AMACS Large-Format Additive Manufacturing
AMACS Large-Format Additive Manufacturing extends ATI’s core capability into the rapid production of full-scale components, tooling, and prototypes across marine, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing sectors. Rather than positioning additive as a standalone machine sale, AMACS integrates large-format extrusion systems into a broader, closed-loop manufacturing ecosystem—combining multi-axis motion, metrology-driven alignment, and adaptive toolpath control. This enables customers to move from concept to full-scale validation quickly, producing functional parts, molds, and patterns with production-relevant geometry and material behavior.
Within shipbuilding and large-structure fabrication, AMACS additive serves as a bridge between design and production, accelerating plug and mold creation, composite tooling, and low-volume part manufacturing. In industrial applications, it enables rapid iteration and short-run production without the lead times and cost constraints of traditional methods. Once validated, parts can transition seamlessly into conventional processes such as machining, molding, or casting—ensuring additive is not an endpoint, but a strategic entry point into scalable manufacturing.
By delivering additive as part of the AMACS platform—rather than as isolated hardware—ATI maintains full control of integration, performance, and customer outcomes, providing a unified solution that scales from prototype to production.
AMACS Gateway™ integrated with industrial robotic control systems
AMACS extends beyond large-format extrusion into fully integrated robotic manufacturing—combining multi-axis motion, adaptive control, and real-time system coordination. At the core is the AMACS Gateway™, enabling synchronized control between robotic platforms, deposition systems, and metrology inputs.
For structures exceeding traditional additive envelopes, ATI deploys robotic platforms capable of operating directly on full-scale components. This includes additive deposition, machining, surface finishing, and hybrid workflows applied directly to molds, plugs, and structural assemblies.
AMACS Adaptive Additive + SmartTrack™ system (visualized workflow)
Through AMACS SmartTrack™ and persistent datum strategies such as Anchor™, robotic systems operate within a controlled spatial framework—maintaining alignment, repeatability, and traceability across large structures. This enables adaptive additive, welding, and finishing operations to be executed with production-level accuracy across extended working volumes—bringing precision manufacturing directly to full-scale structures.