IMTS 2018 Conference: Revolutionizing Production of High Performance, Hybrid Composite Structures with Stratasys Additive Manufacturing

Plan to attend The IMTS 2018 Conferences to gain deeper insights into new manufacturing technologies and ideas!

About the topic
Additive Manufacturing (AM) continues to immediately impact fabrication of composite structures. For years, industry leaders have leveraged Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology for high temperature mold tooling to significantly reduce lead times and cut costs.

With the introduction of the first FDM composite material, Stratasys accelerated printed part performance to an even higher level - opening up application spaces in tooling and structural parts. However, resulting performance was still somewhat limited by the planar layer-by-layer nature of the build approach.

This session will explore how Stratasys has now partnered with Siemens to deliver the future of AM for composites, bringing together the design freedom enabled by FDM, the performance of composite material systems, and the multi-axis motion control of industrial robotics - coupled with intelligent automation. The complex structures enabled by this approach cannot be easily produced by conventional methods, at least not without highly complex tooling approaches that are unlikely to be practical.

The result is a market game-changer -  a new generation of potential lightweight, hybrid composite structures with unprecedented degrees of geometric complexity, part consolidation, and design optimization realized through a powerful, fully contained, end-to-end digital workflow.

Registration is now open so check out the IMTS 2018 website for more information.

Tim Schniepp leads the composite tooling program for the Vertical Solutions Business Unit within Stratasys. Prior to joining Stratasys in 2014, Schniepp was a materials and process engineering leader at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, GE Aviation, and Lockheed Martin. He has significant hands-on experience in composites fabrication and specifically with FDM for production of composite tooling.