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aser systems continue to demonstrate their ability to improve their quality and value in manufacturing. Tis issue illustrates the necessity of good safety
practices that underpin the technology. Additive manufacturing and 3D printing
applications continue to evolve and grow, now extending from macro features to micro- and nano-sized features. Applications in the energy sector
are wide ranging and valuable, especially world. A
dditive manufacturing has been creating buzz for some years, and is now on the threshold of becoming mainstream. According to a Pricewaterhouse Coopers
survey of more than 100 manufacturing companies’ in 2014, 11 per cent had already moved to volume production of 3D printed parts or products. With interest only increasing based on maturing technologies and processes, there has never been a better time to learn the latest about laser additive manufacturing, meet and network with experts, and benchmark laser additive manufacturing against other technologies – and no better place than LIA’s fast-approaching Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) workshop. Te two-day event, held on 2 to 3 March in
Orlando, FL, will focus on the question ‘why lasers?’ in the burgeoning field of additive manufacturing. Trough its keynotes, sessions, exhibits and networking opportunities, the workshop will answer that question and many more. For people involved in manufacturing of complex, lightweight, metal and other structural materials, LAM is a must-attend event. Paul Denney (Lincoln Electric) general chair
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World-changing lasers By Peter Baker, Executive Director, Laser Institute of America
in battery technology for renewable energy. In the solar cell field I just read a paper, in
our Journal of Laser Applications (available online at
http://scitation.aip.org/content/lia/ journal/jla/28/1/10.2351/1.4935196), which shows how laser surface processing of silicon can substantially increase the surface absorption of silicon, potentially leading to further increases in efficiency. Laser systems continue to improve our
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Network with the experts during
LIA’s upcoming LAM workshop By Michelle L. Stock
of this year’s LAM, along with his co-chairs Ingomar Kelbassa (Fraunhofer ILT) and Jim Sears (GE Global Research Center) have designed the programme to look at how people are using additive manufacturing, and where, when and why lasers are the best solution when compared to other technologies. Denney commented: ‘We are hoping this year’s workshop will help attendees better understand the pros and cons of laser-based additive manufacturing over other technologies. Hopefully it will also provide direction to those looking to improve on the status of laser additive manufacturing and what technologies need to be developed and/or improved upon.’ Users from all industries that
require structural materials, such as oil and gas, aerospace, agriculture, automotive, defence, marine, medical device, transportation, power generation, construction, and tool and die, can benefit from the knowledge gained by attending LAM. Whether focused on relatively small parts – like medical implants and
special lightweight brackets for planes – or on much larger parts either being made directly or having their surfaces modified, the programme will provide an overview on the different options that are out there today to create formed parts, and why you would choose each. Tis year’s workshop kicks off with a keynote
this year’s workshop will help attendees better understand the pros and cons of laser- based additive manufacturing
We are hoping
presentation by Professor Sudarsanam Suresh Babu of Te University of Tennessee at Knoxville, presenting ‘Recent advances in metal additive manufacturing at a manufacturing demonstration facility: role of in-situ process monitoring, computational modelling, and advanced characterisation’. Following the keynote, speakers
from companies that are involved in alternative technologies to laser additive manufacturing will present, including companies using gas metal arc welding (GMAW),
ultrasonic welding and electron beams. With that background in mind, the programme will turn to how companies select the ‘best’ additive manufacturing process(es). Te programme will
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