Dyndrite Joins NMIS to Advance 3D Metal Manufacturing Research

Dyndrite has joined the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) to further research on 3D metal printer manufacturing. NMIS membership provides access to world-leading expertise, technical capability and opportunities to innovate together on the global stage.

NMIS plans to use Dyndrite in developing build recipes and shareable knowledge in materials process development across all major laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) OEM file formats. Dyndrite is the provider of a GPU-accelerated computation engine used to create next-generation digital manufacturing hardware and software.

The company will collaborate with researchers from the NMIS Digital Factory which is focused on developing LPBF process materials knowledge across multiple industries. The group will work on a variety of R&D projects, from assessing fatigue strength and corrosion resistance for biomedical applications, to finding the best materials properties for parts used within the energy sector.

NMIS members include Infor, Baker Hughes, Fanuc, ATS Global, Sandvik, Skyreal, Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies, Beckhoff, Nikken and Renishaw. Dyndrite joins this fast-growing roster of innovators looking to collaborate on complex additive manufacturing (AM) problems, particularly around expanding available materials and production automation.

“We are delighted to join forces with NMIS and members to develop AM metals materials and explore production automation of LPBF using repeatable build recipes,” says Stephen Anderson, Dyndrite’s head of strategic relationships. “By removing variation in the print process, we showcase how additive manufacturing scales to allow users to make more parts with greater consistency at a lower price. This is the key to unlocking new markets in 3D metal printing. This effort will drive metal AM into a mainstream production process and enable simpler traceability from powder to part.”

Dyndrite’s first end-user AM application is the Dyndrite Materials and Process Development for LPBF. This GPU-based 3D application (designed for engineers and scientists) simplifies and brings automation to the development of metal alloys and parts for laser-based 3D metal printing. It takes maximum advantage of Dyndrite’s Accelerated Computation Engine (ACE), including the ability to query 3D geometry in order to detect and optimize for difficult to print features such as domes, cantilevers and thin walls.

Dyndrite’s LPBF application increases print throughput, speeds development and lowers part costs. Users can also create and share build recipes (Python) that provide all the information required to recreate a build and drive the manufacturing process. Dyndrite’s LPBF application outputs to leading 3D metal printers, including Aconity3D, EOS, Renishaw, SLM and others.

“We’re excited to welcome Dyndrite as our newest NMIS member, where they will be working with our additive team,” says Stephen Fitzpatrick, NMIS Digital Factory director. “Dyndrite is a leading provider of 3D software for engineering and manufacturing applications. Our deployment will immediately help develop and grow our AM materials capabilities. Over the next year, we aim to collaborate on research projects that showcase novel additive use cases within process qualification and calibration and automated production lines. We look forward to getting started.”

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