‘We want to give people the tools that gets them from initial design to final design.’ - Onome Scott-Amuakpor
Summary
Hyphen Innovations will look to develop and commercialise a software package that would provide users better access to its inherent damping via additive manufacturing processes (i-DAMP) technology. Voids are placed in areas of the part that avoid high stresses, with the unfused powder within them performing the same role as a pendulum in buildings that are located in regions susceptible to earthquakes. But as it looks to expand into these additional markets, there is recognition from CEO Onome Scott-Emuakpor that the company will need to alter how it currently serves its clients. “Right now, if an aerospace company is interested in this, they have to reach out to us and then we’re involved in the development process,” Scott-Emuakpor said on this week’s episode of the Additive Insight podcast. So, ultimately, we want to not necessarily be in the equation, and we want to give people the tools that gets them from initial design to final design.” Recently, Hyphen Innovations completed a US Air Force project that demonstrated if they additively manufactured a direct replacement part, with no changes to the exterior geometry, using i-DAMP, the weight different was less than 1% but the durability of the component saw a 10X improvement – 1 million cycles vs 10 million cycles.