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How Materialise Software Solutions Helped to Create the World’s Largest Jet Engine

How Materialise Software Solutions Helped to Create the World’s Largest Jet Engine

The GE9X, the largest jet engine in the world developed for Boeing’s next-generation 777X jets, took its maiden flight on the GE flying testbed in March 2018. Discover how its crucial 3D-printed turbine parts were created using Materialise software solutions, and how these same solutions can power certified series manufacturing in Industry 4.0.

Philip Buchholz, process engineer

Digital, Interconnected, and Automated: 3D Printer Control for Industry 4.0

Solutions: Magics 3D Print Suite, Streamics

Since it opened in April 2016, Materialise’s production site for metal 3D printing in Bremen has expanded to include more new 3D metal printers. Materialise Streamics software ensures optimum, cost-saving management of the printers and the orders completed with them. Process engineer Philip Buchholz explains how Streamics has been modified to meet requirements from a growing pool of printers to diverse customer needs.

The 3D-printed Titanium insert

Predicting Deformations of Titanium Inserts: The Power of Simulation Software

Solutions: Magics

Sandwich panels are used in aeronautics and aerospace applications where high structural rigidity and low weight are required. Together with ATOS, a global leader in digital services, we have developed a lightweight titanium insert design for a sandwich panel. The insert design was specifically developed for production with Additive Manufacturing (AM) and allowed for a 66% weight reduction of the traditional insert design, which has a brick-like shape.

A 63% Lighter Titanium Aerospace Part

A 63% Lighter Titanium Aerospace Part

Solutions: 3-matic, Lightweight Structures, Metal 3D Printing

With Materialise software that is perfectly compatible with simulation and analysis software, you can create strong and light industrial metal parts. This aerospace part was 3D printed in Titanium at our metal competence center in Bremen, with a 63% weight reduction compared to the traditionally manufactured part.

Lighter, Faster, Cheaper: Manufacturing Flight-Ready Parts for 328 Support Services

Lighter, Faster, Cheaper: Manufacturing Flight-Ready Parts for 328 Support Services

Solutions: Certified Additive Manufacturing

328 needed an affordable, fast, and flexible solution to produce low-demand spare parts for the Do328 aircraft. Discover how choosing Materialise’s aerospace manufacturing services takes the risk out of their spare parts strategy and offers flight-ready parts on demand.

Titanium metal 3D Printing

Titanium Inserts for Spacecraft: 66% Lighter with Metal 3D Printing

Solutions: 3-matic, Metal 3D Printing

Weight optimization is crucial in the quest to lower the cost per kilogram launched into space. Discover how Atos and Materialise combined their expertise to reinvent a widely used titanium component, creating a part that is lighter, more durable, and offers improved load distribution.

Aircraft wiring

Organizing Meters of Aircraft Wiring: Fokker Elmo’s Cable Twist Wheels

Solutions: 3-matic, Certified Additive Manufacturing

Fokker Elmo specializes in solutions to keep the immense wiring of an aircraft clear and manageable before and during installation. With clever 3D-printed assembly tools, Fokker Elmo keeps its production routing process organized, even when handling hundreds of meters of wiring.

Avio Aero Thinks Additive

Avio Aero Thinks Additive

Solutions: Magics, Streamics

Streamics and Magics, two of our leading software packages, support Avio Aero in manufacturing lightweight titanium blades for jet engine turbines: from preparing builds for the different Additive Manufacturing machines, to offering the necessary automation, control and traceability required to produce regulated aviation parts.

an aircraft engine bracket

Materialise 3-matic Makes Topology Optimization More Attractive

Solutions: 3-matic, Additive Manufacturing, CAD, Magics, Metal 3D Printing

A Delft University graduate student wanted to use topology optimization to minimize the volume and weight of an aircraft engine bracket. However, it was taking too long to convert optimized files back to a CAD format: until he tried 3-maticSTL.