LISI GROUP - 2016 Activity report

LISI 2016 ANNUAL REPORT

LISI AEROSPACE Additive Manufacturing

SUPPORT OFFER

• Component Co-Design in Additive Manufacturing

• Topology optimization

• Settings definition (new materials and processes)

TECHNOLOGIES

• Laser Beam Melting – LBM

• Electron Beam Melting – EBM

MATERIALS & RAW MATERIALS

• Metals: Titanium, Aluminum, Inconel, Super Alloy

• Plastics: 2210FR, 2241FR, 2200, Ultem1010, Ultem9285

D is on. By opening up to the methods of additive

production, LISI AEROSPACE intends to play a

leading role in this major technological evolution.

In the heart of the vineyards of Graves, near

Bordeaux, the experience has taken shape, with

LISI AEROSPACE Additive Manufacturing (LAAM)

settling its premises on 1,800 m

. This subsidiary 60% owned by

LISI AEROSPACE and 40% by Poly-Shape, a pioneer of additive

metal manufacturing since 2007, has positioned itself to meet all

the expectations of the aviation industry.

A new industrial culture

“The opportunities are many,

says Jean-Louis Colders, CEO of

LISI AEROSPACE.

Standards must be developed and we must be

involved in this movement that will drive a new industrial culture.

The new lighter hollow parts with complex shapes cannot be

manufactured with conventional methods. Additive manufacturing

can produce them with levels of quality and strength consistent

with the requirements of the aerospace industries.“

Components co-design

With a team of 18 people, most of them from staff of both

partners, LAAM has the skills and the means of production

necessary to operate the main 3D technologies available –

laser beam melting and electron beam melting of – to provide

the aerospace market with components designed for additive

manufacturing on an industrial scale. LAAM’s offer covers

technical support (help with product design, change in shape

to facilitate additive manufacturing, topological optimization),

process control (manufacturing simulation, materials sizing,

control and characterization of powders, etc.) and processes

(finishing and controls). Large machines have been completing

this system since February 2017.

Combining technologies

In addition to the controls built into the manufacturing process

itself, LAAM has a mechanical testing laboratory and upstream

to that, a powder testing laboratory (composition, distribution,

granulometry, etc.). The company is also working on the

combination of additive and conventional technologies (extrusion,

molding, forging, etc.). LAAM has taken steps to obtain the

accreditations from its main customers (Airbus, Safran, Dassault

Aviation, Thales Alenia Space and Euro Heat Pipes).