Abstract: A unified platform may comprise a combination of independent frameworks that have been integrated and configured to collaboratively operate seamlessly. In some aspects, the unified platform may comprise one or more of an authentication and authorization framework, a dynamic user interface framework, a workflow state management framework, a notification and active data loss and prevention (DLP) engine framework, and an orchestration engine framework. Each of the frameworks included in the unified platform may comprise one or more of the plurality of computing devices executing computer-readable program instructions.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a heat sink comprising: a base plate with an assembly surface for an electronic component; and a cooling structure bonded to the base plate increasing a surface area of the heat sink. The base plate comprises a metal-ceramic composite with a ceramic phase and a metallic phase. The cooling structure comprises a metal. A bond between the cooling structure and the base plate consists of a purely metallic bond between the cooling structure and the metallic phase of the base plate.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for producing an object layer-by-layer using a powder-based 3D printing method by selective fusing of layers of a powder in a powder bed with a selective laser melting process or selective electron beam melting process. At least two successive layers are part of a group. An example method includes, for each group: providing a first layer of the powder; fusing a part of the first layer with first exposure vectors parallel to one another and at a defined spacing; providing a second layer of powder; and fusing a part of the second layer with second exposure vectors arranged at an offset parallel to the first exposure vectors. The exposure vectors of successive groups are rotated by an angle relative to one another.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for additive manufacturing of a building structure on using a simulation comprising: accessing a data set for the building structure describing the building structure in layers; calculating a global heat development in previous layers based a building history and heat input by an energy beam; determining a local heat development in a vicinity of the heat input; determining the process control based on the global and the local heat development; loading correction measures from a database; and assigning the correction measures locally to individual vectors of a tool path of the energy beam. At least one mass integral is calculated for individual vectors of the tool path. The measures are determined on the basis of a comparison of the calculated mass integral with mass integrals stored in the database.

Abstract: A computing system may include an access engine and a toolpath reordering engine. The access engine may be configured to access an original layer toolpath for slice of a 3D CAD object as well as a heat criticality measure for the original layer toolpath. The heat criticality measure may specify a heat impact for different points on the multiple toolpath segments of the original layer toolpath for the 3D printing of the physical part using the original layer toolpath. The toolpath reordering engine may be configured to reorder the multiple toolpath segments into a modified layer toolpath, and the modified layer toolpath may have a heat criticality measure with a lesser heat impact on the physical part than the heat criticality measure for the original layer toolpath.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for detecting and updating duplicate data records are provided. The system may be configured to detect and retrieve duplicate data records in a data storage and generate a data duplicate reference set comprising the duplicate data records. The duplicate data records may be grouped into common data duplicate groups within the data duplicate reference set. The system may elect one of the duplicate data records from one of the data duplicate groups to be an ACE record. The ACE record may be enriched using the remaining duplicate data records. Data from each duplicate data record may then be overwritten using the ACE record data to ensure that all of the duplicate data records comprise the same data. All of the duplicate data records may be cross-linked in the data storage to ensure consistency and data integrity throughout the data duplicate group.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to powder-bed-based additive manufacturing processes. Embodiments thereof may include methods for producing a component from a superalloy. For example, a method for producing a component comprising a superalloy may include: preheating a powder bed comprising particles of a core material coated by a ceramic layer, the core material including alloying constituents of the superalloy and building up the component layer by layer in a powder bed by melting particles with an energy beam. The powder bed may be heated to a temperature below a melting point of the core material before the particles are melted.

Abstract: Various embodiments may include a method for the generative manufacturing of a component on a building platform comprising: applying particles of a building material layer by layer to the building platform and then to the component under construction; fusing the applied particles with an energy beam; and heating the component under construction with a heating device associated with the building platform. A reference temperature Tr for each layer produced and a tolerance range for the reference temperature Tr are defined. A heating power of the heating device is lowered as sequential layers are fused to the extent that the tolerance range for a reference temperature Tr is maintained in a last layer produced.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for additive manufacturing of a building structure on using a simulation comprising: accessing a data set for the building structure describing the building structure in layers; calculating a global heat development in previous layers based a building history and heat input by an energy beam; determining a local heat development in a vicinity of the heat input; determining the process control based on the global and the local heat development; loading correction measures from a database; and assigning the correction measures locally to individual vectors of a tool path of the energy beam. At least one mass integral is calculated for individual vectors of the tool path. The measures are determined on the basis of a comparison of the calculated mass integral with mass integrals stored in the database.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a heat sink comprising: a base plate with an assembly surface for an electronic component; and a cooling structure bonded to the base plate increasing a surface area of the heat sink. The base plate comprises a metal-ceramic composite with a ceramic phase and a metallic phase. The cooling structure comprises a metal. A bond between the cooling structure and the base plate consists of a purely metallic bond between the cooling structure and the metallic phase of the base plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining production-related shape deviations (?l,i) and stresses in a construction (11) produced by means of an additive production method, which construction is produced by solidifying construction material in successive layers (12). The invention further relates to a use of said method to produce corrected production data (19) and to the application of said production data in an additive production system. The invention further relates to a computer-readable data carrier and to a computer program for performing said method and to a simulation in which such a computer program can run. In the method, superlayers (13) are used in order to reduce the computational complexity of the simulation.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for evaluating colliding data records are provided. The system may ingest one or more data inputs from one or more data sources. The system may parse the data inputs and determine whether the data is preexisting in the system. In response to the data input and stored data at least partially conflicting (e.g., colliding), the system may generate a candidate dataset based on the data input and the stored data. The candidate dataset may comprise two or more data candidates comprising permutations of the data values in the data input and the stored data. The system may evaluate each data candidate, score each date candidate based on the evaluation, and determine the data candidate having the greatest score.

Abstract: A data enrichment environment using blockchain is disclosed. A client may interact with the data enrichment environment to generate an enrichment smart contract and deploy the enrichment smart contract to the blockchain. The enrichment smart contract may comprise data indicating the enrichment inquiry. One or more solvers may interact with the data enrichment environment to submit proposed enrichment solutions based on the enrichment inquiry. One or more observers may interact with the data enrichment environment to review and vote on the proposed enrichment solutions. The data enrichment environment may evaluate the proposed enrichment solutions based on contract conditions.

Abstract: A measuring probe head having a housing, which defines a receiving space and at least one coolant fluid supply channel fluidically connected thereto, and at least one sensor which is received, or is capable of being received, in the receiving space, wherein at least one partial region of the housing enclosing the receiving space has a porosity which defines a plurality of coolant fluid passage openings.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to coating a carrier component by means of cold gas dynamic spraying. For example, a method for coating a carrier component may include: laying a mask with an opening on the component; depositing a material through the opening to completely fill up the mask opening; removing any material located above the upper side to form a flat surface even with the upper side of the mask; laying a second mask on the first mask; depositing the material again; removing any deposited material located above the upper side of the second mask to form a flat surface even with the upper side of the second mask; repeating layers of additional masks and material deposition until the deposited material reaches a required thickness on the carrier component; and after completion of the coating to the required thickness, removing the masks.

Abstract: Various embodiments include methods for the powder-bed-based additive manufacturing of a workpiece comprising: manufacturing the workpiece layer by layer in a powder bed, including solidifying a respective uppermost layer of the powder bed using an energy beam. During the solidification of the respective uppermost layer of the powder bed, analyzing a geometry of previously solidified layers below the respective uppermost layer. The method may include reducing an average power over time introduced by the energy beam per unit of area of the powder bed with application of correction parameters if the heat dissipation into the previously solidified layers is reduced in dependence on the workpiece depth available below the energy beam.

Abstract: A component is produced in layers by laser melting. A molten pool is created in a bed of powder by a working laser beam. Further auxiliary laser beams are set to a power density that merely slows down the cooling of the material in one zone, but do not cause any renewed melting. In this way, the cooling rate of the microstructure can be set so that an advantageous structural formation develops. This allows for example the mechanical properties of the component produced to be advantageously improved without downstream heat treatments.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a cooling apparatus comprising: a thermal interface for a heat source to be cooled; a thermal pipe with a first phase change medium; and a latent heat store with a second phase change medium. The first phase change medium and the second phase change medium are contained in respective volumes separated from one another. Heat of the heat source, at the thermal interface, transfers into a heat absorption zone of the thermal pipe. A melting temperature of the second phase change medium is greater than an evaporation temperature of the first phase change medium.

Abstract: A data enrichment environment using blockchain is disclosed. A client may interact with the data enrichment environment to generate an enrichment smart contract and deploy the enrichment smart contract to the blockchain. The enrichment smart contract may comprise data indicating the enrichment inquiry. One or more solvers may interact with the data enrichment environment to submit proposed enrichment solutions based on the enrichment inquiry. One or more observers may interact with the data enrichment environment to review and vote on the proposed enrichment solutions. The data enrichment environment may evaluate the proposed enrichment solutions based on contract conditions.

Abstract: Various embodiments may include a method for the generative manufacturing of a component on a building platform comprising: applying particles of a building material layer by layer to the building platform and then to the component under construction; fusing the applied particles with an energy beam; and heating the component under construction with a heating device associated with the building platform. A reference temperature Tr for each layer produced and a tolerance range for the reference temperature Tr are defined. A heating power of the heating device is lowered as sequential layers are fused to the extent that the tolerance range for a reference temperature Tr is maintained in a last layer produced.