Additive Flow’s Engineering Software for Optimizing Metal Additive Manufacturing

Additive Flow’s production engineering software is designed to provide cost, time and quality efficiencies, enabling users achieve quality, consistency and repeatability in metal additive manufacturing (AM) applications.

The software’s capabilities include design, design optimization and workflow. The company says the software offers the ability to optimize build parameters within approved CAD geometries to dramatically reduce cost, while improving productivity, reliability and repeatability. 

The platform is said to allocate the optimum build parameters at every location within the final model to achieve the desired objectives of each particular case. It leverages simultaneous, multiscale optimization encompassing material, manufacturing and quality so AM can be deployed for cost-effective serial production.

“Additive Flow exists to address common, unresolved challenges experienced across the production workflow for AM applications,” says Alexander Pluke, Additive Flow CEO. “Our software operates after the CAD stage and hands over to CAM, handling siloed data to integrate and improve production processes for AM in record times with validated outcomes.” 

According to the company, many AM teams can be weighed down by excessive information and yet feel they lack data to make the best decisions. Additive Flow addresses this issue while also accelerating the workflow and improving production outcomes. Moreover, by working with world-class teams and facilities at the National Physics Laboratory and companies such as EOS, Autodesk and Airbus, Additive Flow has demonstrated its full capabilities in a variety of commercial projects.

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