Smarter design, greener future:
harnessing bio-intelligence
for additive manufacturing
Biological transformation of additive manufacturing processes for the sustainable manufacturing of bio-inspired products.
What?
Additive manufacturing has a lot to offer to the manufacturing industry. The technology helps reduce CO2 emissions, save resources and supports re-thinking product design. ORGANIC goes way beyond this: It will enable the biological transformation of additive manufacturing (AM) processes.
How?
ORGANIC starts by 3D-printing fully recyclable biocomposites, inspired by nature, to create complex, lightweight and durable lattice structures. Next, we will integrate cognitive and evolutionary capabilities into the AM process, enabling self-configuration, self-monitoring, self-optimisation and self-healing. Real-time data and AI will power this gentelligence system, with initial applications in the wind energy sector.
Why?
The ultimate goal: The first-time-right production of large, highly optimised, bio-inspired products made of the combintion of different, fully recyclable, fiber-enforced biocomposites, made with Fused Granulate Fabrication (FGF) technology.
months
from Jun 2025 to Nov 2028
project partners
from 8 EU countries
million euros
budget amount
Objectives
ORGANIC is aiming high – with very concrete ideas what needs to be achieved to succeed. The objectives below dive deeper into the technological background.
Develop a global gentelligence framework for additive manufacturing that combines bio-inspired intelligence, knowledge modeling and reinforcement learning to enable adaptive, efficient and sustainable processes.
Develop an integrated CAx open tool for optimising PSPP behavior of bio-inspired lattice structures in additive manufacturing, enabling trade-off exploration, multimaterial optimisation and SSbD integration for first-time-right fabrication and net-zero business models.
Develop high-precision, digitised Fused Granulate Fabrication (FGF) equipment for additive manufacturing of large-scale, bio-based composites with variable fibre lengths, combining advanced extrusion, adaptive heating and monitoring systems for first-time-right fabrication, real-time process optimisation and seamless CAx and self-X control integration.
Implement a real-time self-X control system for bio-based composites additive manufacturing, using predictive LSTM-RNN models for self-configuration, monitoring, optimisation and healing, ensuring first-time-right fabrication and seamless integration with FGF equipment and the gentelligence framework.
Establish a comprehensive characterisation protocol for bio-based composites in FGF additive manufacturing, capturing fibre distribution, porosity, rheology, heat transfer and interlayer adhesion to enable quality assurance, process optimisation and data-driven feedback across design, fabrication and the gentelligence framework.
Promote bio-intelligence across additive manufacturing value chains by integrating ORGANIC’s hardware and software into a bio-intelligent AM system, enabling first-time-right fabrication of complex bio-based products, improving efficiency, reliability and sustainability and supporting upskilling, standardisation and market adoption for regenerative, net-positive business models.
