In research of future-oriented manufacturing technology

With its agenda TUM.Additive, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is kicking off a comprehensive research focus on additive manufacturing. Together with high-tech partners in industry, TUM has founded the “Bavarian Additive Manufacturing Cluster” with the aim of establishing Bavaria as the prominent economic region for digital manufacturing technologies. TUM is now implementing the first milestone of its future strategy “TUM Agenda 2030”.

Using advanced, innovative materials and intelligent combinations, new process technologies based on digital 3D designs can be deployed to develop a wide variety of components with complex geometries in a load and function-oriented manner, building them up additively, layer for layer.Thanks to its small energy and resource footprints, additive manufacturing can contribute significantly to achieving declared climate goals. Furthermore, additive manufacturing’s highly digitisable processes promise to bring production capacity back to Germany, and with that, highly qualified jobs.

Novel products and functionalities

Additive manufacturing facilitates the creation of new products and functionalities tailored to individual user needs. “This is in keeping with the approach of human-centered engineering – a guiding principle of TUM’s strategic development. Additive manufacturing holds vast potential for fundamentally revolutionising the manufacturing industry,” says Thomas F. Hofmann, President of TUM, at the Munich Technology Conference on Additive Manufacturing (MTC3). The conference, which focuses on the industrial application of additive manufacturing, is currently taking place for the third time at TUM.

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Source: “TUM researching future-oriented digital manufacturing technology”, Technical University of Munich