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3D Printing Stronger, Lighter Metal Works for Automotive & Aerospace Industries

A Purdue University innovation that produces stronger, lighter metal parts that work for the automotive and aerospace industries through a 3D printing technology is being commercialized through Frontier Additive Manufacturing LLC, a Crawfordsville, Indiana-based company. "We are commercializing a multiple-laser method to create products at the micro-structural level that exceeds current 3D printing capabilities' structural integrity with the ability to adjust material properties in the original location of the part, " says the company's president, Eric Lynch. Frontier Additive Manufacturing's technology will be able to create a finished product in one setup from a CAD design that can be used to replace worn parts in manufacturing with drop-in capabilities where no other modifications are needed for the replacement part to function as an original. The patented technology was developed in the laboratories of Gary Cheng, a Purdue University associate professor of industrial engineering and Yung Shim, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering.

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    00:00:01 Purdue University is an international leader in technology transfer and start-up creation one of those startups is Frontier Additive Manufacturing which has developed cutting-edge additive manufacturing capabilities to produce stronger lighter metal work for the automotive and aerospace industries through the use of specially-designed high-tech 3D printers this technology uses a unique multiple laser method to create products that the atomic level that exceeds current 3D printing capabilities in accuracy, flexibility

    00:00:35 and surface finis. This patented technology was developed in the laboratory of Gary Chang a Purdue associate professor of industrial and chemical engineering and director of the Scalable Micro Nano Manufacturing Center at Purdue and Yung Shin a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for laser-based manufacturing Normally right now the 3D-printed mechanical component the strands is only 60 to 70 percent other compared to the mechanical property of the traditional manufacturing process

    00:01:12 so that's a really big problem for the additive manufacturing process. We are actually trying to solve this problem by actually using multi lasers to be able to print the multi ( ) we designed 3d structures so by this way we actually can control the mechanical properties on each layer and will be able to control the microstructures and see distress on each layer so then I eventually we can accurately print 3-d component

    00:01:47 with a secure a mechanical and physical property can guarantee the existing process. The technology used by Frontier can take a cab design to a finished product in one set up and can replace worn parts and manufacturing with dropped in capabilities Frontier's feature is very bright we have many customers lined up ready to engage with this because they too have manufacturing limitations with their traditional methods they have issues with the current additive manufacturing

    00:02:21 seen our ability to address the true issue of materials underneath is a very big benefit to our customers so we have many industries we can address from aerospace which is now an early adopter of additive manufacturing automotive and medical device there on the fast file worker and then oil and gas and they're anxious to see what we can do to help their products to find more information about this and other Purdue technologies visit otc-prf.org/otc