Alexandre Couto
Published on 04/01/2022at 2:00 p.m.
Additive manufacturing specialists offer manufacturers modular micro-factories to support their demand for flexibility and allow them connected and distributed production, as close as possible to uses.
More flexible production, carried out as close as possible to the place of use. This grail of additive manufacturing, hoped for since the arrival of this technology in production, is getting closer and closer to concrete applications. It is now driven by two concepts that could reshape the industrial landscape: micro-factories and distributed production.
With the increasing digitization of factories, manufacturers want to implement set up small production units connected and adapted to local needs. These islands of machines would be driven by factory data, stored in the cloud, ensuring the repeatability of the process. This concept has taken its mark in the offer of machine manufacturers and software developers dedicated to additive manufacturing.
“The idea of a micro-factory, still exotic a few years ago, has taken hold, explains Jean-Daniel Penot, head of the research and innovation department at the Campus for higher education and vocational training (Cesi) and vice-president of the France Additive association. Atoday, the main processes having passed the milestone of industrialization, such as fusion laser, cold spray (cold spraying), binder jetting (binder jetting) or even the arc-wire process (Waam), are developed in micro-factories to facilitate the deployment of production units as close as possible to needs .
Handddle’s Smart Farm
The micro-factory offers the industrialist an environment encompassing many stages of production. Often placed in containers to facilitate their transport, these devices allow the installation of various sensors for better monitoring of production.
The start-up Handddle presented the second prototype of its Smart Farm at Formnext 2021, which took place from November 16 to 19. This concept brings together in a compact environment the printing unit, material management and a post-processing system. It rests on
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