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AltaSim Gets Grant for Additive Manufacturing
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- AltaSim Technologies has been awarded nearly $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop the technologies that drive additive manufacturing. This adds momentum to a public-private initiative based in Ohio to boost industrial use of modeling and simulation, says Jeff Crompton, a principal of AltaSim.
AltaSim’s award of $149,844 comes through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program that encourages small enterprises to develop and commercialize new technologies. Additive manufacturing features the use of 3-D printing to make a solid object from a digital model. The process uses printers that create a shape by laying down successive layers of material.
“We plan to create a manufacturing application that will use advanced computational tools and high-performance computing to help U.S. manufacturers improve manufacturing methods by increasing the use of additive manufacturing,” Crompton said. “Current methods for developing additive manufacturing methods do not use computational analysis due to the complex physics associated with this manufacturing method.”
AltaSim is a founding partner of the AweSim, which began last summer when the Ohio Third Frontier Commission helped to fund the $6.4 million public/private partnership led by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. The commission awarded the group a $3 million Innovation Platform Program grant to design and deploy easy-to-use advanced manufacturing apps. Client partners are funding the balance of the three-year project.
Under the AweSim partnership, AltaSim Technologies is one of several providers of engineering services that work with clients to develop the applications that in turn leverage the immense computing power of OSC’s supercomputer clusters. The clusters return modeling, simulation data and analyses to clients.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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