Last year,Siemens Energy在德国的数字工程和添加剂制造业中扮演项目经理的角色（想法）项目，在联邦教育和研究部（BMBF）。
这项为期三年的合作企业最终旨在增强基于激光的粉末床融合的连续生产能力，从而提高了技术的生产率，同时将开发时间和吞吐时间减少了50％。现在，西门子的能源公司宣布该项目已达到下一个里程碑，因为该公司终于开设了试验设施来试行增添制造系列生产线。
The pilot production line
原型生产线，可以在Siemens gas turbine factoryin Berlin, was completed with the help of the BMBF’s ‘Line integration of Additive Manufacturing processes’ funding initiative. Its construction and subsequent operation mark an important step towards the industrialization of 3D printing in the country. The wider factory has previously been used by Siemens Energy to print some of its metal gas turbine components.
October 22 saw the inauguration of the production line with a virtual opening event, which included a ribbon-cutting ceremony conducted by Marcus Brücher, Vice President of Large Gas Turbines at Siemens Energy, and General Manager of the factory.
With the development and implementation phases out of the way, what follows is a validation process, whereby the project partners will determine how well the facility meets certain targets based on demonstration components printed on the production line. This second half of the IDEA project is expected to be completed in 2022.
想法项目合作伙伴
想法项目合作伙伴包括硬件和软件专家全态,BCT,Jenoptik,模块化， 和西门子数字工业， 和industrial 3D printer manufacturersEOS和TRUMPF.Liebherr,MBFZ toolcraft， 和MTU Aero Enginesare also involved. The project receives additional support from theFraunhofer激光技术研究所(ILT), theFraunhofer Institute for Production Technology（IPT），以及亚太大学.
The virtual opening event also included a moderated panel discussion with four of these project partners. Comprising the panel was Marie Langer of EOS, Markus Seibold of Siemens Energy, Karsten Heuser of Siemens AG, and Klaus Parey of TRUMPF.
仅在过去的一年中，就已经启动了许多与欧洲学术和工业合作伙伴的类似合作项目。在七月，来自8个欧洲国家的21个合作伙伴聚集在一起多收益项目– a three-year initiative aimed at advancing multi-material metal additive manufacturing. The project is funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 innovation program and comprises two parts: the first involves improving the performance of 2020’s metal AM systems while the second will focus on enabling the multi-material fabrication of complex, large-scale 3D models.
May 2020看到了发射POLYLINE project这是一个灯塔项目，汇集了来自德国各地的15个工业和研究合作伙伴，以开发数字化AM生产线。与IDEA项目一样，Polyline的自动生产线将重点放在汽车领域的3D打印串行聚合物零件上。
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特色图片显示了马库斯·布鲁彻（MarcusBrücher）切割缎带。通过西门子的照片。
