Scale-up of additive manufacturing with materials manipulation processing for higher performance and reducing waste in manufacturing and repair
Acronym: Scamper
Funding body: Innovate UK
Status: Completed
The aerospace sector wastes 90% of material when manufacturing a part. A solution to this is the use of additive manufacturing via laser metal deposition, an exciting new manufacturing technique, which significantly reduces material waste, and enables direct manufacture of complex components in an expanded range of metallic alloys.
Objective - to reduce material waste for production and repair applications in the aerospace sector using AM techniques. SCAMPER aims to improve LMD technology in terms of suitable materials, production rate and size of components for manufacture and repair applications.