To fully leverage AM’s advantages, a redesign of your components is often required to enhance their functionality, weight reduction, and overall performance.
At Prima Additive, we provide expert guidance to help you optimize your designs for additive manufacturing, ensuring your parts maintain mechanical integrity while benefiting from AM-specific features such as lattice structures, weight reduction,and component consolidation.
With our Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) expertise, you can go beyond simple prototyping, revolutionizing how your parts are designed and produced.
Design optimization for additive manufacturing
Our design support services empower you to create innovative, high-performance parts, ensuring maximum efficiency and scalability in production.
The Design Optimization Process
We follow a structured approach to ensure your components are fully optimized for additive manufacturing:
STEP 1: COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION & FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
- Feasibility assessment and performance evaluation
- Investigation of new functionalities and component integration
- Redesign for improved manufacturability and efficiency
STEP 2: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
- Mechanical and thermal simulations to optimize weight, rigidity, and durability
- Design repeatability validation for scalable production
- Performance-based optimization for load-bearing structures and critical components
STEP 3: CAD MODEL CREATION AND VALIDATION
- Development of optimized CAD models
- Validation and testing for process reliability
- Print strategy development for seamless AM production
By integrating cutting-edge design principles and advanced simulations, we maximize the benefits of additive manufacturing for your production needs.
Why choose Prima Additive’s design support?
✅ Specialized expertise – Our engineers understand the intricacies of AM and guide you in optimizing your designs for performance and manufacturability.
✅ Tailored solutions – We provide custom design strategies that align with your industry requirements and specific production goals.
✅ Reduced costs and improved efficiency – By leveraging AM-driven assembly reduction and topology optimization, we help streamline production and cut material waste.
✅ Accelerated innovation – Our approach enables faster prototyping, better testing, and quicker time-to-market, ensuring competitive advantages in your sector.
With Prima Additive’s design support, you don’t just adopt AM: you transform your production process for greater efficiency, scalability, and success.
