Digital Photonic Production along the Lines of Industry 4.0

摘要

'The creating engineer tells the production system, what the product should be in terms of functionality and the production system designs the product in terms of material as well as geometry - and creates it with tailored light." This is the Aachen vision of Digital Photonic Production DPP. Examples towards this goal have been given here in several laser processes like Laser Powder Bed Fusion L-PBF, Laser Metal Deposition LMD, high precision Laser Ultrafast Ablation and Laser Polishing. The trend of the current research focusses on the increase of productivity with the expectation of threshold-like increase of diffusion of the technology for the benefit of societv.