The automotive trade is at a turning level. Electrification, digitalization, and sustainability pressures are reworking the design, manufacturing, and supply of automobiles. Additive manufacturing sits on the middle of this transformation, providing flexibility in provide chains, enabling lighter and extra environment friendly elements, and unlocking new ranges of customization.
Our on-line occasion, AMA: Automotive and Mobility, brings collectively the voices shaping this subsequent period: software program leaders, OEM innovators, supplies pioneers, and manufacturing entrepreneurs. From production-ready slicing software program and large-format pellet extrusion to digital provide chain intelligence and AM-enabled electrification, this system will showcase how additive is shifting from prototyping to revenue.
This version options senior leaders, together with Alexander Oster (Autodesk), Marc Travesset (SEAT), Ian Plummer (Autotrader), Dr. Ahmed Selema (USP3D), Andrew Sartorelli (Synera), Henri de Chassey (Wabtec), Mahendran Reddy (Fehrmann MaterialsX), Lukas Pelzer (Layer Efficiency), Mitchell Barnes (RYSE 3D), Ruben Meuth (3D Spark), and Rob Lent (Imaginative and prescient Miner).
Collectively, they may look at the true enterprise impression of additive manufacturing in mobility, from fixing obsolescence challenges and creating resilient spare elements provide, to integrating AM into EV drivetrains, scaling cost-competitive manufacturing, and constructing international ecosystems for innovation.
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Alexander Oster, Director Additive Manufacturing, Autodesk Inc.
Alexander Oster is Director of Additive Manufacturing within the Autodesk Fusion Product growth group, software program utilized by hundreds of thousands of engineers on the earth. On this position, his group is chargeable for creating Additive Manufacturing instruments to assist prospects take advantage of out of their machines, but in addition works on bigger Manufacturing matters like CAM Automation and the developer ecosystem.
Alexander was co-founder of the Additive Manufacturing software program firm Netfabb GmbH, acquired by Autodesk in 2015. Previous to Netfabb, he served as CTO of FIT AG, one of many largest AM service bureaus in Germany.
Marc Travesset, Digital Manufacturing Instruments-Additive Manufacturing, SEAT
Marc Travesset brings an end-to-end perspective on additive manufacturing throughout the automotive worth chain, from idea and design to manufacturing and integration. At SEAT, he focuses on aligning digital and AM applied sciences with actual enterprise wants, driving scalable innovation throughout merchandise, processes, and other people utilizing his background as a Chemical Engineer with a Grasp’s in Innovation and Digital Transformation.
Ian Plummer, Chief Business Director, Autotrader
Ian joined Auto Dealer in 2017, having spent over 20 years within the automotive trade in senior international roles throughout the automotive ecosystem together with each producers and retailer teams. At present, he heads up Auto Dealer’s relationships with their most senior companions in retailers, producers, lenders and media alike to make sure Auto Dealer’s expertise and experience delivers worth and income for companions in each the brand new and used automobile house. He’s additionally on the Board of the Institute of the Motoring Business, sits on the President’s Committee of the Automotive Management Community, and is an everyday media commentator in addition to being an lively lobbyist for the insurance policies required to make sure the electrical transition is equitable and accessible.
Ahmed Selema, CTO and Know-how Director, USP3D
Dr. Selema is a visionary innovator in good and sustainable manufacturing applied sciences driving innovation sooner or later electrical motors.
With a deep technological experience in electrical machines, he at the moment works as CTO & expertise director of USP3D, the place he leads the corporate’s innovation technique. As a technology-driven fanatic, he brings a uncommon mixture of hands-on engineering and a robust entrepreneurial mindset, targeted on reworking concepts into scalable, real-world options.
With over a ten years of expertise in electrical engineering and additive manufacturing, he has been on the forefront of creating next-generation options for electrical machines recognized for his or her market-leading energy density, effectivity, and sustainability. His experience extends to pioneering manufacturing processes, together with a number of technological contributions within the space of sustainable electrical machines, 3D printed windings, and superior thermal administration.
Andrew Sartorelli, Product Administration and Software program Partnership Lead, Synera
Andrew Sartorelli is Product Administration and Software program Partnership Lead at Synera, the place he delivers options to buyer challenges by way of each inside growth and strategic partnerships. All through his 15-year journey throughout engineering software program leaders—Autodesk, nTop, Hexagon, and now Synera—he has advanced from hands-on technical problem-solver to strategic product visionary, creating a novel potential to translate buyer wants into efficient software program options.Â
His engineering basis (BSc in Mechanical Engineering, College of New Hampshire) mixed together with his progressive expertise throughout Technical Assist, Software Engineering, and Product Administration has outfitted him with the right mix of technical experience and enterprise acumen to drive leads to the worldwide engineering software program panorama.
Henri de Chassey, Spares & Buying and selling / Additive Manufacturing ENG Supervisor, Wabtec
With a mechanical engineering background and dealing within the railway trade since 2011, Henri began in strategies and operations, and has dealt with additive manufacturing initiatives for 8 years now.
He’s chargeable for the Obsolescence administration at Wabtec Transit and since 2021, following all 3D printing initiatives (OE & CS) for Wabtec Transit as a response to obsolescence points, but in addition supporting their prospects and manufacturing websites, from their requests to the drawings validation, manufacturing, and elements validation steps.
Mahendran Reddy, Senior Vice President World Ecosystems, Fehrmann MaterialsX
Mahendran Reddy is a Design, Know-how, and Innovation skilled who has leveraged his 25+ years of expertise to construct and uncover alternatives within the artistic industries each within the personal and public sectors. Keen about connecting individuals, organisations, geographies, and industries to discover and advance new expertise corresponding to Additive Manufacturing and AI.
Primarily based in Hamburg, Germany, he’s a key member of the Fehrmann Tech group’s administration, bringing his wealth of information within the artistic and manufacturing industries in each the personal and public sectors to construct a value-added ecosystem of shoppers, researchers, and collaborators to speed up the worldwide footprint of Fehrmann Tech Group. He serves because the Deputy Chairman of IAMHH (Industrialized Additive Manufacturing Hub Hamburg) in addition to being an Ambassador of the Synthetic Intelligence Centre in Hamburg.
Lukas Pelzer, Managing Director, Layer Efficiency
Lukas Pelzer efficiently studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen College, specializing in manufacturing engineering. He accomplished his subsequent diploma in automation engineering with honors.
He has been concerned in additive manufacturing since 2014 and led the additive manufacturing working group on the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen College from 2018 to 2023. As a part of his analysis, he investigated large-area, robot-based additive manufacturing, recycling potential by way of 3D printing, and optimized path planning algorithms to enhance course of and product high quality.
He has been a co-founder and managing director of Layer Efficiency GmbH since July 2024. Layer Efficiency develops award-winning slicing software program for the manufacturing of high-quality ultimate elements utilizing additive manufacturing.
Mitchell Barnes, CEO, RYSE 3D Ltd
Mitchell Barnes is the founder and CEO of RYSE 3D Ltd and LANDR 3D Ltd, award-winning UK producers pushing the boundaries of production-grade 3D printing. A King’s Award recipient, he specialises in scalable, sustainable manufacturing—creating pellet extrusion techniques and large-format printers that ship injection moulding–stage prices with shorter lead instances and nil waste. Mitchell works with main OEMs to drive UK manufacturing ahead, combining innovation, effectivity, and engineering excellence.
Ruben Meuth, CEO, 3D Spark GmbH
Ruben Meuth, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of 3D Spark GmbH, is on the forefront of the corporate’s mission to assist firms obtain sustainable manufacturing and procurement by minimizing waste in time, handbook labour, and prices.
Rob Lent, Co-Founder / COO, Imaginative and prescient Miner
Rob’s imaginative and prescient for useful 3D printing has change into his ardour, and mixed together with his background in Advertising and marketing, buyer relations, and promoting, he’s dedicated to creating additive manufacturing an accessible device for companies and shoppers alike. With an array of sensible expertise in useful 3D printing, with hundreds of hours printing high-temperature plastics, Rob is devoted to serving to firms get the suitable instruments and coaching to harness the ability of 3D applied sciences throughout the board.
Xavier Garcia Montolio, PhD Candidate, SEAT
Xavier Garcia Montolio is a PhD Candidate specializing in 3D metallic printing for spare elements within the automotive trade at SEAT. With a background in automotive engineering and a specialization in supplies science and engineering, his analysis focuses on metallic additive manufacturing applied sciences, significantly powder-based processes. His work contributes to advancing sustainable and environment friendly manufacturing strategies throughout the automotive sector, addressing challenges in spare half manufacturing by way of progressive 3D printing options. Xavier is actively concerned in bridging tutorial analysis with industrial purposes, aiming to boost the reliability and scalability of steel additive manufacturing.
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