Ceramics Expo
Advanced additive manufacturing increasingly relies on specialty ceramic materials to fully exploit all the potential fabrication avenues, particularly when it comes to complex components for the aerospace, medical, and automotive industries, plus prototyping. Make sure of your free-to-attend ticket for this year’s most important event in the field – Ceramics Expo (April 25–27, 2017).
Not only can you meet the suppliers of technical ceramic materials, but also the leading international innovators of 3D ceramic printing techniques and machines. Take the opportunity to network extensively with 3,000+ attendees, 300+ exhibitors and 60+ expert speakers over the three days.
Alongside your expo visit, find out more about new applications, design issues, standards, testing, and technology transfer by participating in Conference @ Ceramics Expo, staged right alongside the exhibits. The conference is completely free to attend – just pre-register online for your free pass.
Conference @ Ceramics Expo
Wednesday April 26
10.30am Developing Additive Manufacturing Applications for Ceramic Parts
As additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly being implemented in manufacturing processes it is rapidly becoming a viable forming technology for a broad scope of materials such as plastics and metals. Although ceramic additive manufacturing is continuously undergoing development and more processing technologies are becoming available, the actual application of ceramic additive manufacturing is limited due to the high price point.
Ceramics Expo 2017
At the moment, additive manufacturing is proving to be effective for low volume, high quality, complex geometries, for industrial, aerospace, and medical applications such as prototyping, GE’s LEAP engine fuel nozzle and 3D printed implants. This session will focus on the development of application areas for ceramic additive manufacturing and will discuss the following issues:
- Identifying potential application areas for additive manufacturing: how to find the part that is suitable for this manufacturing process? How to design a part for this forming technology?
- Developing standards and non-destructing testing methods for additive manufactured parts: looking at developments in metal printed parts to see how this might transfer to the ceramic market in a few years’ time.
- Reviewing (new) application areas
Speakers include:
Dr Johannes Homa PhD,, CEO, Lithoz GmbH
Thomas Henriksen, President, CeramCo Inc
Christophe Chaput, CEO, 3D Ceram
Dr Joseph Cesarano III, President & Founder, Robocasting Enterprises LLC
Ceramics Expo 2017
12.45pm Reviewing Ceramics Additive Manufacturing Challenges to Promote Industry Adoption
Currently, a number of forming technologies for ceramic materials exist in the market, such as lithography based ceramic manufacturing (LCM), binder jetting, and selective laser sintering (SLS), but further steps need to be taken in order for additive manufacturing to become more widely adopted in the production of ceramic components. For example, raw materials need to be more evolved to support this technology as particle size distribution might prove complicated to control in this new forming process. New crushing processes are needed to develop materials that have a regular shape for repeatable consistency. In addition, post-processing technologies will need to be developed. This session will bring together representatives from ceramic additive manufacturing technology providers to discuss key issues to support this manufacturing method:
- Evaluating advances in slurry, resins, and powders for additive manufacturing.
- Post-processing issues: shrinkage, surface finishing for complex geometric shapes, debinding.
Speakers include:
Tracy Albers PhD, President & CTO, Rapid Prototype and Manufacturing LLC
Rick Lucas, Chief Technology Officer, The ExOne Company
Holly Shulman PhD, President, Materials Scientist, Ceralink Inc
Dror Danai, CBO, XJET Ltd
Register for your free pass here.
