Aitiip Know-how Heart has bought an S1 shot blasting machine from AM Options to automated its post-processing operations.
The corporate is claimed to keep up one of many largest growth labs for additive manufacturing in Europe, catering for prototyping and particular person completed elements.
Aitiip sought to accumulate an S1 shot blasting system in response to its ‘quickly growing’ manufacturing volumes. By integrating the S1 machine, Aitiip is now capable of obtain higher-quality floor completed at a extra environment friendly value. The elements processed with the S1 are stated to be in full compliance with buyer specs and have helped Aitiip to attain time financial savings of as much as 90%. In keeping with Aitiip, the typical measurement of the elements it produces permits the corporate to print roughly 300 elements in every construct with its HP Multi Jet Fusion platform, which might take as much as 6 hours to depowder in a handbook shot blasting cupboard. Now, the corporate is ready to post-process elements in simply half-hour.
“Earlier than we put in the S1, all post-processing operations needed to be carried out manually,” stated Pulao Murillo, Chief Growth Officer at Aitiip Know-how Heart. “This induced not solely exceptionally excessive labour prices but in addition restricted our operational flexibility. Because of the automated S1 system, we have been capable of considerably enhance our manufacturing capability. Now we will provide the elements contained in numerous assemblies for merchandise already in the marketplace as 3D printed parts. With our handbook post-processing operation, this was unthinkable.”
