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Car maker BMW group opened €15 million Additive manufacturing facilities in Oberschleissheim, just outside Munich .
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The facilities will be utilized as central hub for production, R&D and training purpose. BMW is already leader in industrial scaled 3D printing and printed more than 3,00,000 automobile components last year. The Additive Manufacturing campus allows 80 workers running about 50 industrial AM system, including metals and plastic.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, BMW AG Board Member Milan Nedeljković said: “Additive manufacturing is already an integral part of our worldwide production system today, and an established part of our digitalisation strategy. In the future, new technologies of this kind will make production even faster and allow us to benefit even more fully from the potential of toolless manufacturing.”
BMW has been involved in 3D printing for nearly 30 years. First prototype part for concept card in 1991 before using AM for small series production in 2010. Metal powder bed fusion was used to print water pump wheels for DTM race cars. Since then, the company has 3D printed parts for the Rolls-Royes Phantom, BMW i8 Roaster etc cars.
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