Next-generation material structuring
Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing (ASLM) is our core structural manufacturing paradigm that completely reimagined the way we design, structure and produce materials.
Combine optimal fabrication efficiency with component performance
Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing (ASLM) combines the best between Additive Manufacturing (AM) and prefabricated component assembly.
While having flexibility and low-tooling advantages, AM has challenges with scalability and efficiency due to overmanipulation of materials.
On the other side, integrated component assembly is a highly economic process, but its complexity and low adaptability requires high capex and high quantities to make economical sense. In addition, structural optimization is often compromized by manufacturability.
ASLM takes best of both. While retaining the flexibility and zero-tooling properties of AM, its ability to assembly large elements in any topology opens up the way for autonomous large scale factories with great economies.
Use simple materials for advanced properties
ASLM only applies material where it rationally adds value, creating inherently optimized structures. Secondly, it avoids manipulating (melting or machining) the volumes of materials that do not need to be affected. This allows the proces to manipulate merely 0.5-1.5% of the total material use in any structure. The process therefore has highly economical energy and materials use and limited process time, which translate into manufacturing cost reductions and component performance increases.
ASLMs' scale extensibility allows for large scale integration of components, removing component assembly steps and drastically reducing tooling.
As any material volume built by ASLM has full freedom of topology, it follows that the behaviour of any structure can be influenced by altering its topology configuration.
This means that performance and behavior of structures can now be influenced outside of material choice or design envelope constraints, opening op economical and scalable access to a new design layer that has been studied by academics in decades.
For instance, material choice becomes less relevant, allowing the choice of low-cost, clean and abundant materials where previously expensive, complex and cumbersome high-performance materials would be used.
In addition, advanced material properties can be built into any volume, unlocking programmable properties, such as vibrations and shock filtering, heat transfer tuning, crash absorption and anisotropic material behaviour.
Built on research, industry and partnerships
ASLM has been battle tested in industry-verticals varying from aerospace, defense & nuclear to automotive and construction. A strong backing by academic papers allows for an ecosystem to emerge that fosters design for highly optimized structures.
High-Performance
Structures built with ASLM are inherently strength-to-weight ratio optimized, and allow for programmable material properties.
Component integration
Extensive component integration reduces part count per vehicle and dependency on diverse machinery and assembly lines.
Manufacturing gains
ASLM promises low CAPEX, decentral autonomous factories that require no tooling, no operators and low energy consumption.
The numbers speak for themselves
ASLM delivers measurable improvements across material efficiency and production speed. These gains come from real-world applications in aerospace and automotive manufacturing.