的照片。
AMTC迈克尔·苏斯(Michael Suess)博士在AMTC舞台上与RWTH AACHEN大学的Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum教授,TUM的Nikolaus A. Adams教授以及西门子数字工业的Karsten Heuser博士。通过Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon的照片。

在这一点上,在解决未来的气候变化方面可以发挥什么作用,机会在哪里?

这不仅是气候变化的讨论,而且是关于Covid的讨论;我们的全球供应链的可持续性如何?我们已经与世界经济论坛(WEF)关于我们的制造平台,我们看到从该地区到该地区将有更多的制造业。仍然必须有一个敞开的全球贸易天空,但是区域设置将会更加开放。

This would reduce climate exposure through shortening logistics, if you have less transportation you’re saving energy in transporting systems or equipment. Transporting powder is different to transporting parts, maybe we could take away 20-30 percent of the world’s global trade volume in this way.

如果您要通过添加剂来做更多的事情,那么这样的影响是将来将使用和构建的设备将更有效,例如通过材料消费。古典制造线也可能花费财富,而不是安装3D打印机,这也可以分散。

添加剂正在改变过程,然后这些过程在具有不同应用的垂直领域中实现,并且在我眼中扮演的这种间接角色添加剂非常重要。我们不必将所有制造基地移至低成本国家,然后将零件运回要使用的零件,而是可以在消费者已经在的地方生产它们。

Oerlikon在使金属AM流程更加可靠,可持续性和成本效益中扮演什么角色?

We are working very closely with our equipment manufacturing partners to bundle our additive cluster of different technologies together in order to optimize the value chain. Here we have a massive leading role because we do not own products, we own processes. So, we have to interact with someone who has a product requirement to help them to fulfill the specifications of sustainability, such as the amount of resources the product will need, how long it will last, energy consumption, and so on.

With our activities in material research and improving our manufacturing processes, we have verified our quality certifications in different industries. Unfortunately, we cannot talk about a lot of these products as they are owned by our partners, but they are happening in strategic fields such as defense, space, energy, and healthcare.

AMTC 2021Day 2 at Eurogress in Aachen. Photo via Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon.
AMTC 2021Day 2 at Eurogress in Aachen. Photo via Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon.

您如何看待影响AM的经济政策,以及政府投资AM技术的潜在谎言?

政府可以通过帮助初创企业的参与者来支付高资本成本,仅在现金苛刻的行业中提供现金,从而加速采用添加剂。如果有更多的钱,我们可以更快地发展。因此,将更多的研究资金和某些资金分配给添加剂技术,而不是为单一产品或子公司提供资金。

I think it should be less bureaucratic. All these European programs are consuming more or less the money they are spending on the programs due to the amount of paperwork you have to undertake before you qualify. It is a question of speed and efficiency of the money in these programs, I believe is the money was given more on a regional basis and was less bureaucratic, we could achieve much more.

在2020年的Horizo​​n中,我认为高级制造业有大约30亿欧元,在这方面是添加剂的一部分,但是我看到了我们拥有的机会以及公司的支出,这仍然是很小的钱。

其次,获得一些钱的努力有时比您获得的钱还要大,而且公司根本不参与。因此,最终,参与其技术的人们有时并不那么有前途,而没有参与的潜力的公司最终会自己做。因此,在这里,我们在政客和欧盟想要实现的目标与实际上如何运作之间存在巨大的不匹配。

Do you see this changing, and what can be done?

我认为实际上我们正在朝错误的方向移动。政府正在研究以感知为导向的事情:我们可以快速做什么,听起来不错?肯定缺乏对系统思维和政治的了解,已经变得更短期以民粹主义为导向。这与科学和工业不符。

您如何看待AM在基础设施方面振兴城市地区的作用?

Additive definitely needs less production space than classical industries, because you have printers and post-processing which you can do on a small base. What additive can bring is a decentralized industry. 15 years ago, we had smaller companies within cities and the work was with the people, and today work has become concentrated as a result of the scaling effect of conventional manufacturing, with people commuting to work.

我认为,如果城市对此开放,可以恢复振兴城市。要在城市拥有更多的行业,您需要更多的物流,并且必须接受一定程度的流量。另一方面,如果您进一步走到城市就像墓地一样,每个人都在骑自行车上下班,这将行不通。尽管我们不需要从城市搬出的大型植物,但在人们的后院仍将进行工业活动,有50或100人在3D打印机上工作。而且我不确定城市是否为此做好了准备,还是居住在那里的人们。

AMTC的观众Michael Suess教授。通过Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon的照片。
AMTC的观众Michael Suess教授。通过Robert Gongoll/Oerlikon的照片。

Which industries do you see AM transitioning to industrial production in the near future, and how could this impact supply chains resiliency?

我们在能源领域看到了这一点,在石油和天然气部门以及国防,空间和医疗部门中都看到了这一点。目前,汽车即将进行,因为它是电池驱动还是合成燃料驱动的,还是以氢为导向的变化。因此,在未来方向上不安全的行业。

他们将不得不像我们这样的行业触摸行业,而轻度的重量是关键要素。如果您想将电池添加到100公斤的汽车中,则必须减轻其他地方的体重。另一方面,您仍然存在添加剂的成本问题,这并不能真正满足廉价汽车质量生产的要求。因此,在这个领域,我会说技术是载体的利基产品。

这n, for sure within industries like casting to make tools out of additive printed parts to drive up productivity, and last but not least the luxury goods market, such as jewelry design or lighting systems. The individualization aspect of 3D printing works here, as while it is not the cheapest solution it allows companies to design far beyond what they could with classical methodologies.

AM部门当前经历的增长势头如何被大写?

What we have seen from our efforts over the last couple of years is active growth of 80 percent at our sites, so it is massively growing. Now, we need to see how we can cope with that. Now, it is still people-driven or process-driven, and five years down the road you will have few products in the industry that are only additive-driven.

通过提供传统技术无法实现的替代解决方案,我们认为对古典行业处于具有挑战性的位置将需要我们更长的时间,我认为加性不会挑战它们。在航空航天中,这次驱动器比商业部门更多,尽管这将回来,然后它将大大驱动。

能源系统全部涉及电池,合成燃料,氢和燃烧室,它们需要不同,更复杂的设计才能进行冷却。在半导体区域,我们看到的某些应用程序是一个非常动态的市场。也在医疗保健中。

这industry has to cope with a wide range of different requirements and to be very flexible in responding to them, and this is a challenge because you have limited resources. You need to decide where you allocate resources, which is the most promising application, and then there will be right and wrong orientation, and some companies will simply run in the wrong direction.

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