The Main Minds and AM I Navigator initiatives have created the Additive Manufacturing Alliance to collaborate on chosen joint actions that speed up the economic adoption of additive manufacturing.
Each anticipate to proceed to function and interact independently ‘the place applicable’, however consider their complementary approaches and areas of focus will current efficient collaboration alternatives. One instance is Main Minds’ efforts to construct understanding of AM’s potential and help firms to beat preliminary adoption obstacles, whereas AM I Navigator offers data on real-world use instances and ‘transformation insights.’
Main Minds was established at Formnext 2024 to carry collectively eight main additive manufacturing companies to deal with obstacles to adoption. AM I Navigator, in the meantime, launched 12 months earlier and locations its deal with advancing the additive manufacturing maturity of events throughout the worth chain. By aligning their efforts, the Alliance helps the ‘shared goal of advancing additive manufacturing as a core industrial know-how and enabling its scalable adoption throughout industries.’
Preliminary joint actions of the Additive Manufacturing Alliance will deal with data alternate, joint trade communication, and supporting firms alongside their path towards industrialising additive manufacturing.
“Our shared aim is to make additive manufacturing extra accessible, much less complicated, and extra built-in into on a regular basis industrial manufacturing,” says Brigitte de Vet-Veithen, CEO of Materialise, on behalf of the Additive Manufacturing Alliance. “Collectively, we may also help extra firms throughout a greater variety of industries profit from the flexibleness, effectivity, and innovation that AM permits.”
Can Main Minds get additive manufacturing out of a bind?
Group Content material Supervisor Sam Davies speaks to Materialise concerning the Main Minds consortium the corporate is facilitating.
Since Siemens, DyeMansion, HP, BASF Ahead AM, and EOS launched AM I Navigator in 2023, the initiative is claimed to have supported a number of industrial transformation applications, with firms utilizing its maturity mannequin to benchmark present AM capabilities, align investments throughout the method chain, and derive clear roadmaps in direction of greater ranges of automation, high quality and financial viability. Materialise, AMTPro, AZO, Capgemini and BCG have all joined the trouble since 2023, with Wohlers Associates, powered by ASTM Worldwide, becoming a member of the trouble final month.
“By way of the newly launched AM I Navigator web site, firms worldwide can independently and freed from cost assess their additive manufacturing maturity and discover transformational insights derived from confirmed industrial functions,” says Karsten Heuser, Vice President Additive Manufacturing at Siemens. “The evaluation instruments are voluntary sources designed to assist firms of all sizes from startups to world producers benchmark their capabilities and establish enchancment alternatives.”
Main Minds, in the meantime, is made up of Ansys, EOS, HP, Materialise, Nikon SLM, Renishaw, Stratasys, and ATLIX (previously Trumpf Additive Manufacturing). Its first initiative centred on addressing the fragmentation and complexity of AM terminology with a typical language framework that allows producers and know-how suppliers to speak extra clearly and persistently. Since its introduction, the framework has been expanded to cowl all domains of the additive manufacturing manufacturing course of and is ‘already being actively used with clients who worth its capability to make conversations about AM clearer, standardised, and actionable.’
Manufacturing Know-how Deployment Group has turn into the consortium’s latest member, with Dean Bartles, who just lately turned an AMGTA Board Member, set to signify the organisation inside Main Minds.
