Renowned additive manufacturing expert Dr. Ingomar Kelbassa of Fraunhofer ILT, will provide a keynote address on laser AM and 3D printing in the Laser Technology Showcase theater on the exhibit floor of the fourth annual Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) on Sept. 24 in Schaumburg, IL.
Kelbassa, a frequent speaker at LIA events, is also serving as general chair of LIA’s seventh annual Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop in March 2015. He was also part of the team at Germany’s Fraunhofer ILT that won an Aviation Week innovation award in 2012 for the institute’s additively manufactured 80-blade BLISK, or blade-integrated disk.
“From the material point of view, from the maturity point of view, from the technology readiness point of view,” additive techniques like selective laser melting are ready for industrial implementation, Kelbassa asserts. His address at LME will emphasize to attendees the key tenets of additive manufacturing: “Complexity for free (and) individualization for free.”