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METALWORKING EQUIPMENT
AND TOOLS
In Russia, there are large companies with
high-level equipment, which, as a rule,
solve quite complex production problems
and provide a wider range of useful
services related to prototyping, capable of
carrying out R&D from beginning to end
and monitoring the quality of work at each
stage. These enterprises include FSUE
NAMI, Universal Bank, Salyut NPO, NIAT OJSC
(Moscow), UMPO (Ufa), Scientific Research
Institute of Machine-Building Technologies
(SPbSPU), Tushinsky Machine-Building
Plant OJSC and a number of others.
However, such an integrated approach is
absent in shipbuilding, and especially in
ship repair workshops, which can provide
the use of additive technology.
An example of state market intervention in solving complex technological problems is the
ACTech foundry, built in Freiburg (near Dresden) in the late 90s. The factory is small - only 6,500
square meters of total area, built brand-new, in a open field and was equipped with the most
advanced technological equipment, the main feature of which were AF-machines for growing
sand forms (from EOS, Munich). This was perhaps the first example of an integrated approach
— the plant was equipped with modern equipment for real work in the ZD environment: AF
machines, measuring equipment, CNC machines, melting, foundry and thermal equipment. At
present, about 230 people work there, 80 % of which are engineering and management. This is
one of the most famous factories with a worldwide reputation, whose customers are almost all the
leading automobile companies in Germany, many European and American aviation companies.
It is enough to transfer the ZD-file of the future product to the plant and describe the task:
material, quantity, desired production time and what they want to receive whether a casting
or a fully processed part as well as the lead time for the order depends on it from 7 days to 8
weeks. About 20 % of orders are single parts, about 40 % are orders for 2 to 5 parts. Almost
half of the parts are cast iron; about a third of aluminum; the rest is steel and other alloys.
The plant’s specialists actively cooperate with manufacturers of AF equipment, conduct joint
research with universities, and the plant
is both a successful commercial enterprise
and a testing ground for developing new
technological processes.
New assembly technologies, production
lines, software technologies, robotic control
should be operational in five to ten years,
both for military and civilian purposes such
terms were called at the first conference
on additive technologies by Russian Deputy
Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is
responsible for the government for the
military-industrial complex.
The key problem of the domestic
additive industry is the lack of its own
production of powders. For some time now,
the urgent need for the manufacture of powders did not occur, since they bought foreign ones.
Any restrictions on the supply of powder in the future and that is all, production stopped.
Nevertheless, the prices for powders for Russian buyers are significantly higher than for European
ones.
In the laser center of MSTU named after N.E.Bauman is working on a facility for additive
technologies; work in this direction is ongoing in St. Petersburg Polytechnic University -
there researchers study the porosity of the formed parts. The engineering center "Laser and
Additive Technologies" operates in Yekaterinburg on the basis of the Ural Federal University.
Voronezhselmash intends to create a domestic industrial additive apparatus for metal. Additive

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