We are happy to announce the International Summer School on Additive Manufacturing and Post-Processing with Plasma-Electrolytic Polishing! This event will be held from 01.-07.09.2024 in Freiberg, Germany.

Participants from industry, Ph.D. students, master students, and enthusiastic B.Sc. students are invited to join us for a week of lectures, workshops, and hands-on sessions. Learn all the steps from AM to post-processing, focusing on PeP.

📅 Date: 01.-07.09.2024
📍 Location: Freiberg, Germany.
📜 Topics Covered:

• Additive Manufacturing and multi-material processing
• Plasma-Electrolytic Polishing (PeP)
• Hands-on sessions on AM and PeP
• Advanced PeP process parameters
• Industrial tours focusing on surface treatment technologies

Detailed program of the summer school is available here.

Lunches and coffee breaks are included and free of charge. Travel and accommodation are at your own expense.

Registration is completed. The summer school is fully booked. Thank you all for being interested and you are joining us at this great event.

Join us to enhance your skills and network with professionals in the field of Additive Manufacturing!

For more details, please check the invitation leaflet.

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From 17.6. 2024 to 21. 6. 2024 a preparation event took place in Freiberg (TUBAF) and Chemnitz (Beckmann institute) . Details are in the Events section.

On the 10th and 11th of June 2024, in the idyllic town of Portoroz, SEAMAC partners, together with guests from research institutions and industrial partners joined for the selected presentations and discussions on “Industrial challenges of additive technologies“. (link to IRT press release)

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Plasma electrolytic polishing was presented on a workshop Innovations using plasma technologies in industry, medicine, and agriculture (Inovacije z uporabo plazemskih tehnologij v industriji, medicini in kmetijstvu). Majority of participants were from industry. During the workshop, several groups were formed to brainstorm about the industrial challenges and possible solutions by plasma technologies. On the photo below only three are visible.

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During his visit to Freiberg, SEAMAC coordinator Dr. Valentinčič, along with Dipl.-Ing. Toni Böttger, conducted experiments on polishing functionally graded materials (FGMs) using the Plasma Electrolytic Polishing (PeP) method.

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Every visitor received a sample of a stylized shark, which had undergone partial plasma electrolytic polishing (PeP) to highlight the effect of this innovative technology.

Some of the samples were polished also during the event.

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With the newly acquired expertise, the first set of workpieces already shines.