Friday August 16^th, 2024 
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:30 - 9:30 a.m. - EMPOWR3D™ (Prescott, Wisconsin) – Custom Materials, Custom Solutions for AM

Presenters:
Jill Ferguson, Ph.D. - Executive Director of Technology Commercialization, Interfacial Consultants – a Nagase Group Company
Jeremy Smith – Senior Manager, Corporate Innovation Office – Nagase Holdings America

Presentation Abstract:

Combining over 15 years of material development expertise in additive manufacturing with a new investment in more than 50 open material systems, Interfacial Consultants’ EMPOWR3D™ additive manufacturing services provide custom materials development, tuning, printing, testing, and more. Jill and Jeremy will share some case studies highlighting how EMPOWR3D™ supports materials and applications development for customers utilizing open materials systems.

9:30 – 9:45 – Networking Break  

9:45 – 10:45 – Additive Manufacturing in the Food Industry: Principles for Adoption

Presenter:  Dr. Todd Menna – Engineering Manager, Element Materials Technology

Presentation Abstract:

Additive manufacturing is now present in virtually every industry. One that has not, however, seen much development is the food industry. While printing of food has been around for quite a while, what about the materials that are used to transport and contain food? What processes are amenable to adoption? What tests are required to qualify a material or product? This presentation will review and answer these questions, outlining the basic physical and chemical properties necessary to allow for use in the food industry, as well as defining the testing required to qualify a material or product as safe for use with food.

10:45 – 11:00 - Networking Break

11:00 – noon – Exentis - Additive Metal Screen-Printing Technology  

Presenter:  Eric Bert - President, Exentis North America, Inc.

Presentation Abstract: 

The Exentis Additive Screen-Printing Technology Platform is a unique 3D Additive Manufacturing process that cost-effectively delivers parts with ultra-fine structures, in mass-production volumes, using a wide range of materials – including metals, ceramics, polymers, and pharmaceutical materials, sustainably. Feedstocks can be made from nearly any material that is available in powder form, which are then converted into pastes. Production systems which use conventional high-resolution screen tools, precision optically driven layer alignment, high-speed screen-printing hardware, and automated industrial material handling to deposit material layer by layer to form green body parts, which are then sintered, cured, or dried.

12:00 – 1:00 - Networking Lunch

Please RSVP to anewente@msoe.edu so we can get an accurate head count.