Melt Pool Monitoring: Online process monitoring minimizes risks and reduces costs at the customers
Munich/Stuttgart, August 5, 2014 – With the Melt Pool Monitoring concept, EOS, the technology and market leader for design-driven solutions in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM), is developing a high-performance online monitoring solution in cooperation with plasmo Industrietechnik, a global high-tech supplier of automated quality assurance systems. This process monitoring represents decisive added value in terms of risk management and cost reduction for customers.
Left to right: Dr. Thomas Gruenberger, Technical Director (CTO) at plasmo Industrietechnik and Dr. Tobias Abeln, Technical Director (CTO) at EOS. (Courtesy EOS)
At the end of 2013, the two companies confirmed their collaboration in the form of a cooperation contract. The aim of this close cooperation is to advance development of the online process monitoring for Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLSTM).
Dr. Tobias Abeln, Technical Director (CTO) at EOS, emphasizes: “We have been working successfully with plasmo for some time now. With their know-how they are accompanying us as an expert partner in the field of manufacturing and process monitoring on our road towards additive series manufacturing. The key to successful process monitoring is the intelligence of the system. Many are able to record data. Understanding the data correctly and evaluating it appropriately brings the decisive added value. Our goal is to set new benchmarks in this field and we are very pleased to have found the optimum partner for this in plasmo.”
Dr. Adrian Keppler, Sales and Marketing Director (CMO) at EOS, adds, “A complete quality assurance chain makes a decisive contribution to boosting trust in a new technology. The decisive factors for our customers on the road towards series manufacturing are reproducible top-quality parts at the lowest costs per part possible. We already offer comprehensive quality assurance processes for our systems upstream and downstream of the manufacturing process. With modular online process monitoring we are extending this quality assurance by a further module and ensuring an even greater transparency during our quite complex building process. At the same time we are making a tool available to our customers that they can use to build up their own quality assurance concept.”
Dr. Thomas Grünberger, Technical Director (CTO) at plasmo says: “We can look back on 14 years of experience in the field of quality control of laser machining processes in the automotive, aerospace and metalworking industry. Process know-how from EOS coupled with our expertise in the field of optical quality control systems results in solutions that fulfil the requirements of Additive Manufacturing perfectly. Our monitoring system, fastprocessobserver, used in connection with the underlying powerful algorithms, is eminently suited for the very high process dynamics of Additive Manufacturing.”
About plasmo Industrietechnik GmbH
plasmo is a leading global high-tech supplier of automated quality assurance systems for the manufacturing industry. The company was founded in 2003 and has its headquarters in Vienna as well as branches in Germany and USA and a network of international sales partners. The expertise available from plasmo ranges from control of welding processes, monitoring weld seams, geometric forms and surfaces, laser power measurement through tailor-made solutions in the field of machine vision to analysis software. A wide range of services including comprehensive engineering services round off the company’s portfolio. Thanks to its turn-key solutions for customer-specific applications, plasmo has created a large customer base of international top companies from different industries. Steel companies such as Thyssen, Salzgitter, Tokyu Steel and Posco rely on top-class quality assurance systems from plasmo just like the vehicle manufacturers Audi, Daimler, Opel, PSA, Suzuki, Volvo, Volkswagen etc. Find out more at http://www.plasmo.eu/.
About EOS
Founded in 1989, EOS is the technology and market leader for design-driven, integrated e-Manufacturing solutions for Additive Manufacturing (AM), an industrial 3D printing process. EOS offers a modular solution portfolio including systems, software, materials as well as services including specific application consulting. As an industrial manufacturing process it allows the fast and flexible production of high-end parts based on 3D CAD data at a repeatable industry level of quality. As a disruptive technology it paves the way for a paradigm shift in product design and manufacturing. It accelerates product development, offers freedom of design, optimizes part structures, and enables lattice structures as well as functional integration. As such, it creates significant competitive advantages for its customers. For more information please visit our website under http://www.eos.info/en.
Contacts:
EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
Claudia Jordan
Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +49 89 89 33 6-2134
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plasmo Industrietechnik GmbH
Tina Bruno
Marketing
Phone: +49 711 490 66 – 307
E-mail: tina.bruno@plasmo.eu
EOS of North America, Inc.
Jessica Nehro
Field Marketing Manager
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E-mail: jessica.nehro@eos-na.com
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