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• Weight reduction
• Greater efficiencies
• Enhanced reliability
• Improved part performance
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIVE CASE STUDY: SPARE PART READINESS
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Smooth your supply chain.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIVE
Reduces lead time Lowers Enables mass Extends product Streamlines the Challenge 2
End users can print expenditures customization life span supply chain
low-volume parts With parts printed Freedom of design With optimized Additive enables more Long lead times
organically, reducing on-demand, with additive enables geometry and reduced flexible inventory Challenge 4
the time to acquire additive reduces manufacturers to welding and brazing, management, reducing The ability to manufacture a part for a replace-vs.-
replacement parts and production downtime customize tooling for additive extends the inventory and the repair scenario has a direct impact on turnaround time.
streamlining the supply and eliminates mass production of life span of outdated number of suppliers. Leverage additive to reduce the risk associated with MRO
Sustainment and readiness of
chain. the expense of bespoke parts. or damaged parts. and a diminishing supplier base, removing the burden
older equipment
high-volume of accessing and sourcing hard-to-find parts by printing Sustainment and readiness of older equipment. Keeping
replacement parts. them in-house. aged equipment operational is no small feat. Difficulties
accessing and sourcing the necessary spare parts could
represent a significant readiness challenge. But with
additive enabling the production of on-demand parts,
cold start time is greatly reduced.
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Additive parts at scale? We’re ready.
Our proven process helps you adopt
We are and will continue
additive—faster. to be super users.
GE has been on the forefront of 3D printing for nearly four decades. As ‘super-users’
Path to Production for Non-Critical Parts of additive equipment and with additive consultants around the globe, no one is
better positioned to help customers on their additive journey than GE Additive.
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Customer Satisfaction and AM Impact
With support
from GE Additive
With several strong patents around additive heat exchangers, we are leaders in developing thermal
2 management applications with additive. Our team has expertise in designing fuel-oil coolers, air-oil coolers,
Traditional
additive path fuel heaters, air-air precoolers for ECS systems, and more.
2 1 3 Airworthy additive parts started here. Members of our team helped with the first additive FAA certification
in 2015. We now have multiple part numbers certified, and over 20 parts in active certification projects. We also
estimate that GE Aviation has 23,500+ flight quality additive parts produced to date.
Trough of despair
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We have materials expertise with a both range & depth of aerospace materials and experience working
with external regulatory agencies for materials qualification. Several of our team members worked with
GE’s Aviation’s fuel nozzle, including powder, parameters, production and qualification. We can provide access to
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Years our materials development engineers, parameter/theme developers, materials process engineers, and materials
Adapted from Gartner Hype Cycle
application engineers.
Concept Sprint Development Sprint Production Sprint
What are the Application Sprints? Photo: GE Aviation’s Catalyst Engine, Heat Exchanger
Fast-track your path to full production of additive parts when you leverage the Application
Sprints from GE’s AddWorks™*.
Comprehensive support—workshops and training, Extra expertise where you need it, whether
hands-on consulting and print services—to in concept, development, qualification or
accelerate time to market full production
1. Identify a part. 2. D
esign the part for 3. Qualify the part and enable
metal additive. full production.
for you? place in vacuum and at high temperatures, file. Several different machine envelope sizes — depositing droplets of binder into
resulting in stress-relieved components with including the largest powder-bed metal additive the powder bed. GE is actively
material properties better than cast and system in the world — are available to meet the partnering with select companies
comparable to wrought material. needs of any industry. to bring this disruptive
technology to market in 2021.
Key advantages
• Easily create little to no supports on parts at • Create highly detailed and fine-feature parts •9
9.9+% material density
low costs directly from a CAD file achievable
High Productivity Surface Quality High Productivity
•A chieve high productivity for large volumes •A chieve exceptional surface characteristics and •N
o supports required, nest
• High process temperatures produce parts minimal porosity in 100% of the build box for
with no residual stress • Deliver best-in-class repeatability, productivity and maximum productivity
Cost-Effectiveness usability •S
uperior green strength allows for
•E nable use of reactive and crack-prone Productivity and Safety automated production solution
materials (e.g., TiAl) at low costs •S uited for highly regulated industries by providing Cost-Effectiveness
• Reuse powder extracted from the Powder superior part yield • L ow cost powder and infinite
Recovery Station (PRS) • Closed powder handling for less waste and operator powder reuse greatly reduces raw
exposure material cost
•E xtremely fast process creates
tremendous throughput
Coming 2021
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rcam EBM Ti6Al4V •A
rcam EBM Ti6Al4V • Stainless Steel 316L •A
luminum AlSi10Mg - • Stainless Steels 316L
Grade 5, P-Material Grade 5, P-Material • Stainless Steel 17-4PH Balanced
• Copper
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rcam EBM Ti6Al4V •A
rcam EBM TiAl, • Maraging Steel M300 •A
luminum AlSi10Mg -
• Nickel based alloys
Grade 23, P-Material D-Material • Aluminum AlSi10Mg Productivity
• Others under development
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rcam EBM Nickel • Aluminum AlSi7Mg • T itanium Ti6AL4V
alloy 718, D-Material • Nickel 718 Grade 23
• Arcam EBM Highly • Nickel 625 • Nickel 718
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Are you ready?
To rethink readiness and MRO efficiencies.
To accelerate production and shorten lead times.
To improve performance and reduce costs.
To look forward, not back.
Engineering.com, “Metal Additive Manufacturing Keeps Legend Flying, April 5, 2017, https://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/14684/
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Metal-Additive-Manufacturing-Keeps-Legend-Flying.aspx
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GE Reports, “Readying the first additive manufactured part for the GEnx engines | GE Aviation,”
www.geaviation.com/press-release/genx-engine-family/readying-first-additive-manufactured-part-genx-engines (2018)
Blair Clafin, “Cummins Takes Next Step in 3D Printing and the Future of Manufacturing,” Cummins, March 7, 2019, https://www.cummins.com/news/2019/03/07/
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test-flight-metal-3d-printed-part
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Gplast, 3D Cooling/Additive Manufacturing, http://www.gplast.com/3d-cooling-or-additive-manufacturing.php (accessed May 20, 2020).
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GE Additive Aerospace Precision Targeting EXTERNAL (accessed May 19, 2020).
GE Additive, “US Air Force and GE’s collaboration on metal additive reaches first technology milestone with 3D printed sump cover for F110 engine,”
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