Andretti World has prolonged its multi-year partnership with Stratasys, with the additive manufacturing agency persevering with because the motorsport group’s Official 3D Printing Companion of Andretti INDYCAR.
The organisations first partnered in 2018, with Andretti putting in the Stratasys F370 and Fortus 450mc platforms to bolster its engineering and manufacturing functionality.
This 3D printing functionality is alleged to have helped Andretti ‘speed up prototyping, tooling, and half manufacturing’ with notable functions together with an RVB cooling shroud that cools the pneumatic shifting valve block. Different elements to be produced with additive manufacturing are helmet cooling adapters and a damper spring perch software.
As Stratasys and Andretti proceed their partnership, the 3D printing chief will play a ‘key position’ in designing an ‘optimised state-of-the-art’ 3D printing lab at Andretti’s headquarters. Stratasys branding may also stay seen on the edges of the tire ramps on every of the Andretti INDYCAR Honda entries.
“Our continued partnership with Andretti World highlights the vital position of additive manufacturing in advancing motorsports innovation,” stated Wealthy Garrity, Chief Industrial Enterprise Officer at Stratasys. “We’re proud to help the Andretti group with cutting-edge 3D printing applied sciences that assist drive efficiency, pace up growth, and provides them a aggressive edge on and off the observe.”
“The enlargement of our partnership with Stratasys will considerably improve our additive capability and capabilities at Andretti World,” added Scott Graves, Engineering Supervisor at Andretti World. “Armed with their newest industry-leading applied sciences, we will push the bounds of what’s doable in additive manufacturing. Quicker turnaround instances, extra complicated geometries and higher-quality elements will likely be important in assembly the intense calls for of INDYCAR racing.”
