Additive manufacturing use cases for 3D Printing

AMable Innovative Product Ideas

Experiments that challenge people and additive manufacturing technologies

AMAC

The Individual Accordion

A dutch team has set the challenge to print accordions with individual size for young and individual musicians behind the instrument.

BEACTIVE

Medical Assistive Devices

A team from Greece and Italy has teamed up to create individual, antimicrobial and super-hydrophobic medical support devices.

CLIMATE

Conformal Cooling Inserts

Partners from Austria and Italy have teamed up to create conformal cooling inserts by a new process called lithographical metal AM.

ENCLOSENS

Outdoor Sensor Enclosures

Expert designers and users from Spain have teamed up to create cheap and individual but rugged sensor enclosures for challenging conditions.

IHEMAM

Rugged Flying Coolers

A French / Spanish team takes the challenge to create light and small heat exchangers that sustain vibrations and shocks during the flight.

SASSHPPE

Featherlight Head Protection

A team from Spain aims to create head protection devices with enhanced safety while being lighter and providing an individual fit.

WAAMTOP

Titanium Direct Parts

A group from the Netherlands aims to reduce waste by making parts directly from the titanium wire to the final shape of their product.

VISEAM

Additive Vibration Sensor Cases

Development of additively manufactured casings for vibration sensors with individual shape and fixing.

NAMAC

New Hydraulic Hand Tools

Portable electrohydraulic tools for fast and user friendly field operation and repair.

FABTHEP

Thermal Fabric Printing

3D printing of PEEK as a toughening mechanism for CFRP composites.

PROSAD3D

Individual Prothesis Adapters

Reinventing prothesis adapters for minimum weight, maximum performance and ideal comfort with custom design.

MUPMED

Multi Effect Dryer

Eco friendly industrial dryer with multi effect vaporisation mechanism through 3D printing.

TADSOLE

The Adjustable Sole

Soles for sports, work and leisure shoes that provide adjustable stiffness.

NIMAS

Non-invasive Aquaculture Monitoring

Submersible camera housing for non-invasive monitoring of aquaculture environments.

STIRPSH

Personalised Sports Helmets

Safety test and industrialization requirements for personalized sport helmets and personal protective equipment.

NOPTIMA

Optimised Mould Production

Precision printing of plastics parts through 3D cooling facilitated injection moulding tools.

LARGERAIL

Complex Rail Airducts

Construction of large and complex 3D geometry for rail vehicles build with certified additive manufacturing materials.

AMable Use Cases

We have collected a few cases here that consider to be typical for applications of additive manufacturing. They show the three key success factors in additve manufacturing: functional integration, manufacturability and cost-return balance. Read on ...