As Founder ofDivergent Technologies, the developer of a novel platform designed to serve as an alternative to entire automotive production lines, Kevin Czinger knows a thing or two about building cars.
实际上，由他的公司磨练的不同自适应生产系统（DAPS）已成为一家有效的“数字车辆工厂”，以至于它已经在Czinger的第二个业务中使用了：Czinger车辆。There, the technology is being deployed to build the 1,250 horsepower21c，这是一种革命性的超级跑车，不仅具有3D打印的装饰，而且还具有承重性能至关重要的部分。
Now, ahead of his keynote speech at this year’sAdditive Manufacturing Users Group（AMUG）会议，创新者仅与3D打印行业坐下来，以揭示DAPS动摇汽车制造的所有潜力。
“DAPS can design, print, and assemble fully-optimized structures at an industrial rate,” explains Czinger. “Our vehicles represent the apex of that production technology, and the business model it enables — fabless car manufacturing. We seek to drive the transition between the existing 100-year-old analog tooling and stamping approach, to auto manufacturing and full digital manufacturing.”
建立“制造生态系统”
自2014年建立了不同的技术以来，Czinger已将其建立为完全合格的级别汽车供应商，现在它为许多主要OEM提供了车辆机箱和悬架系统。自然，该公司的功能围绕着DAPS（一种组合的软件硬件解决方案），该解决方案是用多合一的模块化汽车构建平台代替多个车辆生产步骤。
通过将3D打印整合到DAPS中，该公司使其变得灵活地成为模型不平衡的，因此可以用于在同一系统上使用多个不同规格的车辆制造车辆。因此，当给出一组数字要求时，DAPS可以自动计算工程师，3D打印和组装复杂的结构，而无需手动配置。
What’s more, in deploying additive manufacturing within such builds, the platform produces less waste than subtractive car production processes, making it relatively economical as well. However, speaking ahead of his AMUG keynote, where he intends to delve deeper into DAPS, Czinger explained that 3D printing is only part of a process that represents a leap “from the Selectric typewriter to a Mac desktop.”
“We didn’t adopt 3D printing, we started with a clean sheet approach to digital manufacturing as a system,” elaborated Czinger. “We looked at the capital, material, energy inefficiency and design constraints of existing analog auto-manufacturing, and architected and built a full end-to-end digital manufacturing system, of which additive manufacturing is one of the integrated sub-systems.”
“我们是自动化和数字化的完整系统functionality of design, manufacture and assembly from scratch, not simply trying to integrate offered solutions into an existing manufacturing system.”
接管超级跑车世界
Now putting the technology developed by its parent firm into practice, Czinger Vehicles is on a self-proclaimed mission to “change the way cars are designed and manufactured for generations to come.” This vision may sound bold, but it’s now starting to take shape in the form of the 21C, a $2 million hypercar driven by two EVs and a 2.88 liter V8, that enables it to go from 0-62 mph in 1.9 seconds.
“The 21C is a strong hybrid powertrain vehicle,” as Czinger himself puts it. “With two body variants, a high downforce body for high-speed cornering and low drag body for fast acceleration and top speed, this enables us to take on all hypercar competitors across the full range of performance metrics, from production track records at places like COTA to setting records for the production quarter-mile.”
仍在开发中，据说21C具有多个SLM Solutions-3D打印零件，包括Inconel排气系统和挡风玻璃粘合剂，具有足够的强度和完整性，可在极高的速度下部署。由于其1,250马力的输出和超轻1,200公斤的重量，奇特的情调甚至足够快，可以挑战性能电动汽车特斯拉的跑车。
In terms of the vehicle’s construction, just 80 are set to be built in total, and Czinger not only confirmed that the first deliveries remain on course for 2023, but that his firm has already taken the hypercar down to the Laguna Seca and COTA race tracks, where it smashed the production car lap records, before teasing that the 21C will have “ultra-performance” successors in the decade to come.
Automotive at AMUG Conference 2022
与往常一样，Amug的2022会议有望成为3D打印日历的亮点之一，与会者有机会建立联系，利用培训机会并获得行业领导者的见解。
At this year’s event, Czinger is set to deliver one of two keynote speeches, in which he says he plans to “focus on how one builds a clean-sheet architected digital system, and then commercializes it.” With the other keynote being delivered by Ellen Lee, aFord因此，该公司的3D印刷研究负责人，参与者将听取已建立和破坏性的汽车创新者的来信。
AMUG教育与会议总监Jordan Weston补充说：“听到凯文（Kevin）和艾伦（Ellen）对汽车行业现在和未来的'相似但不同的'观点会很有趣。”“一方面，我们将有一位寻求破坏的年轻公司的观点。另一方面，我们将听取一家大型，成熟的公司，以寻求适应和领导。”
除了看到Czinger和Lee的主题演讲现场外，与会者还将在整个活动的五天内访问150人的演示时间表，讨论，讲习班和动手课程。在一场旨在认识那些真正推动信封的人的比赛中，Amug技术竞赛也将返回，Innovators’ Showcase，越来越受欢迎DINO Awards。
For those interested in attending the AMUG 2022 Conference it’s not too late to register, and those that do so can still take advantage of a 27% registration fee discount if they sign up before March 11, 2022, with the fee covering tickets to the above as well as off-site gatherings, networking receptions and catered meals.
潜在的与会者可以使用AMUG在线注册表格现在申请。
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特色图像显示Czinger 21c。通过Czinger车辆照片。
