| HP Announces John Deere Application for New Metal Binder Jetting Technology |
At Formnext, HP Inc. detailed customer applications of its recently released Metal Jet S100 additive manufacturing (AM) system. Among them: the AM machine’s use by John Deere for valve production in its tractor fuel systems. Together with GKN, John Deere now is manufacturing Metal Jet-printed valves that perform exceptionally in extreme weather conditions.
In addition, John Deere also is leveraging nonmetal-AM technology to
produce prototypes, describing development of a windshield holder where
AM enabled a reduction in pre-assembly from 30 days to 10, in delivery
times by as much as 10 weeks and in overall production costs by 20-25
percent. |
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| SLM Solutions 12-Laser AM Machine with Extended Build Envelope |
| SLM Solutions has introduced the NXG XII 600E metal-AM machine, with an extended 1.5-m build envelope in the Z axis and based on the company’s NXG XII 600 and its 12 1-kW lasers. As reported by 3D Metal Printing
earlier this fall, SLM has slated this system for Concurrent
Technologies Corp., the prime contractor for a U.S. Air Force Research
Laboratory project. Customers already having installed the NXG XII 600,
or about to, have the option to upgrade their systems with the extended
Z-axis build envelope. Expect deliveries of these units in 2023. |
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| Portable DED AM Robot Cell |
| Additec has launched a portable AM robot cell, the AMRC-P (AM Robot Cell-Portable). A turnkey robotic metal-AM system in a compact cell—and reportedly the world's first portable AM robot cell rated for reactive materials such as titanium—it can print parts to 1.8 m in any dimension in a range of materials. The cell features a Meltio printing engine, a multi-laser deposition head (Additec is a founding partner of Meltio) with multi-material capability. |
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| Sigma Additive’s PrintRite3D Software to be Certified for SLM Solutions’ Metal-AM Machines |
| Sigma Additive Solutions Inc. announced that its PrintRite3D in-process quality-assurance software will be certified to work with SLM Solutions’ industrial metal-AM machines. The certification allows the companies to utilize SLM’s open architecture and SLM Quality APIs to enable integration of PrintRite3D, Sigma’s third-party agnostic quality-assurance software and analytics solution. |
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| New From EOS: AM Contract Manufacturing Network |
| EOS
announced the launch of the EOS Contract Manufacturing Network,
designed to connect end customers with established production partners
for rapid and reliable AM-part production. The network harnesses these
partners: FKM, Erpro, Volum-E, Pankl, Materialise, Oerlikon and
Hasenauer & Hesser. |
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| Dyndrite Announces Support for OVF Open Data Link |
Dyndrite
has announced support within its Dyndrite laser powder-bed fusion
(LPBF) software for the new Open Vector Format (OVF), an open-source
data format developed by scientists at RWTH Aachen University Chair
Digital Additive Production DAP, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer
Institute for Laser Technology ILT.
OVF provides a streamlined data link between the digital and physical
process, enabling robust and efficient manufacturing processes and
offering a number of advantages over existing formats, such as CLI and
3MF. It reportedly provides an open, flexible format for controlling a
laser in combination with a galvanometer scanner, and supports multi
scanfield arrays as well as additional machine axis controls. |
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