Meltio and Phillips Collaborate on Hybrid CNC Machining and AM Technology for Defense Applications

Targeting defense manufacturing, Phillips Corp. has become the first Meltio partner worldwide to integrate successfully the Meltio Engine Blue, which employs wire-fed directed-energy-deposition (DED) additive manufacturing (AM) technology, into a Haas CNC machine, Meltio and Phillips officials announced. This combination enables hybrid manufacturing, which combines additive and subtractive technologies into one streamlined workflow.

Engine Blue is built around welding wire, a safe, clean and cost-efficient metal feedstock. The hybrid capability reportedly enables defense and industrial manufacturers to expand their CNC machining capabilities with integrated metal AM, providing an agile and scalable solution for mission-critical parts.

The first Meltio Engine Blue has been integrated successfully into a Haas TM-1r, a CNC machining platform. Stated benefits of this hybrid configuration include production of complex metal parts with greater precision, shorter lead times, and reduced material waste—capabilities essential for logistics, sustainment and rapid deployment environments encountered in defense applications.

“The demand for manufacturing increasingly complex 3D printed parts with Meltio's DED metal technology using a CNC machine is increasing in different industries in the United States,” says Gabriel Ortiz, Meltio channel manager in the United States. “The integration of Meltio into Haas CNC certifies that we continue to keep pace with this growing industrial demand for DED metal parts.”

See also: Meltio Inc, Phillips Corp.

Technologies: Additive Manufacturing, Tooling

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