Defense giant Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has partnered with software leader Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) to release a breakthrough metal additive manufacturing process simulation software solution that helps predict thermal history (or heat flux) and defects at the scan vector and powder layer (meso) scale. As described by Hexagon’s director of global business development, Jeff Robertson, “the solver will run part level simulations in minutes – many orders of magnitude faster than existing solver technologies.”
Combining technologies from Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which empowers customers to put data to work, and Raytheon’s engine maker business, Pratt and Whitney, the new software will predict defects before the expensive and time-consuming printing process begins. This analysis will help designers and engineers evaluate the print…
