The information from final week’s RAPID+TCT in Detroit simply retains on coming! That’s why at the moment’s 3D Printing Information Briefs is one other RAPID Roundup of extra thrilling bulletins from the commerce present flooring. Learn on for all the small print!
APES Broadcasts Partnership with KRONOS Mechatronics
Expertise firm Superior Printed Digital Options (APES) introduced a strategic partnership with Germany-based KRONOS Mechatronics, a programs specialist in 3D printed electronics and additive manufacturing. APES, which additionally debuted its personal Matrix6 at RAPID, can now increase its additively manufactured electronics (AME) providing by including the KRONOS Helios and Hyperion programs to its product portfolio. These two programs have been truly up to date and relaunched underneath KRONOS, which acquired property of Neotech AMT final yr, and each provide sturdy 5-axis movement management, modular configurations, intensive supplies compatibility, and assist a variety of printing and post-processing strategies, corresponding to FFF, ink jetting, plasma cleansing and CNC milling, and floor mount gadget (SMD) Choose-and-Place integration. APES can even assist the subsequent era of KRONOS’s 3D AME CAD/CAM software program platform Aion 5X, and plans to combine it as an possibility for its Matrix6 manufacturing system. This interprets right into a unified, seamless CAD/CAM resolution for a lot of AME platforms by KRONOS and APES, and can allow APES to assist the total product lifecycle.
KRONOS Hyperion
“As we develop our portfolio to incorporate the KRONOS Helios and Hyperion, together with the APES Matrix6D platforms our purpose is to supply clients an entire set of options that assist them from early R&D prototyping by way of pilots, to large-scale manufacturing. KRONOS’ Helios and Hyperion programs are highly effective options for additive manufactured electronics R&D prototyping, and so they complement Matrix6D’s strengths in scaling and orchestration,” mentioned Wealthy Neill, the CEO of APES. “We’re excited to work with KRONOS to offer our clients a unified platform technique encompassing the total lifecycle of AME product growth and manufacturing.”
“Aion 5X is the main OS, Helios and Hyperion are the engines – collectively, they energy the way forward for additive electronics,” mentioned Jörg Dickerboom, the CEO of KRONOS Mechatronics.
ATO Launches ULTRA FREQUENCY System & Powder Manufacturing Gadgets
Ultrasonic steel atomization firm ATO Expertise exhibited alongside its U.S. companion Additive Plus at RAPID this previous week, and showcased some thrilling steel powder manufacturing and processing improvements. The corporate additionally launched some new applied sciences and options to assist improve the pliability, sustainability, and effectivity of in-house powder manufacturing, beginning with its new ULTRA FREQUENCY SYSTEM. That is the fourth frequency system ATO has developed, and is the newest addition to its ultrasonic atomization platform. It’s designed to provide each fantastic (25 µm common) and spherical powder sizes with slim Particle Measurement Distribution—nice for superior powder metallurgy applied sciences.
ATO Expertise additionally introduced its next-gen ATO Solid, a re-engineered induction vacuum casting furnace for materials restoration, alloy design, and rods manufacturing. For improved course of management, flexibility, and security, it encompasses a redesigned person interface, built-in oxygen sensor, and an built-in pyrometer with a digital camera for reside monitoring of the casting course of. Lastly, the corporate additionally launched the brand new ATO Sieve, which presents large enhancements in powder throughput and value, and sieving efficiency. The corporate says its improved ATO Suite can rework any steel feedstock—like customized ingots, industrial rods and wire, and 3D printing scrap—into high-quality, reusable powder, whereas additionally supporting a sustainable, closed-loop workflow that lowers materials prices and waste.
TECDIA Unveils kaikaFIN 3D Printer Nozzle for Mako Hotend
At RAPID, precision machining firm TECDIA debuted its new kaikaFIN, or kaika1310, nozzle, which was designed particularly for Slice Engineering’s Mako Hotend for Bambu Lab. Due to its commerce present launch, this next-generation, ultra-precise 3D printer nozzle had a simultaneous launch in each Japan and the U.S. The Mako Hotend by Slice Engineering is an formally authorised improve half for Bambu Lab’s X1 and P1 printer sequence. This $125 hotend majorly improves productiveness, as a result of not like inventory variations, it allows unbiased nozzle substitute.
Dispenser Nozzles, TECDIA’s flagship product, have been endorsed by main smartphone producers, and now have a world market share, so clearly the corporate is aware of what it’s doing in relation to nozzles. It developed the precision “kaika” nozzle for each hobbyist and industrial 3D printers, and it options an inner 30-degree taper, which helps stop clogging and enhances materials stream. Moreover, TECDIA says that its “industry-leading concentricity of 20 microns” allows ultra-smooth layer transitions. The kaikaFIN printer nozzle is able to fantastic 3D printing at 0.1 mm and 0.4 mm diameters; nevertheless, the U.S. market will solely provide the 0.1 mm model for now.
MasterGraphics Launches Up to date M5D Model
Wisconsin-based expertise supplier MasterGraphics introduced that it has rebranded to M5D, impressed by a brand new firm imaginative and prescient and mixed experience in 2D and 3D applied sciences. MasterGraphics has a powerful basis within the 2D printing {industry}, particularly as a premium supplier of HP’s vast format 2D printing applied sciences. However in 2018, the corporate started to widen its focus to incorporate industrial 3D printing, and now presents options from 3D Techniques, UltiMaker, Formlabs, and AMT, in addition to HP’s Multi Jet Fusion expertise. A brand new future began to take form for MasterGraphics, and as M5D, the corporate is dedicated to supporting success in each dimension. Their new brand’s five-sided icon helps stroll shoppers by way of crucial elements of enterprise success: profitability, alignment, evolution, outcomes and agility. Any resolution M5D supplies ought to create worth in three or extra of these dimensions to be a viable possibility for his or her shoppers and companions.
“For any firm, the efficient adoption of 3D printing into their product growth or manufacturing processes creates a transformational shift. I really like being a part of that and serving to firms leverage new 3D printing or design applied sciences to amplify their success,” mentioned M5D President Kevin Carr. “We’re all the time in search of new methods to take nice care of our clients on the 2D printing aspect of the enterprise as a result of they’re our basis and vast format will proceed to be a powerful focus. Nevertheless, alternatives to assist firms on the 3D printing aspect are what’s going to drive our progress shifting ahead as we construct on our current successes round additive manufacturing. We consider being wonderful at each, particularly in relation to service, advantages everybody.”
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