HiETA Technologies
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Additively Manufactured Heat Exchanger
HiETA Technologies will begin using Simufact Engineering’s Additive simulation software to enhance its selective laser melting processes.
The company is a product designer and manufacturer, and owns five Renishaw Selective Laser Melting (SLM) systems which it uses to deliver parts to the automotive, motorsport, aerospace, defence and energy industries. While these sectors welcome additively manufactured parts, there remain concerns around quality assurance, and so simulation software packages are becoming more and more commonplace.
HiETA has manufactured such parts as the Annular Radial Flow Recuperator for a Microgas Turbine System in collaboration with Delta Motorsports – a TCT Magazine cover star in early 2017. It boasts expertise in thermal management and light weighting, and serves its customers through every step of the product lifecycle, from design through to testing of the final part. Wanting to give a further boost to that service, it has invested in Simufact Additive.
Simufact Additive offers scalable process simulation, enabling the user to design and manufacture parts as desired the first time around. It simulates all of the key AM process steps, including printing the part, heat treatment, removing the part from the build plate and supports from the part, as well as heat and pressure combined processes (HIP).
“Simufact brings value to our design and products by providing unique insight and helping to reduce the number of design iterations, thus increasing efficiency,” commented Keith Parker, Senior Design Engineer of HiETA Technologies. “Its ease of use along with excellent customer service was a major reason to purchase.”
