With Additive Manufacturing, the full recipe to manufacture a part is sharable and storable. This is one of the key drivers of On Demand AM, taking place at multiple digital production sites, distributed around the world, closer to customers. But this will only be possible when companies are sure that their design and production data remain secure. The SDAM Alliance wants to make an active contribution to develop solutions that improve data management for AM and lend end-to-end visibility to all its processes.
2023 | Next development projectsSecure AM supply chainsAccelerating the development of these chains for producing (spare) parts in specific industries, to start with participating in a pilot project in Duisburg port . …read more…Sustainable AM supply chains for partsDefining a roadmap to enable these AM
supply chains to capture, aggregate, store, disseminate, access, process and share product carbon footprint (PCF) data for (spare) parts. …read more…How to find Partners for your Project Ideas?The broad membership of the SDAM Alliance is a unique tool to generate new contacts to develop projects and ideas and assess collaboration opportunities for funding, research, development and innovation. …read more…2021-2022 | First collaborative project
Protection of existing and new IP rights
The outcome was that on-demand AM will be influenced substantially by the fact that the people printing the parts are not necessarily the people who own
the rights to them. …read more…
Over 2021 and 2022 the following 152 companies and (academic) research institutions contributed:
On Demand sustainable manufacturing comes together in SDAM Alliance
Inspired by the collaborative nature of distributed digital manufacturing, more than 150 participants from the AM world are already working together in this coalition. This great diversity in partnership lends tremendous strength to the partners collaborating in the SDAM Alliance and the AM industry it serves.
Adoption of AM for true sustainable on-demand industrial manufacturingIndustries should get the parts anytime, anywhere with the help of a certified and qualified global supplier network. Such networks should manage the complete end-to-end sustainable AM production, integrating all engineering and printing parties, while protecting IP rights and providing carbon footprint data.More work need to be done to ensure secure and sustainable AM supply chainsThere are a number of new and inherent risks associated with a supply chain enabled by data. It is inevitable to apply data security, data traceability and end-to-end interoperability between carbon footprint data, 3D manufacturing data and part manufacturing technology. PARTNERS MAY OPT TO WORK TOGETHER ON THE PROJECTS AND THE SPECIFIC COLLABORATION TOPICS.
1. Commercial Project
AM Supply Chain for Inland Shipping & Transport
- Serving the port infrastructure, ships and trains processed
- Pilot in Port of Duisburg (Germany) – world’s largest inland port
2. Sustainability Project
Making AM Greener
- How to exchange trustworthy product carbon footprint (PCF) data
- How to gather and analyze data to make am more sustainable
3. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
- Glossary of Distributed Manufacturing Terms
- Connecting the AM Industry with Research and Academic Organisations
In collaboration with:
