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How Alstom 3D Prints High-Speed Train Parts in Resin

March 16, 2023 |

Maintaining that equipment for their customers is no small task and when equipment fails, customers need replacements as quickly as possible. Enter their newest ultrafast 3D printers from Nexa3D.

Alstom is one of the largest rail manufacturers in the world. With rail cars and locomotives on all six inhabited continents (no trains in Antarctica yet), they have a lot of rolling stock.

Join Lorenzo Gasparoni, a 3D printing and 3D scanning product leader at Alstom, as he discusses the major leaps in additive manufacturing capabilities for quick turnaround replacement parts for aging rail cars—their newest 3D printer can produce 30 replacement footrests in just 10 hours.

Agenda: 

  • How Alstom finds 3D printed part opportunities
  • Breaking down the benefits of 3D printed production parts
  • Alstom's workflow for high-speed 3D printing
Presenter 1

Presenter 1:

Lorenzo Gasparoni

3D Printing and Scanning Leader, Alstom

Lorenzo Gasparoni is a schematics and apparatus manager in Alstom's manufacturing and service center located in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, but his passion project for the past few years has been as 3D printing and 3D scanning leader. With a background in aerospace engineering, Gasparoni has over a decade of experience in the engineering of complex rail and aircraft systems.

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