3D printing is a fast-growing market, opening up completely new product and manufacturing options for customers and industry. The newly developed SEAM process significantly extends the options for the efficient manufacture of printed components. An impression of this is conveyed by the example of a fiber-reinforced clamping fixture.

Vacuum clamping fixture of a B-column segment, manufactured by the SEAM process 

Additive Manufacturing of Plastic Components in a High-Speed Process Using Standard Pellet Stock

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

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3D-Drucker (für FDM, FFF, etc.)

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Additive Fertigung

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Andere Werkstoffe

Ultrafast 3D Printing

The pathways to plastics can be many – even metalworking in the case of AIM3D. That is what first got this start-up up and running. Fast forward to now and the young Rostock company can cover both bases.

Versatile: the 3D printer developed by this young company can process virtually all fusible materials.

16:9

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Start up

Wirtschaft

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When We Break through  Material Boundaries

The Formnext 2022 shows that AM can help to decentralize processes and production and make supply chains more resilient, conserve resources and produce with less energy consumption.

Formnext 2022 took place from November 15 to 18 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

3D-Druck-Anlage, pulverbettbasiert, Metall

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Filamente für additive Verfahren

Werkstoffe für additive Verfahren

The Future of Industrial Manufacturing

With the Formiga P 110 FDR polymer system, extremely fine and yet stable components can be realized.

EOS Introduced New FDR System

The trade fair will take place in autumn 2023 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center.

Formnext + PM South China to Be Postponed

Production is becoming ever more flexible, diversified and decentralized. Without doubt, additive manufacturing processes make a crucial contribution to this, also initiating the transformation from production-based design to design-driven production. In this article, the 3D printing service provider FIT outlines a best-practice panorama of current technologies.

The biggest ever 3D-printed lattice structure was assembled along over 2000 precisely fitting joints into an 8 m-high retable

What Additive Plastic Manufacturing Can Do. The View of a Full-Service Provider

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Finer, Bigger, Faster

Biologic Models, US-based 3D-printed protein model and medical animation provider, is using Mimaki’s 3D printing technology to produce intricate molecular visualization models, bringing protein into the tangible world in incredible detail.

Virus model of SARS-CoV-2 produced with the 3DUJ-553 full color 3D printer

3D Printer Enables Precise Models of Protein Cells

Over the four trade-show days in November, Formnext 2021 transformed the metropolis of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, into an international innovation center of global additive manufacturing and modern industrial production. At the plastics side, some of the focuses were on the manufacture of voluminous parts, the use of injection molding pellets as a material basis, and the processing of high-performance plastics.

A high-strength carbon fiber-reinforced polyamide is printed on a plasma-treated stainless steel sheet.

Formnext 2021: Successful Relaunch as a Face-to-Face Show

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Thermoplaste

High-Performance 3D Printing

To an increasing extent, additive manufacturing is finding its way into series production. This was clearly shown at last year’s Formnext.

T-Crow night vision camera: except for the electronic components, the entire stand is produced additively. 

Polyetherketon

Streifinger, Florian

Ehrhardt, Melanie

Print-Ready for Series Production

Arburg Plastic Freeforming is predestined for the additive manufacturing of medtech components. The associated Freeformer-type additive manufacturing systems process the same plastic pellets that are used in injection molding. That makes the open systems very economical to use.

In the AKF process, resorbable original materials such a plate-implants similar to bone, can be manufactured. They are gradually replaced by endogenous tissue

Medical Product Manufacturers Are Processing Original Materials Using the Freeformer

Biokunststoffe

Medizintechnik

Medizinprodukte

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

New Possibilities for Use  in the Human Body

Additive manufacturing processes count as future-oriented manufacturing techniques. Numerous studies and award-winning demonstrators underline the interest of the industry.

The bicycle frame (600 g, produced in 80 min) is printed directly onto a metal sheet. This combination unites the advantages of two worlds

Plastic-Metal Hybrid Cuts Costs and Time in Additive Manufacturing

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Bleche, BÃ¤nder

Metall Werkstoffe

Verbindungstechnik, hybride

Verbindungstechnik Verfahren

Werkstoffe fÃ¼r additive Verfahren

3D Printing with Pellet Extruded Plastics on Metal

3D Systems has developed the SLA 750 stereolithography solution for additive manufacturing of large products or high quantities. It comprises the 3D printers SLA 750 and SLA 750 Dual, as well as the new material Accura AMX Durable Natural and the Post Cure 1050 secondary finishing system.

Resistant material: Accura AMX Durable Natural is suitable for applications with high elasticity and high impact strength. © 3D Systems

Harzwerkstoffe

SLA Platform for Large Parts

New printers and Nylon carbon fiber material expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

New 3D-printers and Nylon carbon fiber material expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

New 3D-printers and Nylon carbon fiber material from Stratasys expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Two New Composite-Ready 3D-Printers

More than 690 exhibitors with a booked gross exhibition space of over 50,000 m² have already registered to exhibit at the world‘s leading trade fair dedicated to additive manufacturing and modern industrial production.

Formnext 2022 will open its doors in Frankfurt from November 15 – 18.

Continued Success with Considerably More Exhibitors

In addition to numerous new developments of the exhibitors, especially the versatile and extensive supporting program should convince the visitors.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Almost at Pre-Pandemic Levels

Software Optimizes Properties of the Components

Researchers have developed software that can adjust important parameters during the printing process.

3D printers are a flexible way to produce components. Researchers at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern are also making use of this technology: In order to optimize the printing result for plastics, the researchers have developed software that can adjust parameters such as temperature and printing speed during printing.

In 3D printing, a component is printed layer by layer along a specified path. This technique allows companies to produce their goods without much effort. However, various parameters such as temperature, printing speed, printing direction, layer height and geometry of the component can influence the printing result.

At the Institute for Composite Materials headed by Professor Dr-Ing. Alois K. Schlarb at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK), the team is working on 3D printing technologies. One of the researchers‘ goals is to optimize the properties of the printed products. “Once a layer is printed, it cools down. When the next layer is applied on top of it, it has a higher temperature than the one underneath, and the layer underneath heats up again,” explains Miaozi Huang, research assistant at the institute. “This contact temperature or local temperature between the printed part and the part to be printed influences the quality of the seam or the weld.” This plays a major role in the properties of the product. In the finished component, this is a weak spot, especially if the local temperature was not high enough when the seams were created.

Optimally Exploit of the Material Properties

This is where the work of the engineers from Kaiserslautern comes in: The team has developed a software, which during printing ensures that various constants such as the temperature of the print nozzle or the printing speed can be flexibly changed – depending on the shape of the component and the plastic used. “The aim of our technology is to optimally exploit the material properties,” says Alexander Schlicher, who is involved in implementing the concepts at the institute. “Similar processes do not yet exist.” What is special about the software is that the researchers can flexibly change the parameters for each individual movement of the printing process.

They have already tested the new procedure in the laboratory. Two samples, one printed with conventional software, the other with the new technique, differ in their structure, as can be observed under the microscope. “There is also a difference in the properties, especially in the tensile strength across the direction of printing,” adds Miaozi Huang. “This method allows the weak points in the printed products to be eliminated.” For example, with this method it is possible to keep the contact temperatures between two strands in the optimal range for the respective moulded part geometry.

Such optimizations are important, for example, for increasing the service life of a component. The method used by the team from Kaiserslautern allows weak points in the plastic to be avoided.

The engineers will present their work at the Hannover Messe from 30 May to 2 June at the Rhineland-Palatinate research stand (Hall 2, Stand B40).

Technische Universität Kaiserslautern  

https://www.uni-kl.de

Miaozi Huang‘s team uses intelligent software in 3D printing to optimize the properties of plastic components.

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