Special Interest Conference: Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing
6th – 9th October 2025
Programme
Our joint Special Interest Conference between euspen and ASPE on Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing is held over 3 days and the daily programme is detailed below. Please note that all times are shown in Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Monday 6th October 2025
14:00-15:30 Mini workshop: Characterization of advanced materials by traceable X-ray spectrometry, Dr. Burkhard Beckoff, PTB 16:00-17:30 Mini workshop: Dedicated machine tools for Precision AM, Prof. Dr. Julian Polte, TU Berlin |
Tuesday 7th October 2025
Time (CEST) | Programme |
08:00 – 08:45 | Meeting Registration |
08:45 – 09:00 | Welcome address: John S. Taylor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US / Dr. Dirk Oberschmidt, TU Berlin, DE |
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome address: Vice Dean for Research: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Rethmeier, TU Berlin, DE |
09:15 – 09:45 | Keynote 1: Unlocking the Power of Industrial 3D Printing Dr.-Ing. Tina Schlingmann, EMEA at EOS GmbH Introduced by Dirk Oberschmidt |
09:45 – 11:30
Chair: John Taylor / Dirk Oberschmidt
| Session 1: Design for manufacturing and precision applications 09:45 Session keynote: Performance of additively manufactured surface ground porous metal aerostatic bearings, Onni Leutonen, Aalto University 10:10 Improving the Inflow and Outflow of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces for Additively Manufactured Heat Exchangers, Janek Fasselt Fraunhofer IPK 10:25 Discussion |
10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee break & poster viewing |
10:50 Additive manufacturing for the repair of gas turbine blades with internal cooling channels: A sealing approach to prevent powder penetration, Tahmineh Naderi, Technische Universität Berlin 11:05 Validation of Melt Pool Prediction in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Using OpenFOAM, Mahmoud Al-Rashidi, University of Leeds 11:20 Discussion | |
11:30 – 12:55 | Session 2: Integrating AM into a holistic manufacturing process 11:30 Session keynote: Improving Surface Finish of Stainless Steel AM Parts using a Remelt Strategy, Liam Blunt, University of Huddersfield 11:55 Recycling of aluminium bronze chips for additive laser directed energy deposition, Michael Rethmeier, TU Berlin 12:10 Robot-based chiseling for the removal of support structures from PBF-LB/M manufactured Haynes 282, Gero Esser, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK 12:25 Post Processing of additive manufactured parts using abrasive magnetorheological fluids, Christian Lahoda, TU Berlin 12:40 Discussion |
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch & Networking |
14:00 – 14:30 | Keynote 2: AM in rail: print to drive and get rid of physical warehouses Stefanie Brickwede, Managing Director at MGA Introduced by Dirk Oberschmidt |
14:30 – 17:15
Chair: Dirk Oberschmidt
| Session 3: Dimensional accuracy for manufacturing and precision applications 14:30 Enhancing Geometric Accuracy in 2PP through Voxel Geometry-Based CAD Design Adjustments, Eugenia Bosler, TU Berlin 14:45 Comparison of PBF-LB fatigue bar surfaces measured with laser confocal microscopy and X-ray micro CT using both traditional and neural network based reconstructions, Edwin Glaubitz, Colorado School of Mines 15:00 Design of a r-θ Projection Micro Stereolithography System for Large Area Optics Fabrication, Michael Cullinan, The University of Texas at Austin 15:15 Discussion |
15:30 – 16:15 | Coffee break & poster viewing |
Session 3: Dimensional accuracy for manufacturing and precision applications (cont.) 16:15 Comparing high-performance 2PP to competing processes – a take on precision, accuracy and throughput, Anna-Maria Fuchsberger, UpNano GmbH 16:30 Modeling the Interaction Effects of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process Variables on Surface Texture to Enable Functional Tolerancing, M M Towfiqur Rahman, UNC Charlotte 16:45 Directional surface finishing of additively manufactured components by dynamic machining with abrasive non-Newtonian fluids, Niklas Maschke, TU Berlin 17:00 Discussion | |
17:30 –22:00 | Walk to Museum for a tour of Classic Cars and Networking Dinner at Classic Remise |
Wednesday 8th October 2025
Time (CEST) | Programme |
08:30 – 09:00 | Keynote 3: Optimizing 3D and 4D printing by two-photon polymerization Professor Ada-Ioana Bunea, Associate Professor at DTU Nanolab Introduced by John Taylor |
09:00 – 11:10
Chair: Christian Haase | Session 4: Process physics, simulation and optimisation 09:00 Low-Energy Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Tin-Bronze Alloys for the Production of Grinding Tools, Duc Anh Khuc, TU Berlin 09:15 Validation and optimization of powder nozzle designs for DED-Machines using coupled CFD-DEM approaches, Sergio Lezama, IWF, TU Berlin 09:30 Powder Spreading and Flow Characterization in Additive Manufacturing: Insights from the NIST Powder Spreading Testbed (PST), Jesse Redford, NIST 09:45 Discussion |
10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break & poster viewing |
Session 4: Process physics, simulation and optimisation (cont.) 10:30 Additive Manufactured, Topology-Optimized Grippers for Collaborative Robotics in Hairpin Stator Prototyping and Assembly, Onur Senyüz, TU Berlin 10:45 Tailoring LPBF Process Strategies for Al₂O₃ Ceramics: From Single Tracks to Cube Fabrication, Geethapriyan Thangamani, Politecnico di Torino 11:00 Discussion | |
11:15 – 11:45 | Keynote 4: Printing Metal in Space: In Orbit Demonstration of 3D Metal Additive Manufacturing Rob Postema, ESA – European Space Agency Introduced by Liam Blunt |
11:45 – 12:15 | Lessons learned and future challenges for ESA – Audience interaction with possible solutions to address the challenges |
12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch & Networking |
13:45 – 15:15 | Laboratory tour of TU Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee break |
15:45 – 17:15 | Session 5: Poster pitch presentations – (5 mins per poster) |
Chair: Dishi Phillips
| P5.01 Local evaluation of metal laser powder bed fusion layer-related characteristics using a metrological XCT-based methodology, Filippo Zanini, University of Padova (AM25103) P5.02 Impact of 3D printed lightweight structures on the surface quality of diamond turned aluminum mirrors, Felix Zeller, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (AM25107) P5.04 Optimized Light Source Modelling and Simulation to Match Actual Intensity-Angle Light Profile, Mojtaba Ahmadiehkhanesar, University of Nottingham (AM25124) P5.06 Factors affecting measurement of cure depth and excess width for ceramic vat photopolymerization, Nellie Pestian, Colorado School of Mines (AM25129) P5.07 Standardisation of Mechanical Testing for Metal AM – Load bearing area determination using surface texture correction for PBF-LB tensile specimens, Theresa Buchenau, Fraunhofer IFAM (Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials) (AM25134) P5.08 Comparison of laser powder bed fusion fatigue bar surfaces measured with laser confocal microscopy and X-ray micro CT using both traditional and neural network based reconstructions, Edwin Glaubitz, Colorado School of Mines (AM25143) P5.09 Assessing Porosity and Interfacial Bonding in Dual‑Metal Additive Manufacturing via Industrial Computed Tomography, Huan Shao, Politecnico di Milano (AM25109) P5.10 Benchmarking of Geometric Accuracy in PBF-LB/M: Approach to expand VDI 3405 for AlSi10Mg, Mergim Krasniqi, PTB (AM25113) P5.11 Understanding the next layer effect of defects in laser powder bed fusion processing of IN625, Jesse Redford, NIST (AM25135) P5.12 Impact of association criteria specifications on inspection of hole features in laser powder bed fusion, Jesse Redford, NIST (AM25148) P5.13 Influence of process parameters on the quality of 316l stainless steel components fabricated by metal Fused Filament Fabrication, Altina Myrtaj, TU Berlin (AM25147) P5.14 Sustainable dual-side deposition to mitigate substrate deformation in Directed Energy Deposition (DED), Neel Kamal Gupta, Institute for Machine Elements, Engineering Design and Manufacturing (IMKF), Technische Universität Freiberg (AM25152) |
17:30 | Day 2 Close – free evening |
Thursday 9th October 2025
Time (CEST) | Programme |
09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote 5: Additive manufacturing of pure tungsten lattice structures by laser powder-bed-fusion process for Fusion application Dr Miguel Zavala-Arredondo, UK Atomic Energy Authority Dr Ahmed S.B. Tawfik, University of Huddersfield Introduced by Jason Fox |
09:45 – 11:30
Chair: Jaime Berez
| Session 6: Metrology 09:30 State-of-the-Art: Calibrations and Experimental Results from Laser-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing Testbeds at NIST 09:55 Improving X-ray CT porosity analysis towards enhanced in-situ monitoring and real-time defect prediction in metal laser powder bed fusion, Nicolò Bonato, University of Padova 10:10 Experimental investigation of the nonlinear response of a research-oriented fringe projection measuring system 10:25 Discussion |
10:35 – 10:50 | Coffee break & poster viewing |
Session 6: Metrology (cont.) 10:50 Dimensional measurement using X-ray Computed Tomography for additive manufacturing in standardization 11:05 Real-Time Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing Using Fringe Projection Techniques, Samanta Piano, University of Nottingham 11:20 Monitoring packing density and binder saturation in binder jet 3D printing via fringe projection profilometry, Md Jahangir Alam, University of Pittsburgh online 11:35 Discussion | |
12:00 – 13:10 | Lunch & Networking |
13:15 – 15:30
Chair: Julian Polte
| Session 7: AM machines and process control 13:15 Hybrid Optimization for Enhanced Process Control in Fused Filament Fabrication of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polyamide Composites, Amir Abdullah, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) – online 13:30 A Framework enabling In-Situ Microdosing of Secondary Materials for Spatially Targeted Multi-Material PBF-LB/M process, Sohan Acharya, Institute for Machine Tools, University of Stuttgart 13:45 Analysis and understanding of effective trajectories in LPBF additive manufacturing process: application to skywriting trajectories, 14:00 Discussion |
Session 7: AM machines and process control (cont.) 14:15 Evaluating the Sensitivity of Optical Tomography and Melt Pool Monitoring Systems to LPBF Process Parameters, Kamel Ettaieb, Framatome 14:30 Deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based closed-loop control of PinVPP: an initial case study of pillar printing, Yiquan Wang, University of Pittsburgh 14:45 Discussion | |
15:00
| Closing remarks by Organising committee Dr. John Taylor, Prof. Dirk Oberschmidt, Prof Liam Blunt Conference ends |