Highlights

The 5-axis high-performance CNC machine tools The ODeCon is optimized for laser-based working processes. The integration of additional processing heads ensures comprehensive processing. In particular, the adAM-PRO® offers unique technology and world firsts:

• High-performance drive technology
  High application rates thanks to 300 m/min high-speed axes and accelerations of up to 120 m/s²
• Multi-tool processing
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  Short production times through integration of several laser processing heads for additive manufacturing, laser cutting, surface coating, smoothing and polishing
• Series part handling
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  Ready for series production through integrated separation of the product from the workpiece plate,


• with optional robot unloading
• Hybrid additive machining


• Short development times by extending existing products with additional contours, surfaces and cutouts
• 5D-eLA
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• Innovative process technology through changing materials and adapting material properties during ongoing powder-based additive manufacturing:
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• 3-dimensional component manufacturing and coating
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  Full 3-dimensional production through expandable 5-axis kinematics without influencing the powder jet


• Ad hoc material change
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• Material changes and adjustment of alloy components during ongoing production


• Material properties
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  Parameter adjustments to change material properties during ongoing production






Applications of the series ad AM-PRO ® are the individual and series production of metal components. All components required for operation are integrated into the machine frame and the system has the highest safety systems to protect your employees. The new technology also provides support at the end of production: the component can be automatically separated from the workpiece carrier and, optionally, a robot takes over the unloading of finished components while production of the next component begins.




The adAM-RD ® series. They are open systems that can be equipped with almost any components and sensors. Axis systems with low interference contours ensure excellent integration conditions. If required, repeat accuracies of less than 5µm can be achieved.




Full-fledged 3D generation, post-processing and coating Both systems allow for the production of metal components within a very short time. No time loss due to re-clamping processes during ongoing production and rework is possible thanks to up to 5 processing heads. These are controlled during the ongoing production process via the CNC control and changed automatically. Depending on your production processes, these could be, for example:




• Welding heads (laser or arc welding with powder or wire),
• Laser cutting heads
• Polishing tools (laser or rotary)
• Engraving tools (laser or rotary)
• Joining heads (soldering, gluing, riveting, etc.)
• Customer-specific special heads

Due to the universal expandability of the adAM-PRO® and adAM-RD® Components such as the valve (pictured bottom left / TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG) can be manufactured without time-consuming setup work using 3D laser deposition welding, 3D laser cutting and coating.

Performance data

Both series can be expanded to 12 synchronous axes, which significantly increases the scope for your specific special machining. ODeCon machine tools have a performance that is unique worldwide:

• Single axis speeds up to 300 m/min
• Accelerations up to 120 m/s²
• Rotation speeds (5th axis) up to 2,200 rpm
• Flexible standard installation space up to (X/Y/Z) 600 x 450 x 450 mm³
  
  

Equipment variants

The Adam-Machines are ideal for the use of laser-based processes, such as high-speed laser welding (see below). Depending on the customer's requirements, high-end systems consisting of laser source, laser optics, powder feed and application nozzle are used. One example is the Deposition Line from TRUMPF Other equipment variants are possible and are individually tailored to the requirements of your product.

For laser-based working processes with powder or wire feeding of additional materials, the machines of the type adAM-PRO ® the greatest possible protection for operators. Laser protection, filter technology and machine monitoring exceed current guidelines. Precisely because of their exceptional performance data, these machines are precision systems with repeat accuracies of up to a few 1/1,000ths of a millimeter.

Our machine series can be used to manufacture and process both the smallest components and metal parts as large as engine blocks, in series production as well as in individual part production.

Laser cladding belongs to the category of DED processes (Direct Energy Deposition) and is also conventionally referred to as LMD process (Laser Material Deposition). The innovative EHLA process is a modified LMD process and was developed and patented in 2012 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and the RWTH Chair of DAP - both based in Aachen.

The EHLA process differs from the conventional LMD process in the location where the supplied metal powder is heated and melted. In the conventional LMD process, this takes place on the product surface in a large melt pool created by a laser beam.

In the EHLA process, the metal powder crosses the laser beam over the product surface and is heated in flight. This requires a much smaller melt pool on the product surface and enables the significantly higher speeds of the EHLA process. Hence the name: Extremes H high-speed L aser- A arface welding.

The first industrial application was in 2012 to replace galvanic coatings containing chromium VI for the offshore sector. Today, EHLA technology can be found in many areas, for example in aerospace, tool and automotive technology.

In the picture on the right you can see examples of components manufactured or coated using the EHLA process from Fraunhofer ILT (top left), Acunity GmbH (top right) and TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG (bottom row).

The innovative EHLA process and its creators from Fraunhofer ILT and the RWTH Chair DAP in Aachen have received several awards.