GE Addiver宣布了全球一系列客户服务中心和添加剂集成副总裁Mohammad Ehteshami，GE Addivity揭示了新的金属3D打印机的计划。
$15 million Customer Experience Center in Munich, Germany
Coinciding with the first day of the2017 Hannover Messe, GE announced plans to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing by opening a series of Customer Experience Centers (CRE). The first center will be located in Munich and allow, “current and potential customers to experience first-hand designing and producing components using additive manufacturing。”
The Munich CRE will feature up to 10 metal 3D printers from Arcam and Concept Laser and use, “GE’s cloud-based Predix operating platform to enable industrial-scale analytics and GE Edge devices, which provide real-time control and monitoring。”According to GE, “Customers will benefit from hands-on training and instruction at the facility, covering additive design, machine operations and support。”
第二个GE客户体验中心将于今年晚些时候宣布。Robert Griggs, general manager of the Customer Experience Centers for GE Additive said,“The concept of customer experience centres is an integral part of GE Additive’s strategy to expose and engrain the additive technology to manufacturers worldwide。”The Munich CRE will employ up to 50 GE Additive employees.
新的动力床融合金属3D打印机
Speaking to an audience that included Greg Morris, of Morris Technologies, at theMaterialiseWorld Summit in Belgium, Ehteshami gave further details of how GE are using 3D printing and what is on the horizon.
莫里斯（Morris）现在是Ehteshami团队的策略师，并在Material World Summit的人群中获得了热烈的掌声，因为他的公司在3D打印第一批Leap Engine燃油喷嘴方面的工作。
Ehteshami said that “很快,” GE will bring a new 3D printer to market. Developed with the capabilities added from the acquisition of Concept Laser and Arcam, this metal 3D printer will be a powder bed fusion machine with a build size that can be measured in meters. Ehteshami did not give further details but speculation around the conference was that the new machine may feature at theforthcoming RAPID event inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania。
但是，鉴于GE的3D打印采集仅在100天的大约100天，并且在航空航天等行业的时间表通常在几年中衡量：“很快” may be a relative turn of phrase.
Ehteshami also highlighted other aspects of GE’s approach to additive manufacturing and the company’s plans to sell 10,000 industrial 3D printers outside the company – including with theloans available from GE Capital。内部将需要另外1,000个工业3D打印机。雷电竞app下载
自从美国公司收购以来雷电竞app下载first reported purchase by the U.S. Navy of a Concept LaserM2 Cusing Machine于2017年2月。
Design for Additive Manufacturing
在内部，GE将添加剂制造分为三类。雷电竞充值Level 1 is component thinking, level 2 is systems thinking and level 3 involves tearing down the product and designing for additive manufacturing (DfAM). Level 3 thinking is exemplified by projects such as the Advanced Turboprop Engine (ATP).
The first engine in the ATP series, the GE93 will move to an advanced testing phase in Q3 2017. The development cycle of 4 years has decreased to 2.5 due to the use of additive manufacturing, furthermore the need for structural casting has been removed.
Cost savings through the use of additive manufacturing at GE are forecast at $1 billion over the next two yearsaccording to CEO Jeff Immelt。Revenue generating activity from 3D printing at GE will also come from the development of the AP&C metal powder for additive manufacturing facilities that come with the Arcam acquisition.
When questioned about the cost of producing the LEAP engine fuel nozzle, Ehteshami explained that GE think about this in two ways. Firstly, consideration is given to the cost of making the nozzle in an alternative manner – for the fuel nozzle additive was the only option. Secondly, parts such as the LEAP engine fuel nozzle are often made under contract by suppliers while for GE a joint venture -CFM International – withSafran飞机发动机，was established to supply the 19 nozzles used in each engine.
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特色图片显示GE添加剂在Formnext 2016上。迈克尔·皮奇（Michael Petch）的照片。
