Revers Engineering and AM for Military Mechanical Parts Replacement

摘要

EADS Innovation Works has used Geomagic Studio 3D imaging/reverse engineering software together with Additive Manufacturing technology to demonstrate a quicker, more cost-effective way to provide replacement parts for military vehicles and equipment in the field. Although modern military hardware bristles with advanced technology that gives it capabilities that seem, to the general public at least, to verge on the impossible, it takes several years for the latest technology to be put into regular service. As a result, the fact is that a large proportion of the aircraft and military vehicles - from tanks to trucks - that are in use today by armed forces around the world can be anything up to 20 or 30 years old.