- Additive Manufacturing (AM) offers great potential for producing complex parts. However, the economical fabrication depends among others on the part height. Hence, the combination of a conventionally manufactured base body and AM offers potential to reduce part costs. This combination is called Hybrid Additive Manufacturing (HAM) and requires additional clamping mechanisms and a positioning system in the laser powder bed fusion process. Concepts for both requirements will be investigated within this paper. In order to increase flexibility and automation a concept for an automated process chain will be developed. The requirements and properties of the process chain will be discussed.
