Additively manufactured components, although extensively customizable, are often limited in functionality. Multi-functionality, by definition, requires the integration of active sub-components in order to deliver additional functional capabilities, such as electronic, electro-mechanical, optical, electromagnetic, chemical and thermal. Here is the thing, the production of such parts does not happen every day because the manufacturing process raises several questions at the design, materials and fabrication levels, but also on the effective integration of such parts in a structure. This panel aims to discuss these questions and shed light on the do's and don'ts manufacturers should keep in mind at each stage of the manufacturing process.

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About the Speakers

1621418682-6f759ab14eada26b Dr. Elena Lopez
Division Manager Additive Manufacturing at Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS)

Dr. Elena Lopez studied chemical engineering at the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. She finished her PhD thesis about the topic of plasmachemical etching of silicon solar wafers at the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany. After focusing on CVD technologies, she moved to Printing and Additive Manufacturing technologies in 2014. She is Head of Department for Additive Manufacturing at Fraunhofer IWS. Furthermore she leads a big AM consortium named Agent-3D with more than 100 companies involved.

1621418868-ff22c5f78446ce3e Alexander Pluke
co-founder and CEO of Additive Flow

Alexander Pluke is the co-founder and CEO of Additive Flow, a company that is on a mission to intelligently progress the capabilities of design and optimisation for additive manufacturing and beyond.

1621369831-cc99c78f05f593bb Kety Sindze
Managing Editor at 3D ADEPT Media


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