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Discover Product Innovation Through Lightweighting with Additive Manufacturing

Lightweighting is a design methodology that allows engineers to redesign parts to reduce a part's weight while maintaining (and sometimes improving) the part's performance.

As more companies introduce Additive Manufacturing into their workflow, opportunities arise to reduce production costs and improve part performance:

  • Parts manufactured from expensive chemical or heat-resistant powders benefit from lower material and part production cost
  • Parts intended for space, air or road travel, lighter weight parts lead to an increase in fuel economy which can reduce costs significantly over the lifetime of the part
  • Lightweighting robot end effectors can reduce the cost of running these machines in a production environment and possibly reduce the size of the required robot arm

In this insightful webinar, you'll gain a clear understanding of how lightweighting innovations are achieved using advanced digital engineering and additive manufacturing.

Through real-world examples, we'll showcase how these methodologies can impact production costs and part performance across key industries.

Details:

  • Date: Thursday, 13th of February
  • Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Key Topics Covered:

  • How Additive Manufacturing has transformed what can be achieved through lightweighting
  • Details of advanced lightweighting techniques such as part amalgamation and topological optimisation
  • Industry case studies that demonstrate how these techniques directly affected the cost and performance of their lightweighted parts.

This webinar is tailored for:

  • Key decision-makers in manufacturing and engineering companies.

  • R&D Managers looking to optimise product development.

  • Engineers interested in lightweighting strategies using AM.

If you are working in an industry where part weight is a critical factor then this webinar is a must-see.

Register for Webinar

Speakers:
Jay Rossiter, Additive Manufacturing Researcher
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Jay Rossiter is a Researcher in Additive Manufacturing at IMR. He holds a PhD in Design for Additive Manufacturing and specialises in biomedical applications of Additive Manufacturing. He has specialist knowledge in Lattice design and Algorithmic Modelling and is exploring applications for these techniques in Irish industry.

Jay has a particular interest in rehabilitative devices and holds an M.Sc. in Sports Biomechanics.

Anthony O'Riordan, Managing Director at Kaizen PLM
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Anthony is the MD of Kaizen PLM, a company which supports its customers in the deployment of the latest CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM and IIOT tools from Siemens. Kaizen is the only SMART expert approved partner in the UK and Ireland for additive manufacturing and Virtual Commissioning software deployments.

Anthony is a mechanical design engineer who is focused on learning and implementing the latest industry software and additive manufacturing tools. 

Rodrigo Fraga, Presales Consultant at Siemens Digital Industries Software
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Rodrigo is a Mechanical Engineer with 20 years of experience in product engineering and CAE within the automotive industry.

For the last 10 years Rodrigo has specialised in Additive Manufacturing and CAE solutions as a technical solutions consultant at Siemens, working on industries most challenging design and analysis applications for leading customers across all sectors