Rapid Ready Technology Making digital designs physical

The Additive Manufacturing Center at the BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre in Munich supplies roughly 140,000 prototype parts each year to the company’s different divisions.

PostProcess has combined information captured in the digital thread during the design and printing stages with the necessary tasks of AM part support-removal and final surface-finishing, improving the entire process.

The deal will give Premium Aerotec access to other customers outside of its parent company, Airbus, which is expected to eventually sell the supplier.

The technology could be used to print temporary sensors on the bodies of soldiers, for example, to detect chemical or biological weapons. Printed solar cells could also be used to charge electronics.

GM leveraged Autodesk’s cloud computing and AI-based algorithms, using a generative design approach to create the part.