Accelerate your additive manufacturing journey with Siemens Energy expertise
Building on over a decade of experience as an advanced user of metal additive applications, Siemens Energy can also support our external customers with AM parts and solutions. Our expertise in design and simulation is grounded in the successful qualification and industrialization of functional additive components.
Design
Design experience in multiple industries enables us to develop optimized AM geometries for any challenges
More than 15 years of experience in additive manufacturing
More than 100 design egineers with multiple years of experience in design for AM
Simulation
Mastery of multiple simulation technologies combining performance-driven and manufacturing-driven simulation approaches
Access to all leading simulation software for optimal part performance results
Part and process qualification
Full qualification of materials, parts, and processes for end-use components
Proven specifications to fully qualify industrial-grade manufacturing and quality
Dual business model as user and provider of additive services
Customer's added value: Combined skills of leading AM design company and AM service provider
By combining our decades of expertise in designing high-performance gas turbine parts with our outstanding manufacturing experience with 3D printing in all high-tech industries, we're able to deliver unique solutions to our customers that couldn't be achieved using conventional methods.
Siemens Energy
More than 10 years of AM design and simulation experience
50+ qualified AM components for serial manufacturing
>1,500,000 operating hours of AM parts in our own gas turbine fleet
Extensive AM material database
Designs based on the highest standards for power generation and transmission and oil and gas
Materials Solutions
More than 15 years of experience with laser powder-bed fusion technology
Multiple years of experince with printing design optimization
State of the art fully automated AM factories with more than 30 metal LPBF printers
Serving multiple high-end industries including aerospace, racing, aviation, and energy
Experienced in prototyping, small-series, and high-volume
Design
Our highly experienced AM design engineers support you with designs for additive manufacturing, part performance optimization, and special applications for all industries and a variety of printing technologies.
Part performance optimization
Optimize part characteristics like cooling, burst containment, weight, and cost while maintaining printability
Proven part performance based on simulation results or prototype testing
Functional integration
Optimized lead time, part performance, and assembly cost by combining multiple parts into one
Full business case assessment to ensure cost-optimized solution for final application
Reverse engineering
Create 3D models by scanning parts or digitizing drawings
Optimize parts for performance and printability
Define manufacturing setup to ensure future part availability
Heat-exchanger designs
Customized compact heat-exchanger design based on final performance and space requirements
Full performance and mechanical integrity simulation
Prototype printing and testing to validate simulation results
Simulation
Let's get physical! We take the physics into the digital world and simulate the reality.
Material models: how to simulate material deformation and stress
Generative design: topology optimization
Impact/explicit
Simulation of very short duration events (<<1sec)
Rotor burst and containment of debris
Impact of automotive structures
Ballistic survivability
Fluid dynamics
CFD: computational fluid dynamic simulations to maximize performance
Expertise with a variety of simulation software
Generative design: shape optimization
Print simulation
Predict distortion
Pre-distort starting design based on simulation to predict high stress/cracking and potential recoater crash
Optimization of build-plate layout and support strategy
Thermal
CHT: Conjugate heat transfer captures the heat in motion
Expertise with a variety of simulation software
Generative design: shape optimization
Qualification
Qualifying the printing processes and parts and defining the quality assurance procedures are the final steps in industrial grade serial production. Make it happen with our help.
L-PBF process chain: each step qualified for serial production
Full end-to-end process definition, including design optimization, process qualification, post processing, and quality assurance – to get the highest-performing part at the lowest cost in serial manufacturing.
AM material data services
Siemens Energy produced a tremendous amout of material data over the last decades for conventional and AM materials that can be leveraged to reduce customer's development costs and accelerate AM programs.
We have an extended data set available for a variety of materials, including AM process parameters. We can set up entire material programs to fully qualify materials and prepare external certifications for our customers.
We can support you create an enterprise training solution that's appropriate for your business. From engaging executive stakeholders to developing advanced design to build additive expertise - we have a full portfolio of courses and workshops to support your teams' learning and development needs.
Engineering workshops
Online self-study
Personal trainings
AM Bootcamp
Training with your own components
Interactive workshops using customer parts
Support by Siemens Energy experts with multiple years of AM expertise
Full knowledge transfer to educate our customers' engineers
Fully tailored to our customers' needs
Online classes via our partner network
AM part failure analysis: What went wrong?
You'll learn how to successfully:
Identify fast assessment strategies for print defects
Analyze use cases to minimize printing risks
Discuss efficient AM design methods to reduce iterations
Think critically to perform root-cause analysis on a failed print
Who should attend?
Engineering teams at design and manufacturing firms as well as individuals
Early- to mid-career engineers, including design engineers, materials engineers, manufacturing engineers, and others with an interest in design for metal additive manufacturing