EOS, Germany, is participating in this year’s Hanover Fair (April 25-29 2016). Within the scope of the Solutions Area Lightweight Design, which is part of “Industrial Supply”—the international leading trade fair for innovative supply and lightweight solutions—EOS and five other companies are presenting the topic of “Emotional Engineering in Lightweight Design” as part of a collaborative exhibition.
Networking and innovation in lightweight design will be discussed in all facets and along the entire supply chain—from brainstorming and industrial design, through design engineering and calculation, up to additively manufactured components, and corresponding material tests. The focus is on such aspects as design, emotion, cost-effectiveness, ecology, and the environment. There will be workshops for visitors at the booth and daily keynote presentations given by top-class speakers in the Material Forum.
EOS will showcase their FORMIGA P 110 system at the booth. The compact plastic AM system enables a reasonably priced and efficient introduction to the world of additive manufacturing. EOS will also display examples of various lightweight designs.
The demand for lightweight design with all its advantages is now occupying many industries, addressing concerns of using ever-scarcer and more-expensive commodities sparingly while also meeting industry-specific sustainability goals.
Maximilian Eils, Application Development Consultant at EOS says, “Additive manufacturing from EOS enables the design and quick, flexible, reasonably priced manufacturing of products directly from 3D CAD data. Any fine and simultaneously high-strength, lightweight design structures—impossible to manufacture using conventional procedures—can now be generated. Additive manufacturing offers innovative solutions for current and future challenges facing any industry and gives a developer maximum geometric freedom of design.”
