(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s full range of RenAM 500 series of metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems and TEMPUS technology are now integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE virtual machine from Dassault Systèmes. Users of the 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA powder-bed machine programmer role can now set up, program, and analyze additive manufacturing processes for Renishaw AM systems.

“A virtual machine is an exact representation of a machine in the virtual world, with all its parameters. You can launch a production run and make virtual parts; it’s unique in terms of quality validation,” says Jérémy Mosse, team and application manager at Dassault Systèmes.

Productivity breakthroughs with TEMPUS technology

The 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA powder-bed machine programmer (APB) role provides a 3D interactive environment that enables manufacturing engineers to optimize powder-bed fusion manufacturing techniques. This includes Renishaw’s TEMPUS technology—an innovative scanning algorithm exclusive to the RenAM 500 series of AM machines. It enables the laser to operate while the recoater is in motion, achieving time savings of up to 9 seconds per build layer without compromising part quality. As a result, overall build times can be reduced by as much as 50%.

Olivier Scart, DELMIA alliances director for partnerships at Dassault Systèmes says, “This collaboration enables a unique approach to efficient metal 3D printing. The combination of Renishaw’s TEMPUS technology and the end-to-end unique solution provided by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will break silos and open a new stage for additive manufacturing industrialization.

“Partnering with 3D printer manufacturers maximizes efficiency by optimizing build preparation and streamlining build jobs,” Scart says. “This enables manufacturing at all volumes and levels of customisation, allowing users to scale production.”

Advantages of AM end-to-end solution

The DELMIA product range from Dassault Systèmes specializes in global industrial operations software focused on digital manufacturing and simulation. The DELMIA additive manufacturing tools facilitate effective data management throughout the AM process. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides an end-to-end solution that streamlines data collection and analysis, allowing manufacturers to ensure certification and replication capabilities.

TEMPUS technology offers key productivity advantages to Renishaw’s market-leading range of metal additive manufacturing systems. “This technology allows the lasers to work continuously while the recoater supplies and positions each layer of powder, significantly increasing productivity and reducing the manufacturing cost per part,” says Matt Parkes, AM strategic development manager at Renishaw.

“With TEMPUS technology, Renishaw has successfully solved an inefficiency in the traditional laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) production process and paved the way for AM use in a broad range of applications where it wasn’t previously cost effective,” Parkes says.

Thanks to the collaboration between Renishaw and Dassault Systèmes, the DELMIA AM software on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers a number of advantages to users of Renishaw’s AM technologies. These include part validation for the performance of the parts before they are 3D-printed; part simulation of the AM process to virtually explore all the machine parameters specified for a build; part traceability between engineering and manufacturing to ensure an accurate replication of parts; and increasing 3D-printer productivity to cut part build time without diminishing quality.

To learn more about TEMPUS technology, visit www.renishaw.com/tempus.