Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine (LASIMM)

2019: The description of installation for hybrid production

On February 28, 2019 the Autodesk company provided the installation developed together with 9 international organizations for hybrid production LASIMM (Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine) which using 3D - printing will be able to produce metal elements and building constructions to 6 meters in height, 2 meters in the diameter and up to 2000 kg. Together with Autodesk five companies, two universities and two research institutes from Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Spain, Germany and Portugal worked on the project. Installation is on the industrial platform Loxin in Pamplona, Spain.

Within tests a system should make demonstration samples – big console frame constructions, panels of airplanes and a part of wind turbines. They were designed as much as possible to involve possibilities of LASIMM in additive manufacturing, the machining cold to processing, measurements and control. According to the developer, these technologies propose an optimal solution for hybrid production of large structural elements and provide the predicted cost reduction and time for 20% and also approximate performance improvement for 15% at large-scale additive manufacturing. According to developers, the solution LASIMM will help with reduction of a working space, localization of working conditions, reduction of supply chains, etc.

LASIMM has the modular structure consisting of industrial robotic hands for implementation of additive manufacturing by aluminum and steel and also the specialized milling robot for removal of excess material. It will allow the whole industries to pass from creation of the standardized components to individual solutions, consider in Autodesk. Among these industries there are an aerospace, renewable power, transport, construction and many others.

As the leading software developer within the project of Autodesk expands borders of production of products, passing from the principle of the "one equipment-one process" CAM system to the "hybrid equipment-several processes" system and management of such installations which integrate several technologies for production of a final component. This approach plays a key role in case of preparation of hybrid production and need of creation of managing programs for such machines, emphasized in Autodesk.

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