ICWAM 2022 8-9 June 2022 online

Eminent researchers and industrial experts renowned in the fields of welding, additive manufacturing and associated non-destructive testing are to give keynote and invited presentations during ICWAM 2022.
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Alain Bernard

Emeritus Professor | Ecole Centrale de Nantes | France Additive | l’Académie des Technologies | France
Additive Manufacturing: A vision for 2030

Additive manufacturing is evolving permanently and will constitute an additional solution to industrial needs in the future. In ten years, the integration of additive manufacturing technologies in the industrial value chains will be much more mature than today. Even if materials are the main key for success, many other aspects have to be visited and matured, from design to post-process. One of the main expectations is productivity and robustness. This is essential to really switch to current industrial practice according to international standardisation and to many specific requirements in different application fields. This presentation will introduce a vision about the future of additive manufacturing evolution and maturity in 2030, mostly based on the current knowledge, on the actual progresses and on the ongoing research and experiments. Industrialization of additive manufacturing is already a reality in many fields but this will be much more effective in ten years from now.

Uwe Reisgen

Professor Dr.-Ing. | RWTH Aachen University | Allemagne
Digitalization in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing – Concept Transfer from joint welding to Additive Manufacturing

Uwe Reisgen, Rahul Sharma, Samuel Mann, Lukas Oster

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing is a highly promising process for small series production of large-scale metal components. The industrial application of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing still faces fundamental challenges, as generalized concepts for embedding the process into the digital manufacturing chain are missing. Within this contribution an overview on the current state of the art of connected, digitalized welding production is given, as well as an outlook on the transfer from existing concepts for industrial joint welding to Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing. A continuous, networked welding production ultimately makes it possible to realize the core elements of Industrie 4.0. These are, on the one hand, vertical integration in the enterprise architecture, which enables the continuity of data from welding production to the company’s management systems, and, on the other hand, horizontal integration, in which upstream and downstream production processes and/or partners from the company’s value chain can be included.

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