I2P From Idea to Metal 3D Printing project

The I2P project aims to help companies in the manufacturing industry in the Northern Calotte and northwestern Russia to convert to production via 3D printing. The project is funded by the EU's Kolarctic CBC program.

The project is a collaboration between the universities of Luleå, Oulu, Finland, Tromsö, Norway and Arkhangelsk, Russia. It is a continuation of the project "C3TS" where the same actors were given funding to spread knowledge about the new manufacturing method.

The European Commission has suspended the participation of the Russian Federation in the implementation of the cross-border cooperation programmes between the European Union and Russia, starting from March 3, 2022. The project will continue without the Russian partners, with RDI-actors and companies from Finland, Sweden and Norway working together.

The project began in late 2019 and ended at the beginning of 2023 with a budget of approximately 1 M€ (SEK 10 million). The main financier is the EU via Kolarctic CBC program.

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I2P From Idea to Metal 3D Printing project results

I2P poster:

I2P project poster (English)

Guidelines:

Guide for metal printing (English)
  Guide for metal printing (Finnish)
  Guide for metal printing (Swedish)
  Guide for metal printing (Norwegian)

Project reports and presentations:

1. Promoting Metal Additive Manufacturing in the Kolarctic Region
2. Metal 3d-printing overview
3. Benefits, challenges and cost-effectiveness of metal AM methods
4. Design for Metal Additive Manufacturing
5. Fatigue of 3D Printed Parts
6. A Readiness Model for Facilitating the Implementation of Metal Additive Manufacturing at SMEs, M. Saterbo and W. D. Solvang, 2023 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)
7. Evaluating the cost competitiveness of metal additive manufacturing - A case study with metal material extrusion, M. Saterbo and W. D. Solvang, CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology. 2023
8. Metal Additive Manufacturing on the Nordic Market - Opportunities and Challenges, Lina Ingesbo Sjöström
9. Firefighting nozzle development
10. LTU AM-design competition
11. Physical seminar series in Sweden
12. PBF Printed part gallery.pdf

Material from other projects:

1. Demonstration parts and designing with DFAM (C3TS)
2. Development of the 20µm layer thickness for AlSi10Mg (C3TS)
3. Heat treatments for AlSi10Mg and 316L (C3TS)
4. Sel - Develop new business models and markets (C3TS)
5. Selecting suitable spare parts for additive manufacturing
6. Report on the ecological and economic potential (AM-ORE)
7. Printing costs example

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I2P From Idea to Metal 3D Printing project videos

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I2P From Idea to Metal 3D Printing project pictures

Demo part collection

SLM Process

DMPD process

Topology optimization process

Topology optimization

Topology optimization

Topology optimized part

Topology optimized part

Printed components

Demo part 2 - internal structure

Demo part 2

Demo part 2. Printed

Demo part 2. Printed

Metal 3D printed bending tools

Formula student car part

One to three splitter-part

Light-weight robot tool frame V1

Light-weight robot tool frame V2

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