Hardinge Inc. (NASDAQ:HDNG), a leading international provider of
advanced metal-cutting solutions and accessories, announced today
that Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) recently acquired a
Bridgeport GX 250 5-axis vertical machining center for use in a
collaborative partnership to integrate additive manufacturing
functions into the GX 250 traditional machining platform. In
addition to RIT and Hardinge, partners on the project include
Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies, based in Dallas, Texas, and IPG
Photonics, of Oxford, Mass.
Mr. James Langa, Hardinge's Senior Vice President of Machine
Solutions, commented, "Manufacturers are constantly in search of
new processes that are flexible, improve part quality and reduce
overall cost. We believe that the combination of additive and
subtractive technology coupled with precise five-axis machine tool
capability has strong potential for real-world industrial
applications. Adopting, adapting and advancing cutting edge
technologies for the benefit of our customers is vital to our
growth strategy." Hardinge will be providing field service, design
and applications engineering for the program.
Ronald Aman, project lead and assistant professor of Industrial
and Systems Engineering in RIT's Kate Gleason College of
Engineering, noted, "Today there is no commercial software that can
reliably generate the tool paths that are necessary to control both
additive and subtractive processes in five-axis
equipment. This presents a real challenge for mainstream
adoption. We will be addressing this challenge by focusing on
improving process planning and tool path generation, developing new
materials, advancing overall process development and identifying
new applications, as well as fundamental research aimed at
radically changing the way we think of materials in a part."
The GX 250 is a multi-axis machining center that produces
precision parts through traditional manufacturing processes. A
high precision process, the machine mechanically cuts away material
from a block using exacting motion control of rotating tools.
RIT researchers will incorporate additive manufacturing, or
3D printing, capabilities to the original machine to take advantage
of the geometric freedom afforded by additive manufacturing while
meeting aerospace tolerance requirements.
Integration of multiple processes, such as laser additive
manufacturing and milling or turning, into a single platform is a
new and rapidly growing field referred to as hybrid
manufacturing. The hybrid manufacturing process has many
advantages such as lower costs and improved accuracy, but also has
unique capabilities such as dynamically changing a part's material
composition as it is being built.
As part of the integration process, the researchers will be
incorporating multiple powder feeders to blow metal or ceramic
powder into the melt-pool, a type of 3D-printing function known as
directed energy deposition. Multiple powder feeders will allow
the use of more than one material for a product, including a
combination of metals and ceramics or two or more metals.
"Imagine the power of smoothly transitioning materials, such as
from copper to tool steel, or even ceramics in the future.
This eliminates the abrupt material composition change that
is nearly always the failure point for materials that have vastly
different mechanical or thermal characteristics," said Professor
Aman, who has expertise in the development of direct-metal additive
manufacturing processes. He also has background in researching
and developing the hybrid additive and subtractive metal
manufacturing processes of single and multi-materials systems.
"There are not, to my knowledge, any other processes that will have
the capabilities of this system," he added.
Professor Aman and Mr. Langa jointly concluded, "The partnership
between RIT and Hardinge is a critical step to advance the hybrid
ideas out of the laboratory and make it possible for companies to
apply this new technology in production processes."
The Bridgeport GX 250, which was installed in the Brinkman
Machine Tools and Manufacturing Lab located in RIT's Kate Gleason
College of Engineering, will be part of the lab's extensive series
of high-precision machining tools and equipment. It will also
be used to support research in the AMPrint Center for Advanced
Technology, a new university-corporate partnership focusing on
expanding additive manufacturing and multi-functional printing
capabilities, considered key economic drivers in New York
State.
About Hardinge
Hardinge is a leading global designer and manufacturer of high
precision, computer-controlled machine tool solutions developed for
critical, hard-to-machine metal parts and of technologically
advanced workholding accessories. The Company's strategy is to
leverage its global brand strength to further penetrate global
market opportunities where customers will benefit from the
technologically advanced, high quality, reliable products Hardinge
produces. With approximately two thirds of its sales outside
of North America, Hardinge serves the worldwide metal working
market. Hardinge's machine tool and accessory solutions can
also be found in a broad base of industries to include aerospace,
agricultural, automotive, construction, consumer products, defense,
energy, medical, technology and transportation.
Hardinge applies its engineering design and manufacturing
expertise in high performance machining centers, high-end
cylindrical and jig grinding machines, SUPER-PRECISION® and
precision CNC lathes and technologically advanced workholding
accessories. Hardinge has manufacturing operations in China,
France, Germany, India, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and
the United States.
The Company regularly posts information on its website:
http://www.hardinge.com.
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CONTACT: For more information, contact:
Company:
Douglas J. Malone
Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (607) 378-4140
Product:
James Langa
Sr. VP, Metal-cutting Machine Solutions &
President, Milling & Turning
Phone: (607) 378-4247
Investor Relations:
Deborah K. Pawlowski, Kei Advisors LLC
Phone: (716) 843-3908
Email: dpawlowski@keiadvisors.com
Rochester Institute of Technology:
Michelle Cometa
Senior Staff Writer
University News Services
Phone: (585) 475-4954
Email: macuns@rit.edu
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