Additive manufacturing
Oerlikon and TU Munich cooperate
With the TUM-Oerlikon Advanced Manufacturing Institute, the partners want to advance additive manufacturing technologies
The institute, located on the TUM campus in Garching, will initially have an annual budget of three million euros for five years. TUM researchers and the scientific team from Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing will work closely together here.
Over the next five years, up to 30 dissertations are to be supervised, researching technical issues along the entire value chain. This includes, for example, the development of customized new materials as well as investigations into the printing process, the process-material interaction and the entire additive production process.
Globally visible center
TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann says: "Together with Oerlikon, we want to make Munich a globally visible center for additive manufacturing technologies. The cooperation ideally complements our "Industry on Campus" strategy in order to more closely interlink science and application in practice and make decisive contributions to the industrialization of additive manufacturing technologies."
Dr. Sven Hicken, Head of the Oerlikon Business Unit AM, emphasizes: "In order to leverage synergies in the cooperation between the university and ourselves, we have decided to relocate the headquarters of our business unit together with our own research department from Feldkirchen to Garching. This benefits both partners: the doctoral students can use our hardware, such as our 3D printers and our laboratories, and we are close to the research activities of the University of Excellence."
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus A. Adams, Head of the Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at TUM, which is responsible for the institute, explains the focus of the projects: "Our research is primarily focused on technical hurdles which, once overcome, can accelerate the development of metal 3D printing. For example, we are already working together on new, highly stable lightweight aluminum-based alloys that are in high demand in the industry, on sophisticated new simulation methods for predicting the melting and solidification process of metal powders and on the development of a digital process for certifying components for the aviation industry that are produced using advanced manufacturing."
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