A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with James White, Director, Additive Manufacturing Strategy Consulting Practice, CIMdata
September 14, 2017
11:00 EDT | 08:00 PDT | 17:00 CET
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For millions of years, design has been approached the same way. Additive Manufacturing (AM) gives us new manufacturing freedom we never contemplated, but few companies are considering what that means to design, instead treating AM as a new type of production equipment; an alternate to a molding machine for example, using the same digital design file. The time has come to take advantage of AM by re-inventing our traditional approach to design.
Historically, we have assumed that a product must be broken down into base individual components, which are then assembled according to a predefined process, then then put together, often in an enclosure of some kind, to become a final product. Whether it’s a plane, smart phone, medical device, building, ancient aqueduct, or Egyptian pyramid, we approach design the same way. Modern AM machines can produce end-use quality production parts in materials such as thermoplastics, polyamides, polystyrenes, composites, and metals; even combinations of materials in a single part. Modern software tools such as Generative Design and Topology Optimization help define shapes beyond what a person might envision or create using a CAD system. Despite the availability of machines, materials, and software tools capable of designing radically new AM parts, we still use our pragmatic, ancient “approach” to designing the final product. Now is the time to re-think how we go about designing for AM.
This webinar will show how the implementation of DfAM processes can help evolve a new design/manufacturing strategy rather than merely adopting AM as an alternate production technique.
During the webinar you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.
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