This article series presents various possibilities along the product life cycle that innovative additive solutions offer to a tradition-conscious industry. In the third part, variants of Rapid Casting, costs and options in the spare parts business are considered.

This article series presents various possibilities along the product life cycle that innovative additive solutions offer to a tradition-conscious industry. In the second part, we focus on freedom of design and bionics.

This article series presents various possibilities along the product life cycle that innovative additive solutions offer to a tradition-conscious industry. In the first part, we describe the differences to the conventional method and introduce the process chain.

As a portal for light metal casting, we report almost exclusively on light metals as aluminum, magnesium or zinc. But when so-called ADI constructions have the potential to be lighter than aluminum components, we make an exception.

By printing prototypes in 3D with sand, a foundry reduces delivery times from at least two months to around ten working days. This process is called Rapid Casting.