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Additive Layer Manufacturing

Manufacturing Faster, Cheaper and Better

Additive Layer Manufacturing

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) will enable us to achieve our customer’s requirements for future propulsion and power systems’ performance whilst significantly reducing the lead time and cost of what we deliver. To truly exploit the benefits that ALM has to offer, we have introduced digital engineering tools all the way from concept design to inspection of the final physical product.

Commonly known as metallic 3D printing, ALM provides the ability to create extremely complex component geometry previously unattainable with traditional techniques such as casting.

Here at Rolls-Royce, ALM will deliver unprecedented benefits to the products and systems we deliver in the future:

Enhancing Performance: by designing new optimised components that will provide future aircraft with more power than ever before
Improving Efficiency: through manufacturing lightweight components designed for efficiency we will help our customers get more power from less fuel
Significantly Reducing Time: enabling us to develop and deliver our solutions to the customer at a much more rapid pace
Superior Quality: providing us with the potential to achieve superior material properties
Unprecedent Flexibility: offering the ability to manufacture at offsite locations such as customer operational facilities, anywhere in the world!

How Digital enables ALM:

Rapid Design for Rapid Manufacture

Combining the developed experience of our design engineers with state-of-the-art digital tools we enable rapid concept generation and the ability to digitally optimise designs before the physical asset is created. Through this digital first approach, what used to take six months can now be done in a matter of days.

Automated Digital Design

Revolutionising Preliminary Design Engineering

FUNDAMENTAL

revolutionising the engineering process

Enterprise Modelling

Using data to support complex decisions

Model-Based Definition

DELIVERING POWER TO PROTECT - FASTER, SMARTER & BETTER