High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Ressource-efficient hot sheet metal forming by innovative die cooling
with laser beam melted tooling components
B. Mueller, M. Gebauer, S. Polster & R. Neugebauer
Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, Chemnitz/Dresden, Germany
R. Malek & M. Kotzian
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany
R. Hund
BRAUN CarTec GmbH, Schwalbach, Germany
ABSTRACT: Additive manufacturing for tooling applications has seen a new boost with emergence of laser
beam melting, a technology being capable of layer manufacturing completely dense parts and tool inserts in
standard high-alloyed tool steel. Moulding applications have been the first in making ...