World Material ForumAn Airbus perspective on Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing

Nicole LECCA, Senior Vice President Material and Parts Procurement

Overview

• Additive Manufacturing: What’s in it for an Aircraft manufacturer?

• Additive Manufacturing: Current developments at Airbus

• Challenges for the industry

• Capture of full potential: Design differently!

• Conclusion

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Additive Manufacturing: What’s in it for an Aircraft manufacturer?

Airbus Business Priorities

Services

Innovation &

Digitalization

Delivery

PerformanceRate Evolution

Development

Milestones

Compliance

Cost

Product Evolution

Support and Services

Airbus Transformation

Industrial Performance

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Development Time & NRC Driven

Additive Manufacturing: What’s in it for an Aircraft manufacturer?

Aircraft Lifecycle

4

New Product Development Serial Production In-Service

• Functional Prototyping

• Long Lead Time Items

• Ease of Design Evolution

• Repair Solutions

• Spare Parts

• Supplier Obsolescence

Low Volume / High Mix

Product Cost & Performance DrivenHigh Volume

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A350Spare parts for A300

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• Mitigate Supply Disruption

• Optimised Parts (Perfo. / Cost)

• More Integrated Structures

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ALM Polymer

Technologies

(Plastic)

ALM Titanium DED

(Direct Energy

Deposition)

Technologies

ALM Metallic Alloys

Powder Bed

Technologies

Digital Platform

# of designers trained to AM design

methods & tools 200+Enabler

Additive Manufacturing: Current developments at Airbus

Technologies under focus

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Additive Manufacturing: Current developments at Airbus

Current supplier mapping

Parts: Metal DED

Parts: Metal Powder Bed

Parts: Polymer

Metal Wire Material

Metal Powder Material

Polymer Material

Machines

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Challenges for the industry

Maturation of Additive Manufacturing industry needed in parallel with 2018 growing deliveries

• Cost improvement (Competition)

• Technical / Industrial robustness

• Target progressively critical parts

PROCESS / PARTS

MACHINE

• Industrialize (eg Post processing)

• Investigate further optimisation

• Secure Skills

• Important work : stable / repeatable high performance

MATERIAL

• Secure high performance

• Investigate lower cost

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Capture of full potential: Design differently!

Develop design capabilities and supply chain. Less constraints on design: Faster & Smarter.

Deployment of Additive manufacturing across the aircraft: Engine, Cabin, Systems, Structure

• Build on demonstrated properties

• Develop tools to ease design and manufacturing

• Learn from pathfinders

• Develop skills through training and change culture

Key success factors

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Weight reduction from 2.1kg to 1.5kg (-35%) Weight reduction from 457g to 215g (-53%)

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Additive Manufacturing for Airbus :

Deliver value through optimized material usage

Growth potential relies upon smart design and industrial robustness

LESS

Reduce weight through different

design concept. Up to -50%.

LONGER:

Support fleet life time with

aftermarket solutions.

SMARTER

Reduce cost and increase ecoefficiency: eg

Recycle machining waste into powder/wire

FASTER

Short lead time for customization

small series and retrofit

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Thank you

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