IMTS 2022 Conference: Accessible Hybrid Manufacturing with Autodesk Fusion 360 and Phillips Corp.

About the presentation

Hybrid manufacturing describes the combined use of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes to produce end use components. This emerging technology has the potential to displace conventional manufacturing approaches and enable advances in product sustainability, performance, and lead time. However, uptake of the technology has been relatively limited due to its high barriers of entry; the inaccessibility of machines and software and the knowledge required to be successful with the technology, to name a few. As industry rapidly develops, novel solutions to these challenges are prevailing. This talk showcases a recent collaboration between Autodesk and Phillips Corp. to develop a combination of accessible hardware and software solutions for hybrid manufacturing. Using the Haas machine platform, directed energy deposition technology from Meltio and integrated CAD-CAM with Autodesk Fusion 360, this collaboration demonstrates how hybrid technology is ready for the machine shop.

Registration
Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media, The IMTS 2022 Conference features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so register today. Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation, The IMTS 2022 Conference addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.

Meet your presenter
Brian Kristaponis joined the Phillips team in 2016 as an applications engineer for the federal division and, shortly after became applications manager. Kristaponis and his team supported the U.S. Government with all things Haas and additive. His latest venture combined CNC machining and metal 3D printing into one system, bringing the best value additive hybrid machines to market! Hybrid gives customers the benefits of both technologies.

Robert Bowerman is a technical consultant at Autodesk, based in the Fusion360 product team, working in the field of AM. His work includes collaborative work with industrial partners and internal R&D to create the future workflows for AM processes, with a focus on directed energy deposition and powder bed fusion. Bowerman’s motivation is to drive innovation within AM to achieve scale and adoption throughout the supply chain.

Brian Matthews, chief technology officer, Meltio. Matthews holds a postgraduate degree in nuclear physics with over 23 years of experience in advanced nuclear energy systems design and analysis. A proven successful startup entrepreneur, Matthews founded a nuclear consulting company in 2012, founded a vertically integrated metal additive manufacturing company in 2015, and co-founded a global additive manufacturing company in 2019. Matthews serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Meltio and oversees the R&D, special projects, and technology incubation activities of the company. Matthews holds several patents related to multi-laser AM and has served as the PI on several first-of-a-kind projects related to AM in aerospace and micro-gravity applications. Matthews is an advocate for tightly integrated ground-up technologies and promotes these principles within the Meltio organization as it rapidly commercializes its novel technology to create a genuinely disruptive AM solution in the market.

About the company
For more than 50 years, federal government, industry, and education leaders have trusted the people at Phillips Corporation to solve their greatest manufacturing challenges. With a worldwide presence and partnerships with technology leaders like Haas Automation and EOS, our goal is to create value for the manufacturing community by unlocking solutions to propel manufacturing capabilities, profitability, and productivity. Phillips is a global manufacturing solutions company that started as a machine tool distributor. We’ve most recently established a Public-Private Partnership agreement to work with the U.S. Department of Defense to educate, inspire, and redefine the capabilities of additive manufacturing.