Philips (Dunlee)
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Sr. Development Engineer - Additive Manufacturing

Dr. Naveed Rahman

*Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in business administration.
*Working as a senior development engineer in CT business unit of Philips.
*Six years of professional experience for leading Philips and OEM CT components accounts.
*Supervising two Ph.D students under the Dutch national grant for the 'Fusion for Fusion' project.

Philips (Dunlee) specializes in industrial-scale advanced manufacturing of pure tungsten using laser powder bed fusion technology. At its manufacturing facility in the Netherlands, Philips has perfected laser-material processing to produce fine features of CT components, such as antiscatter grids, which require extreme precision. The feature sizes range from 60 to 100 microns, with a precision of up to 15 microns. Additionally, this process has been optimized to manufacture dense plasma-facing components for nuclear fusion, capable of withstanding extreme thermo-mechanical loads. The density of pure tungsten parts for nuclear fusion applications exceeds 99%.