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  • European technology Sub-platform in Additive manufacturing: be aware of the latest advances on AM and 3D printing technologies and network with key stakeholders.
  • European technology Sub-platform in Additive manufacturing: be aware of the latest advances on AM and 3D printing technologies and network with key stakeholders.
  • European technology Sub-platform in Additive manufacturing: be aware of the latest advances on AM and 3D printing technologies and network with key stakeholders.

What is the AM-platform?

The AM-platform is a free of charge virtual central European area for all subject related to Additive Manufacturing (hereafter named AM)

The objective of the AM-platform is to contribute to a coherent strategy, understanding, development, dissemination and exploitation of AM.

AM is fragmented. Lots of organizations are working or doing research in this area but there is no coherent strategy and several interpret the subject differently. There is no central organization or place for peoples to for instance ask questions, to start a discussion, to find expertise, or to up- or download an interesting paper or article.

This platform helps to achieve the Lisbon & Gothenburg objectives as defined by the EC (to become the most dynamic and most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010 and achieving sustainability by 2030).

The AM-platform is active since 2007 (formerly as the RM-platform)

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Dirk Godlinski

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  Fraunhofer IFAM

Dirk Godlinski studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University Clausthal (Germany) and achieved 2002 his PhD in Production Engineering at the University Bremen in the field of ceramics processing.

Dirk is now working since 5 years as project manager with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials Research IFAM (Bremen), in the department Functional Structures. He is coordinating European, national, and industrial funded inter-disciplinary projects using the technology platform "Functional Printing" which is based on Nanopowder Technologies, Printing Processes, Rapid Manufacturing, and Materials Development. Most of the work is related to materials and process development for the powder based 3D-Printing process; some examples are tool steels, CoCrMo-alloy, Ti, or bio-resorbable ceramic.

Beyond this "classical" R&D in Rapid Manufacturing of parts with 3D-Printing or Laser Sintering, his special focus today is to qualify in general the established digital and maskless printing technologies, like ink-jet, for printing of functional structures using any functional material - metal, ceramic, polymer, or biological - instead of coloured ink. Therefore Dirk is leading since 2005 the Fraunhofer IFAM application centre "Functional Printing", which covers all aspects from the formulation of printable suspensions, via the evaluation of the most applicable printing process up to the thermal treatment and characterisation of the final printed structure.