End-to-end process control with standardized off-the-shelf components

With the increasing industrial use of Laser Powder Bed Fusion, the demands on the quality and efficiency of component production are rising. In research, there are many innovative approaches that extend the state of the art in this regard. These are being adopted by machine and component manufacturers to enable the industrialization of innovations. This article presents two examples of how the transfer from science to industry can succeed and how users can already test new technologies for their suitability for specific applications at an early stage. The first example is melt pool control with a closed-loop control circuit and its implementation with industrial machine components. The second example is a geometry-adapted process control to suppress edge elevation. Here, it is shown on a demonstrator geometry of a turbine blade how and with what industrially available means this is already possible today.

Presentation language: GER