OverHiPP will identify, develop and optimise materials and solutions for overprinting features, inserts and conductive materials onto organo sheets and other components, using 5-axis 3D printing technology, coupled with high performance polymers. This will offer a new manufacturing process for many low to medium volume applications, offering improved design options and efficiency savings over existing processes.

By enabling Additive Manufacturing (AM) parts in highly regulated sectors, DAEDALUS will help make the UK the place to manufacture the products that will drive the future of the world, addressing the UK Grand Challenges \[1\] (future electric aircraft for urban mobility and clean growth, and medical devices for ageing society).The adoption of AM in these sectors (e.g. aerospace, space, oil & gas and medical) is hindered by part quality issues, process repeatability and reliability, traceability, scalability and limited availability of AM standards. These challenges are inherently linked to the ability to generate (sampling); capture (in-process monitoring); process (signal processing); store (data architectures); structure (data schemas and standards); manage (traceability provision); analyse (data correlation and insights) and share (manual data, different platforms) highly complex data across the AM process chain (i.e. powder management, build process and post-processing) and the supply chain. Therefore, digital manufacturing is a key enabler and solution, which is the core objective of DAEDALUS.DAEDALUS is aiming at developing a novel solution, with a combination of IDTs (AM, IIoT/Connectivity, AI/analytics) to build the digital thread and analytics solutions to enable AM adoption and scale-up and accelerate qualification of AM parts in highly regulated sectors.**AM Digital Thread:** Development of single, traceable, digital thread and its flexible integration of facility/production management systems to streamline, standardise and digitalise best practices across the AM supply chain focusing on powder management, process and post-process optimisation.**AM Intelligence:** Development of AI-enabled solutions for material and process control and stability through the utilisation of materials, sensor and in-process monitoring data.This solution will be demonstrated for three steps of the AM process chain individually (powder management, build process, machining) in a combination of pre-production and industrial environments. The final demonstrator will be a digitally integrated AM supply chain: a secure collaborative, intelligent and independent platform whereby reliable AM raw material and product traceability data can be shared securely between AM supply chain partners.The final solution is intended to generate game-changing improvements in operational efficiency, including yield, material cost and lead-times. The solution will also make a radical improvement in qualification and certification times for the AM supply chain. As a result, significant improvements in time to market are also expected.DAEDALUS will influence the future of manufacturing, by anchoring light-weighting, electrification, customised medical implants and devices in the UK supply chain and help invigorating the associated digital tech ecosystem.

The objective of this project is to streamline the capture of real-time digital factory data from multiple Additive Manufacturing (AM) sources (people, plant, process, powders, products and partners) to create an AM accurate record (digital thread); and utilise artificial intelligence to optimise machine, atmosphere, powder (raw material) and AM build parameters. VITALam will securely share and consolidate data from multiple organisations to create a digital AM ecosystem whereby stakeholders, such as Aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs); AM agencies; AM plant vendors; AM powder / raw material vendors; and post-processing suppliers; can exchange and benefit from real-time intelligence and performance monitoring to optimise product quality and productivity levels. This will accelerate aerospace AM technology advances and ultimately unlock the scalability of this game-changing technology which has the potential to disrupt all advanced manufacturing sectors, such as more environmentally friendly and economical component design and production techniques, supported by agile global supply chains. The main project output is a working prototype solution that will be piloted by FDM Digital Solutions, which is now owned by Gardner Aerospace (a global tier 1 supplier into Airbus) and/or several SMEs to refine the following: - innovate world's first dedicated Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for AM and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions that can support every AM technology from "Fuse Deposition Modelling (FDM)" to "Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)" for all sizes of AM business from OEM to start-up SME - uniquely integrate with disparate real-time data sources to create reliable and granular digital thread - deploy innovative machine learning, with state-of-art insights from University of Huddersfield to curate big data, predict issues and optimise AM product quality and productivity - unique deployment of blockchain technology to provide secure AM intelligence exchange platform with unique insights from University of Liverpool - establish a digitalised AM ecosystem with FDM Digital Solutions and other existing Valuechain clients / partners Valuechain will work with FDM Digital Solutions in order to help guide the development of the functionality provided by VITALam, with the goal to offer as much value to customers as soon as possible. Also, to introduce Valuechain to other AM partners who may be interested in the development of such a solution. Valuechain will initially focus on the global aerospace AM due to the significant and immediate market opportunities; such as compliance legislation, significance of the product quality, significant financial and operational savings, such as weight saving component design and the potential for spare part production anywhere in the world. Following the completion of this project, Valuechain will innovate VITALam with its automotive, defence, nuclear, industrial gas turbine, marine, rail and medical clients and then scale into these other global advanced manufacturing sectors once traction and substantial aerospace market penetration has been secured.

We currently use 3d printing to offer a service to high-end clients. We are considering the development of an advanced 3d printer offering increased functionality.

FDM Digital Solutions, Experts in Additive Manufacturing will develop 3D Printed bespoke foot orthotics with partners Salford insole Healthcare, The University of Salford and East Lancashire NHS Trust. Research in this project will use innovative Additive Manufacturing techniques to combine foot shape capture with other data to design novel foot orthotics. Digital technology prescription allows design freedom, potentially delivering the orthotic device within 48 hrs. The innovative part of the project is that the orthotic will be 3D printed replacing traditional hand-made techniques. The 3D printing manufacturing method allows shape of the insoles and properties of the materials to be altered to exactly match the needs of a patient's foot. This disruptive technology offers a radically new end to end system integration creating a virtual manufacturing cycle triggered by patients needs by introducing a lean supply chain and scaleable business model into the orthotics sector.