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The purpose of the course is to present specifications techniques which are adequate to
small volume production of complex parts, made out from steel, aluminum, plastic, etc.
When developing a new product complex parts have to be made from final material (created
only from simulant material, in order to undertake functional tests, to validate the new product)
Only after that the classical tooling is produced for example molds for injection molded plastic
parts or classical dies for high pressure die casting.
There a limitations of the SLM processes due to a limited range of materials available for
SLM (30-60 m of the grains size).
There another type of innovative process to produce a complex steel part like EBM
(Electron Beam melting) using the machines produced by ARCAM (company).
The EBM machines are more sophisticated and faster as compared to the SLM machines
because the electron beam has a higher energy as compared to the laser beam.
Disadvantage of EBM is the fact that the part is made under the vacuum (VID).
The ARCAM machines are used more for end user production for medical application.
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