Additive Manufacturing Challenge Winners Announced

Earlier this week, Additive Industries awarded the winners of its Additive Manufacturing Design Challenge. The competition had contestants design or redesign a product for additive manufacturing. From a group of 47 entries in both professional and student categories, the prize committee selected a winner from each category. 

Second row (left to right): Mr. David SK Wong (Nanyang Polytechnic, jury member), Janne Kyttanen (Digital Sculptor, jury member), Erik de Bruijn (Ultimaker, chairman of the jury), Rein van der Mast (AddLab, jury member), Mirko Bromberger (Altair, jury member). First row: Elvira León and Javier Buhigas (Team AtoS AM Engineering, professional category winners). Image courtesy of Additive Industries.

Team AtoS AM Engineering designed a new aerospace bearing to help orient satellite solar panels. According to the selection committee, the design combined multiple different parts into one new design which required only minimum assembly. Besides that a substantial weight reduction was achieved in combination with a performance improvement.

Aerospace bracket design from Team AtoS Am Engineering.

The student winner is Cassidy Silbernagel from the University of Nottingham, who created an electric motor casting to enable motorcycle electrification. His design reduces eight parts to one lightweight component showing one of the major advantages that can be achieved by additive manufacturing. Moreover he cleverly integrated room for heat transfer and well-rounded wiring tunnels. Special mention was for the parametric tool for customized 3D printed facade connections for glass panels in the construction industry of Juhun Lee and Paul Kassabian, an organization press release states.

Motor casting design by student winner Cassidy Silbernagel.

In addition to honoring the design challenge winners, Additive Industries also presented two Additive World Awards. Martin Schäfer of Siemens received an Industrial Achievement award for his efforts on standardization adoption and processes as chairman of the AM Platform. Janne Kyttanen also accepted an Industrial Achievement award for his work to commercialize high-volume 3D-printed products.

Source: Additive Industries