Renishaw plc · LSE:RSW
Renishaw — Investor Day (May 2014)
10 slides from Renishaw's investor day presentation, May 15, 2014
Slide 1: Investor Day: Additive Manufacturing Products Division
Investor Day Additive Manufacturing Products Division 15th May 2014 Presented by Simon Scott
Slide 2: Technology definition – Laser Melting
Technology definition – Laser Melting • What is additive manufacturing and 3D printing? – 3D printing is a generic term that covers both polymer and metallic layer based manufacturing processes. Industrial machines are usually referred to as additive manufacturing systems – or AM • Renishaw AM syste
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Slide 4: Customer needs: Aeronautical, space and defence
Customer needs • What are our markets and what are their drivers? – Aeronautical, space and defence. • Complexity and relative freedom of design • Lightweight structures • High value materials titanium and nickel alloys • AM offers substantial potential benefits to component manufacturers. • GE have
Slide 5: Customer needs: Medical
Customer needs • What are our markets and what are their drivers? – Medical • Bio-compatible materials • Mass customisation, patient specific design • Complex geometries to aid integration into the body • AM is already widely used in the manufacture of dental restorations where patient specific toot
Slide 6: Customer needs: Motorsport and high tech engineering
Customer needs • What are our markets and what are their drivers? – Motorsport and high tech engineering • Ability to respond rapidly to design changes • High performance Titanium, Nickel and Aluminium alloys • Heat transfer devices with conformal cooling • AM is used on a number of fronts to allow
Slide 7: Customer needs: Tooling – mould and die
Customer needs • What are our markets and what are their drivers? – Tooling – mould and die • Improved product quality • Technology advances to allow high gloss mouldings • Improved efficiencies through conformal cooling of mould tools • AM is used to produce conformal cooling channels allowing accu
Slide 8: Engineering solutions: Renishaw – Your process partner
Engineering solutions • Our Additive manufacturing products – Additive manufacturing systems • AM hardware - machines • Ancillaries - peripherals • Software – process tools – Expertise/education • Materials & process • Applications & integration – Consumables • Supply chain – raw materials Renishaw
Slide 9: Successful outcomes – Empire cycles
Successful outcomes – Empire cycles • Partnership project to demonstrate AM applications – Public domain project demonstrating...... • Topological optimisation, design for process, manufacturing economics, materials testing and robustness, post finish machining and fixturing, heat treatment, adhesiv
Slide 10: Thank you
Thank you Renishaw - Your process partner