Chicago-based Sciaky Inc. recently announced that Airbus has taken delivery of an electron beam additive manufacturing EBAM 110 system to build large structural parts of titanium. EBAM utilizes wire feedstock of a wide variety of metals and refractory alloys, such as stainless steels, titanium, tantalum, niobium, tungsten and Inconel.
Sciaky’s EBAM process combines computer-aided design, additive manufacturing processing principles, and an electron beam heat source.
Starting with a 3D model from a CAD (Computer Aided Design) program, Sciaky’s moving electron beam gun deposits metal via wire feedstock, layer by layer, until the part reaches near-net shape. From there, the near-net shape part requires heat treatment and post-production machining.