The 6th RM Platform stakeholders meeting was held June 2nd 2009 in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the European Commission. Over  58  attendees from all over Europe took the opportunity to discuss about the RM platform,  new FP7 initiatives and new Project initiatives (Project Brokerage).

Andrea Gentili presented the latest news on the Factory of the Future and PPP's (Public Private Projects)

Claude Rieg went  into more detail on RM specific topics.

There have been several presentations of new project initiatives  as well as an update of  three running RM projects  (Directspare, Compolight and Impala) .

The next meeting, the 7th RM Platform Stakeholders meeting, will be organized during VR@p in Leiria Portugal on invitation by Prof Bartolo and is planned  in the period of October 6-10  2009 , more details to follow soon.

All presentations can be downloaded here (for registered users only).

The RM Platform Management Board

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ASTM International Meeting in Philadelphia 13.-14.01.2009

The American Society for Materials and Testing (ASTM) has set up the Technical Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies with the scope to promote knowledge, stimulate research and implement technology through the development of international standards.

About 60 people attended the meeting in Philadelphia, which were mainly from the US. From Europe Siemens, EOS, Arcam, BMW, Materialise and Inspire were present.The Committee, with a current membership of approximately 100, has 5 technical subcommittees: Test Methods, Processes, Materials, Design and Terminology. Everybody is welcome to give input to the standardization process, but only participating members of the ASTM (75 $ per year) are allowed to vote in upcoming decisions.

The RM Platform Europe is very interested in the coming up standards and encourages everybody with interest to join the effort. Please check http://www.astm.org/COMMIT/COMMITTEE/F42.htm

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The 5th RM Platform stakeholders meeting was held September 16th 2008 in Ptuj, Slovenia, kindly organised by the Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana. Over 95 attendees from all over Europe took the opportunity to discuss about the RM platform, EUREKA and ERA-NET and JTI.

Frits Feenstra will be the new person from TNO coordinating the RM platform, (replacing Anton Gerrits who gets a new job at TNO). He mentioned that the RM platform will incorporate progress and achievements from the four projects being funded by the EU (Directspare, Compolight, Stepup and Impala) in next meetings. Two presentations were given to still our need for “talking technology”: Thierry Dormal from Sirris presented latest developments in metals RM followed by Phil Reeves (Econolyst) presentation on the low carbon footprint of RM. Thanks for both vivid and most relevant presentations!

The day was closed by a round table discussion addressing a.o. the input from local industry in the RM Platform, the possible formation of three RM application cluster groups (i.e. commodities, medical and industrial parts) within the platform and some other issues. The next meeting, the 6th RM Platform Stakeholders meeting, will be organized by the European Commission and is planned for June 2nd in Brussels, more details to follow soon.

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The TCT has added a new regular column about the activities of the RM Platform. 

This column can be read here, turn to page 8/9 (click the bottom corners of the pages just a you would with a paper edition)