Projects

What we are working on.

AGENT-3D is based on the processing of diverse individual projects. The strategy project forms the basis for project ideas. The goal is the systematic implementation of our roadmap. The basic projects form an important bridge function between strategy and technology projects. Below you will find an overview of all our ongoing and completed projects.

Basic Project

AGENT-3D_Basis

 

The basic project started in autumn 2015 is an important bridge between the ongoing strategic project AGENT-3D_Strategie and the technology projects. The detailed results of a stakeholder analysis gained in the strategic process are used to define socio-political, economic, business, technological and legal framework conditions and to reveal ways to positively influence these factors. AGENT-3D_Basis generates important basic findings with a focus on interdisciplinary application, to then be employed in the subsequent collaborative project. The five topics of AGENT-3D_Basis are:

• Impact of socio-economic factors on the development opportunities of additive manufacturing
• Copyright / patent law, product liability, competition law requirements
• New pathways of construction and design
• Process reliability, materials and quality management
• Interfaces and standardization

Measuring and testing center

 

The new measuring and testing center for Additive Manufacturing built in collaboration with the University of Technology Dresden, Fraunhofer IWS, IPK and IWU, guarantees continual growth in expertise in test and measurement engineering for additive manufactured components throughout the entire project lifetime of AGENT-3D. The requested tools will complement the existing measuring and testing tools. All consortium partners can make use of the innovative equipment and expertise. At the same time, the diversity of research issues will establish a wide-ranging fund of knowledge of inner and outer component characteristics. Even after the end of project funding, a competence center for the measuring and testing of additive manufactured products will have been set up for users from industry and research. The construction of this center secures permanent access to equipment and expertise. The described investments serve as a basis for future collaborative projects to tackle technological problems, which can then be solved together with all partners in secure environments using appropriate test equipment and comprehensive software. Clearly, dedicated software and test equipment are needed to achieve a better understanding of the processes, data and materials. Based on these, standard parameters will be determined for testing equipment and software in order to develop the data stream and industrially applicable routines for the various stages in the process chain (engineering, preparation, production and quality test) in future technology projects.

strategy project

AGENT_3D Strategie I + II (completed)


The overall goal of project AGENT-3D_Strategie II is to update the scientific, technological, organizational and economic roadmap created within the strategy project AGENT-3D_Strategie II. This ongoing strategy development is based on the original visionary target fields and their transformation into technologically feasible intermediate objectives. The aim is for the project to prepare a decision-making basis for strategy adaption. The extended board of directors (strategic council) will decide on this foundation in consultation with the scientific advisory board.

Innovation Management Project

Innovation management project

 

The overall goal of project AGENT-3D_Management is to coordinate and accompany the implementation of strategy undertaken by the innovative association AGENT-3D. In addition, services are provided to our members. The project is the follow-up to the first strategy phase, which was funded until June of 2015, and continues these initial activities. The project is closely linked to the AGENT-3D_Strategie II running in parallel, providing information from the technology project (research and development project) and the basic project to AGENT-3D-Strategie II in order to assist the strategic preparation of decisions. AGENT-3D_Management supports activities in the fields of research and development within the technology and basic projects by sharing results, cross-links and interfaces. The funded marketing of technological expertise will serve to disseminate innovative R&D results to the public and experts. The project forms the operational base of the overall project AGENT-3D. In addition to public funding, consortium members are required to provide some own funding (as members of AGENT-3D e.V.).

Technology Projects

3D osseo distrakt

Osseodistraction with 3D generated individual titanium systems

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AutoHeat

Autonomous development of individual miniature high-performance heat exchangers

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CastAutoGen

Development of a hybrid production process chain casting-generating for automotive applications

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CFDµSAT

Flow-optimized injectors for fuel-efficient space propulsion

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CoolGear

Development and implementation of an ultra-efficient and acoustically optimized lightweight gearing stage with internal cooling

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elf

Additive manufacturing technologies for the integration of electronic functionalities

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EXPERTEB

Expert system for the design and manufacture of endoprostheses using electron beam melting

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FAKE

Counterfeit-proof latent marking of additively manufactured components

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FLOW 4.0

Increasing the safety and efficiency of additive manufacturing processes through intelligent extraction technology

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FunGeoS

Functional geometric structures - design principles for additive-generative manufacturing

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HERTZ

High-frequency systems for wireless communication and radar systems with additive manufacturing

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HSI4AM

Hyperspectral imaging for quality control of powder materials for additive-generative manufacturing

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HybrAM

Hybrid production chain for the production of metal-ceramic composite components

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Hybrid+

Simulation-based qualification of hybrid manufactured components

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HymoOn

Mobile hybrid machine using additive and subtractive manufacturing

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IMProVe

Innovative materials, plants and processes by overcoming process limits in additive manufacturing

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Innoadd

Innovative technologies and strategies for AM of large components

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LasCer

Generative processing of ceramic fiber composite structures using laser technology

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MediSlice

Improvement of the industrial producibility and functionalisation of open-pored osteo-implants

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MikroDent

Filigree AM of metal-polymer abutments for the dental industry

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multiBeAM

Multimaterial processing by means of additive manufacturing

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OptikneBM

Design and AM of surface and structure-optimized knee implants

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ProAMM

Development of process chains for additive multi-material production

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ProRepForm

Process chains for the repair of moulds and tools by means of inline-monitored AM

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QualiPro

Quality management for safe and robust additive production

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ReproAM

Overcoming production limits of reproducibility and process speed for powder bed based steel melting processes

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SupErLaTiv

Simulation protected automatic support structure creation for laser based AM

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ToolPrint

Additive construction of tools from adapted wire materials by means of the arc process

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TopoGross

Additive-generative production of topology-optimized large components

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VeriPulMikro

Verification of the powder influence on component properties in the micro range

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