19 February 2015

Visiting Professor, Mark Bloomfield presented a paper and chaired a panel discussion at the Commercial Applications for Additive Manufacturing industry conference in Amsterdam.

Visiting Professor, Mark Bloomfield presented a paper and chaired a panel discussion at the Commercial Applications for Additive Manufacturing industry conference in Amsterdam.

The conference focused on overcoming the commercial and technical challenges of moving towards serial production and looking at amongst other things strategic planning to make additive manufacturing an integral part of a business model. Marks' presentation focuses on:

  • Investigating Whether Additive Manufacturing Can Ever Move Beyond Producing Low Volume, High Value Goods
  • Evaluating current production strategies using additive manufacturing; Are new strategies needed?
  • Assess the cost of equipment and materials; How can production costs be controlled?
  • Exploring new methods of boosting printing speed and increasing production capacity; Investing in large scale additive manufacturing production facilities

Other high profile speakers included Julian Gerau Technical Project and Design Advisor at Mykita, Scott Wood, Chief of Materials, Repair Technology at Rolls-Royce and Harry Kleijnen, Manager, Development & Engineering at Philips Healthcare