Medical Days 2023 - Glenoid baseplate

Medical days at Mikron Tool with DMG MORI and Motorex Machining, additive manufacturing or hybrid: advantages and disadvantages Which manufacturer is not torn when it comes to defining a future-proof process? The technology race among machine tool manufacturers is in full swing. Constantly improving, highly flexible and dynamic machining centres with a strong trend towards automation offer producers endless possibilities. In addition, younger technologies such as additive manufacturing continue to evolve, currently reinventing itself every three years. Is it an alternative or a useful addition to material-removal manufacturing? This was the aim of the Medical Days at the Technology Centre, to which Mikron Tool and its partners - DMG MORI and Motorex - had invited manufacturers from Switzerland, Germany and Italy. And they did so using a practical example from the field of medical technology. For this purpose, DMG MORI Bielefeld - Additive Manufacturing Business Unit - made a Lasertech 30 DUAL SML available to the team at Mikron Tool's Technology Centre as a "loan", quite unbureaucratically. Thanks to an already existing highly flexible turning and milling centre for six-sided machining (NTX 1000) and a 5-axis machining centre (DMP70), the hybrid production chain was complete, and the machining specialists could start with the test series. For this project, a glenoid base plate (component of a shoulder prosthesis) made of titanium Ti6AI4V ELI was: 1.) classically machined; 2.) additively manufactured; 3.) manufactured in a hybrid process. The "advantages and disadvantages" of the individual manufacturing processes are certainly closely linked to the component to be manufactured. Material, geometry and numbers, these criteria are decisive. Which variant proved to be the most effective in the manufacture of the glenoid base plate, not only in monetary terms but also in terms of quality, you can see in the Medical Days video! More about Mikron Tool Homepage: https://www.mikrontool.com/en Crazy Tools: https://www.mikrontool.com/en/Products/Crazy-tools Crazy Services: https://www.mikrontool.com/en/Services/Consulting Follow Mikron Tool LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mikron-tool/posts/?feedView=all&viewAsMember=true YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E09orFKWWk Contact Mikron Tool https://www.mikrontool.com/en/Contact-Locations/Local-Contacts #motorex #dmgmori