Additive Manufacturing in Land Vehicle Industry | Biomedgrid

Additive manufacturing has been gaining more importance in the recent years for diverse applications due to its various advantages like mass customization, enabling very complex geometries, weight reduction, lead time and cost advantage for small volume production. Additive manufacturing has become an almost mature technology group in biomedical applications for different materials. However, aerospace and defense industries are still investigating its feasibility for a wide range of applications due to strict and demanding requirements. The land vehicle industry demands mainly small series and cost efficient production of parts to be used in arduous conditions in battlefield. Even more importantly, the short lead time and the possibility to produce at the battle field makes the additive technologies significant for the land vehicle industry. This paper will focus on the road mapping and prioritization of additive technologies for land vehicles taking the boundary conditions and requirements of the land vehicle industry into account and will depict some of the results of the action items driven from additive technology roadmap.