这悉尼大学has announced the opening of a ‘factory of the future’ through which it aims to drive 3D printing innovation and put the region “at the heart of Industry 5.0.”
根据该大学的达灵顿校园，这座耗资2500万美元的网站配备了所有设计，3D打印，后处理和表征装备，以发挥其作为以生产为中心的研究设施的潜力。为了帮助将综合大楼的发现转化为最终用途应用程序，大学还与GE添加剂, with which it has agreed to collaborate on ‘experimental R&D.’
“This facility will support the collaboration of industry and researchers, and is set to become a commercialization hub for new products and innovations across a range of advanced manufacturing industries,” explains GE’s Sam Maresh. “We see the value of the new facility as an industrial incubator, underpinning rapid advances in manufacturing and developing world-leading skills for Australian SMEs.”
Sydney’s ‘factory of the future’
Built as a ‘foundational node for complementary facilities,’ the complex is set to not only house projects run by New South Wales’ government, but those featuring industry partners, involving the R&D of 3D printing and material processing.
Thanks to its design optimization and post-printing technologies, as well as its alloy, ceramic and polymer-compatible systems, the facility could be well-placed to facilitate 3D printing’s introduction into new applications. It’s therefore fitting that these ‘concept-to-production capabilities’ are set to be used by students plus SMEs and larger firms, many of which are entering metal 3D printing for the first time.
On the other end of the scale, through more advanced research, the facility’s Director Simon Ringer says that it could even be possible to harness 3D printing’s wide material processing, sustainability and in-sourcing benefits, as a means of “dramatically disrupting” manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, biomedical, defense and construction sectors.
林格说：“先进的制造业使以前的不可能成为可能。”“关键行业将通过减少材料废物，简化的供应链以及独立创造材料，组件甚至整个机器的独立能力，从这些技术中受益 - 所有这些都无法使用传统制造业。”
“使用这些技术，我们很快就可以看到澳大利亚设计的和建造的太空火箭发动机，高超音速车，卫星，生态活动的建筑和建筑。”
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As well as playing host to academic research projects, the facility is also set to offer specialized consulting and training to industrial partners, which will have guided and independent access to the facilities for testing, research and fabrication.
Already, the institution has revealed GE Additive to be one such partner, with the two organizations agreeing a five-year deal to advance Australia’s manufacturing capabilities during 2020. The agreement, which follows the ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the pair in 2018, is expected to see them collaborate on material R&D, in addition to “experimental work” at the facility.
Said to be fitted with ‘state-of-the-art’ GE Additive technologies’ the complex will also serve as a hub in which the firm can demonstrate its 3D printing systems to Australian and New Zealand-based clientele, in a way that Maresh says could allow it to not only unlock “rapid advances in manufacturing,” but develop “world-leading skills for Australian SMEs.”
Maresh补充说：“悉尼制造业枢纽现已开展业务，并准备与新南威尔士州的行业互动，尤其是中小企业，那里有很大的高技能工作机会。”“新南威尔士州正在将自己定位在亚太地区的AM能力和研究中心，而悉尼制造中心是实现这一野心的重要一步。”
GE’s advancing Additive portfolio
Operating as a subsidiary of U.S conglomerateGE，GE添加剂市场DMLM，EBM和Binder Jet 3D打印机以及软件和雷电竞app下载AP&Cmaterials, to clients in the automotive, aerospace, defense and medical sectors. The firm has invested heavily in its AM capabilities over the last five years, firstbuying Arcam and Concept Laserin 2016, then building anEBM卓越中心容纳它的机器。
在这一过程中,通用电气已经有效地把自己从a user of the technology into a supplier, and it continues to market systems under these acquired brands to this day. GE’s Concept Laser M Series, for instance, was adopted by theEROFIO集团for3D打印模具芯2021年6月，三个月后Tsunami Medical安装了两台MLAB机器to ramp up its spinal part production.
GE添加剂is also preparing to launch a successor to itsH1 Binder Jet 3D printer。Known as the ‘H2,’ the company’s upcoming system has already been由康明斯公司安装在其他一系列Beta网站中，它宣布了partnership with Sandvik去年10月，通过Ospreymetal powders were qualified for use with the H2.
More broadly, GE Additive has continued to seek out partnerships that stretch the capabilities of its technologies,agreeing to work with BEAMIT2021年10月，为了优化GE9X和Catalyst Jet Engine零件的后处理，与悉尼大学的扩展合作现在为此提供了另一个机会。
“By partnering with GE Additive, an industry leader in additive manufacturing, we can set the agenda for this disruptive technology,” the university’s Principal, Dr Michael Spence said following the organizations’ MoU back in 2018. “[Our] collaboration will drive the R&D needed to learn how this disruption to manufacturing can be harnessed for economic benefit.”
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特色图片显示，澳大利亚贸易和工业部长The Hon推出了悉尼的制造业枢纽。Stuart Ayres（左六分）。图片通过比尔·格林/悉尼大学。
