£600,000 funding boost for UK-Israel partnership on AI for Additive Manufacturing

September 30, 2019

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September 30, 2019
£600,000 funding boost for UK-Israel partnership on AI for Additive Manufacturing
Left to right: Itamar Yona (Printsyst Ltd. CEO) and Tom Dawes (Valuechain and DNA.am Ltd. Chairman)

Additive Manufacturing software company, DNA.am Ltd, Daresbury, UK, and Israel’s Printsyst, an AM-focused AI start-up, have announced a strategic partnership to develop an integrated Artificial Intelligence solution to scale and optimise Additive Manufacturing in the aerospace sector. 

Funded by Innovate UK and the Israel Innovation Authority, the collaborative innovation project will combine many AM data sources (captured by DNA.am’s Manufacturing Execution System) with Printsyst’s AM Artificial Intelligence engine; to develop an AI and deep-learning solution that aims to enable global aerospace manufacturers to improve productivity and scale-up their AM operations.

Tom Dawes, Chairman of DNA.am and its parent company, Valuechain, commented, “Aerospace companies continue to invest heavily in AM plant, but are yet to implement smart solutions that optimise plant and resource efficiencies. Driving AM productivity and generating tangible return on investment has to be the priority for the AM ecosystem.”

He continued, “By combining DNA.am’s streamlined data capture and aerospace traceability with Printsyst’s AI optimisation engine, we are confident that our integrated solution will standardise best practice processes for growing companies and accelerate AM adoption in the aerospace sector and other highly regulated sectors.”

Itamar Yona, Printsyst CEO, stated, “In our experience, AM organisations are unfamiliar with best practice AM workflows and the many parameters required for 3D printing optimisation, such as geometry, material or which AM technology to select. So, when they’re creating a new AM build, it will often take several attempts before reaching a version which is a real fit for purpose, resulting in a very expensive and time-consuming process.”

“Through our strategic partnership with DNA.am and Valuechain, we will create an integrated solution that learns from previous AM builds and analyses of the exact intent for which the part is going to be used to comply with industry specifications, and suggest printing parameters that will have the highest probability of right-first-time AM builds,” he continued. “Our solution will accurately estimate AM component costings and eliminate need for trial and error, which will ultimately transform AM productivity through improved quality, cost and delivery responsiveness.”

DNA.am and Printsyst will showcase the prototypes for this collaborative project at Formnext, 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany, November 19–22.

www.valuechain.com/production-control/dnaam

www.printsyst.com 

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