Track: Manufacturing

Abstract

Metals are important materials in engineering applications and the additive manufacturing is a set of processes and technologies presents in Industry 4.0. The direct production of metallic components by manufacturing additive is an interesting alternative for organizations add values to components and finished products. This article presents an overview on the metallic parts direct production by additive manufacturing. An analysis of the literature was conducted to investigate advanced metals and processes of additive manufacturing used to produce metallic components, specifically selective laser melting (SLM), selective laser sintering (SLS) and electron beam melting (EBM). The mechanism of layer fully melting and solidification process allow that SLM and EBM produce components with superior mechanical properties than SLS process, considering the same metallic material in manufacturing.