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Low-Cost Manufacturing Tools for the Automotive Industry

Clemson University researchers are developing new ways for 3D-printing affordable manufacturing tools for the automotive industry - see how they combine AI, inverse design, and additive manufacturing to drive research.

“The composite tool is a low-cost technology,” said Srikanth Pilla  , the project’s principal investigator. “At the same time, you can recycle the tools we will be creating. That’s why we decided to repurpose innovations that happened in the Clemson Composite Center for these kinds of applications.”

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3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing AR/AI Automotive Manufacturing & Prototyping

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    00:00:02 [ music ] Make metallic parts out of composite tools. That's  the key aspect of this research. Metallic tools   are very expensive, and especially if you want  to go for prototyping, prototyping typically has   like 20, 30 parts as a requirement. For  those 20, 30 components, you don't want   to really spend a lot of thousands of dollars.  So, a composite tool is a low-cost technology,   but at the same time, you can recycle  them if you design it properly. [ music ] This is a really exciting  interdisciplinary project, so   we're excited to see how AI can  help in the other disciplines. So,   this is the purpose of when we built this AI  Research Institute for Science and Engineering.

    00:01:17 From component to big-body, and to the  tooling stage, we are expanding our   research into different or more components  and the stages of automotive engineering.   So, it seems like our research is really  looking at different aspects of the entire   development and the design of the vehicle,  and that excites me a lot because we are   not just looking at the small part, we  are looking at everything as we can. Based on what we have offered to the  industry and what research we have done,   and the capabilities that we have and the  experience and expertise that we have,   Composites Center is a perfect place to  actually chase after this opportunity. [ music ]