64th Technical Conference & Equipment Exposition
AGENDA
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2017
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. REGISTRATION 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. WELCOME RECEPTION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2017
8:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. WELCOME INTRODUCTION 8:10 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.
2017 Casting Contest, Innovator of the Year, Hall of Honor and Honorary Member Awards Tim Sullivan, Esq. Hitchiner Manufacturing, ICI Director, Awards Committee Chairman 8:40 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
2017 INTERN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Russ Rosmait, Ph.D., Pittsburg State University, ICI Academic Advisor
9:10 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Planning Is Important But Improvising is Essential Avish Parashar
10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break sponsored by Paramelt 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
How will 3D Metal Printing Impact Investment Casting? Tom Mueller, Mueller Additive Manufacturing Solutions In the past few years, the number of manufacturers of metal additive manufacturing systems has ballooned from less than ten to more than thirty and new ones seem to appear every month. GE invested more than a billion dollars in the technology and are touting metal printing as a primary focus in manufacturing their aircraft engines. Some have forecast that metal printing will become the dominant method of creating metal parts. What effect will metal printing have on the investment casting industry? This analysis looks at the cost and speed of metal printing relative to investment casting and identifies types of parts and volume ranges where metal printing may have an advantage over investment casting, both now, and in the future when the speed of metal printers has increased and the cost of printed metal has come down. Also investigated is the use of printed investment casting patterns as a lower cost alternative to printed metal parts.
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10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Advancing Sculpture Rob Arps, Eyal Chernichovsky, Form 3D Foundry What is the impact of 3D printing technology on the venerable art of metal sculpture using the lost-wax method? Presented by Rob Arps, CEO of Form 3D Foundry in Portland, OR, this paper will elucidate the process and advantages of using 3D prints as positive molds to create panels for investment casting. Form 3D Foundry (once called Additive Workshop) is a full-service sculpture studio and 3D printing bureau in Portland, Oregon that embraces the use of technology while remaining grounded in traditional artistic principles. Working together with a diverse roster of clients in the arts, entertainment, corporate, academic, and civic spheres, they are leading the way in a hybrid process that allows a bronze monument to be created from a napkin sketch. Dramatically reducing both time and cost of creating metal sculpture without compromising quality or the artist’s vision, additive manufacturing is positively advancing sculpture.
11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 3D Printed Ceramic Cores and Shells for Investment Casting Through Large Area Maskless Photopolymerization (LAMP) Technology Dr. Suman Das, DDM Systems LAMP is a breakthrough additive manufacturing technology enabling the 3D printing of ceramic cores and shells for investment casting. Originally developed for the direct digital manufacturing of turbine airfoils, the technology is applicable across all of investment casting. In LAMP, thin layers of a ceramic-loaded photocurable resin are sequentially cured using high resolution images in ultraviolet light using a scanning projection device. Macroscale green parts can be built with microscale features and excellent surface finish. Thermal post-processing involves binder burnout and sintering to achieve the final ceramic parts ready for casting. LAMP eliminates up to 7 of 12 process steps in investment casting, thereby dramatically reducing the cost and lead time for new castings. LAMP also enables advanced designs that are prohibitively expensive or impossible to make through traditional tooling. This presentation will cover the state-of-the-art of LAMP technology and an outlook towards future developments.
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