On November 19, 2019, FORMNEXT, the world's largest professional 3D printing exhibition, was held in Frankfurt, Germany, with more than 800 3D printing manufacturers participating in the world and more than 70 Chinese exhibitors.
At the exhibition site, we saw the booth of Desktop Meta, a desktop technology 3D printing manufacturer with a market valuation of US $ 1.5 billion (10.2 billion yuan). On January 23, 2019, Desktop Metal, an American metal 3D printer company, announced that it had received US $ 160 million (approximately RMB 1.09 billion) in Series E investments. Since its establishment, the latest round of investment, Desktop Metal, has received an investment of 438 million US dollars (about 3 billion yuan). Desktop Metal ’s current estimated valuation is US $ 1.5 billion (10.2 billion yuan).
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At this exhibition, Desktop Metal released the latest epoch-making equipment shop system. The shop system is the world's first metal adhesive spraying system designed specifically for machining workshops, with prices starting at $ 150,000.
shop system 3D printing system
Shop System ™ introduces high-quality binder jetting technology to a completely new machining market. Now, workshops can print end-use metal parts in a cost-effective manner with unmatched speed and productivity.
Easy to use and operate
When designing a workshop, consider the modern machine shop, which is built to fit your workflow seamlessly. Compared to laser-based systems, parts with excellent surface finish and resolution can be produced at a fraction of the cost.
● Turnkey solution with reasonable price
The workshop system contains all the equipment you need to start spraying binders (from printing to sintering) in your workshop. With a series of build volume configurations (4L, 8L, 12L and 16L), the Shop System is designed to scale according to the throughput of your store.
● Simplified post-processing
The parts on the Shop System can be completely printed on its powder bed, and it has a sinter binding machine that can be moved manually. Avoid spending hours on machining from the support structure unique to laser-based systems, but directly obtain customer-useable, near-final-shaped parts directly from the furnace.
● Optimized powder and parameters
Get started quickly with turnkey end-to-end solutions. Shop System has Desktop Metal engineering powders and processing parameters that are optimized to provide excellent part quality and ensure repeatability between parts.
Unmatched productivity
Expand the output of the store. Print end-use metal parts effortlessly, so that they have the quality, surface finish and tolerances needed to coexist with processing.
● 10 times faster
With a high-speed single-pass printing engine, Shop System can produce high-quality metal parts 10 times faster than laser powder bed fusion, and can produce 70 kg of metal parts per day.
● Print version by shift
The average shift time is 6-12 hours, so each shift can be rebuilt. *** Print dozens to hundreds of parts close to the final shape every day, and reserve time for mechanics to perfect key features.
● Flexible batch processing
The workshop system is a tool-free manufacturing process. Just click a button to switch to a new job and handle multiple complex jobs without customizing settings.
Excellent print quality
Print out high-resolution parts that the customer is ready for, with incredible detail. Obtain a surface finish as low as 4μm Ra from the furnace, and achieve <0.1μm Ra through batch finishing. The workshop system can produce completely dense solid parts without degumming or filling.
● High resolution printing
The workshop system has the highest resolution single-pass binder injection system on the market. Shop System has a 1600×1600 DPI local machine (33% higher resolution than similar systems) and 670M ink drops per second, which can provide high-speed, high-resolution printing.
● Adaptive print engine
Users do not have to sacrifice functional details or resolution for speed. With an ink droplet size of approximately 1 pL and an automatic ink droplet multiplexing function of up to 6 pL, the Shop System can achieve excellent surface finish, loss control, and rich functional details.
● 5 times printing redundancy
With Shop System's five lines totaling more than 70,000 nozzles, you can avoid spraying and printing problems. The nozzle redundancy of the print head is 25% higher than similar systems, thereby improving print quality and reliability.
Desktop Metal 3D Printer Studio System
Studio System was first launched in 2017. The entire system consists of a metal 3D printer, degreasing station and furnace. This 3D printing device is designed to be very safe and can be used directly in the office. Its patented layer technology (similar to FDM) extrudes metal rods without the use of lasers and metal powders, so it does not cause problems such as fire and powder inhalation into the human body.
Studio System Upgrade Studio System + retains the main features of its predecessor, but it also provides a replaceable high-resolution print head, voxel sintering accuracy can reach 240 microns on XY axis and 45 microns on Z axis. The new system is also equipped with a camera, which can monitor the printing progress in real time, as well as the design of the distillation chamber for improving thermal uniformity, so as to obtain higher quality parts. In addition, the system has new foldable shelves to maximize the capacity of degreasers and furnaces.
Studio System Product Highlights
● Safe and simple
Because no laser is used and dust pollution is avoided, the DM studio System is safe for any environment. Unlike other systems, the DM studio System does not require third-party equipment, external ventilation or special facilities, and only requires electricity and Internet connection.
● Detachable support
The DM studio System's proprietary detachable support allows manual removal of the support structure. The huge difficulties of metal post-processing are perfectly solved.
● High density, high quality parts
SYS technology guarantees high-quality components with a density between 96% and 99% (depending on the alloy material used). The performance of the parts is similar to that of forgings.
Studio System Material
The production system uses Single Pass Jetting ™ (SPJ ™) technology with bi-directional printing, where all steps of the printing process-powder deposition, spreading, compaction, ballistic suppression and adhesive jet printing-apply the area each time it is built. As long as there is movement, you can print, which is the fastest way to print complex metal parts.