AIRTO member MTC has joined the Digitally Enabled Competitive & Sustainable Additive Manufacturing (DECSAM) project. Led by Airbus, this £38 million, four-year UK aerospace programme will develop and deploy the latest additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, such as beam shaping and in-situ process monitoring, to make metal laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) more cost-effective, productive and sustainable for flight-ready parts.
The project, which runs until June 2028 is a research and innovation project funded through Innovate UK, the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the UK Department for Business and Trade.
Planned outputs include ground and flight-test demonstrators, validated recycled/repurposed powder routes, widened powder specifications, verified parameter themes for quality and throughput, in-process monitoring software offerings, and guidance for routes to qualification and certification, all targeted at accelerating industrial exploitation.
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