Race to Innovate: Exchanging Metal 3D Printing Solutions with HiETA
Discover how technology from Renishaw is helping HiETA Technologies move metal additive manufacturing (AM) from prototype into commercial production of its specialist range of heat exchangers.
The challenge was to firstly validate that metal AM could produce sufficiently thin walls and then to produce working parts. AM parameter sets were developed with Renishaw to enable production of leak-free thin walls then a full-size working unit, the HiETA HiEND recuperator, was manufactured on a Renishaw metal AM system to be combined with a Delta Motorsport micro turbine for a range-extended electric car.
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00:00:08 I'm Steven Miller senior project engineer here at Kaiser and we're really excited about design freedoms provided by you many sharable additive manufacturing technologies and attic manufacturing is helping us improve our ways of working in the automotive industry because it creates greater flexibility for us to be able to create low volume prototype cars and that are
00:00:32 very complex to manufacture under conventional methods so this is a heat exchanger it's a recuperator for a small gutter to the bund it's used in as a range extender for the gas turbine for an electric vehicle the component is a collection of very very fine features very thin walls very complex part it's allowed us to cram a lot of technology
00:00:56 into a small space has been developed over four years and it's fundamentally to fulfill a gap so the gap is trying to engineer an electric vehicle with a smaller battery pack but to do how's the range capability for those one of two of journeys where where you really need it we have been able to produce a part with the support Renishaw that is smaller lighter than anything else in the
00:01:19 marketplace and that means in an automotive application [Music] the partnership with hi eater has truly given us the opportunity to test the boundaries of additive manufacturing it's really exciting being able to break down these barriers between ideas and reality as the manufacture that's engineering being out for me it's the
00:01:48 look on people's faces when they see the cool products that we're actually making the long-term goal with the product is just to be able to demonstrate our capabilities the market turbine program is it's looking at how we can take something that we've developed a product we've developed into mainstream production Ventura's mission is to make metals additive manufacturing more
00:02:11 accessible to companies like later we're looking forward to in the future design in smaller lighter more efficient parts using the Rhenish or additive manufacturing machines and supplying these to our customers Brenna Shaw has over 10 years experience designing additive manufacturing technologies for the creation of parts directly from digital files the recent addition of
00:02:33 Rena Shaw's Ren am 500 M system at high seth has enabled manufacturing times and production costs to be reduced fanatically you