In a pioneering research project, roeren is showing how the series production of the future can be designed innovatively and sustainably. Under the project name AdDEDValue, roeren is working together with other members of a consortium consisting of companies and research institutions to advance and establish additive manufacturing with metal as an economically viable solution for industrial series production.
The research project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) is now coming to an end after a total of three years. Together with its partners – including Siemens AG, the Technical University of Munich, AGCO GmbH and the Volkswagen Group – roeren worked intensively to develop new standards for the manufacturing industry. A particular highlight of the overall project: the development of a software tool, driven forward at roeren, which will help companies to make smart and sustainable decisions when investing in new production technologies in the future. This prototype, designed in Landshut, enables an individual and scalable evaluation of a wide range of production technologies and scenarios based on the established net present value method. At roeren, great importance is attached to ensuring that the work benefits the economy and society in equal measure. With the new software prototype, it is indeed possible to demonstrate the potential profitability of new and innovative production technologies.
AdDEDValue stands for a common goal: to establish Directed Energy Deposition (DED) as an important pillar of the manufacturing industry. This is an industrial 3D printing process that deposits metallic materials precisely and efficiently. Thanks to this method, parts and components can be produced cost-effectively and material-efficiently directly on site. This represents a significant alternative to traditional manufacturing processes, which are sometimes associated with complicated supply chains and other challenges in terms of material procurement and use. DED processes therefore represent a beacon of hope for German industry. The technologies developed in the joint project, including the roeren software tool, make DED processes more accessible to companies. This is because demonstrating the economic viability can, as a first step, allay any suspicions decision-makers may have about the new manufacturing technology. The tool can then be used for the decision-making process leading up to the investment.
The demonstrator of the AdDEDValue tool is available free of charge at the following link: https://addedvaluetool-e0833cb23760.herokuapp.com/.
The research project with its many participating experts will come to an end at the end of 2024. The final AdDEDValue project meeting took place on October 29 at the Technical University of Munich, where the consortium partners presented their results to each other. roeren presented its software prototype for profitability assessment and received a lot of encouragement from the consortium. The company wants to show people and companies how additive manufacturing can have a lasting positive impact on industrial series production. It is worth investing in innovative manufacturing processes and roeren wants to motivate people to do so with its software prototype.
With this project, roeren is helping to secure the future of production and demonstrating that high-tech comes from Landshut – for the region, Germany and the world.
