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Östersund company charges for series (EBM) production
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First in the world with 3D printing in stainless steel
Annual doubling
Additive production is thus a strong growing method of producing products. The development is fast and strong.
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Östersundsföretaget laddar för serietillverkning inom 3D-print - Sep 12, 2017
The bold text below is bold in the original article. The text shown in red indicates what I think is most important. All of the images have been moved to the end of the page.
Using Google translate for the complete article:
Sep 12, 2017
The Östersund company charges for series production in 3D printing
While we still associate 3D printing with prototype production, AIM has already taken the technology one step further.
AIM - Additive Innovation & Manifacturing Sweden AB - was formed as recently as one year ago, yet has 15 years of experience and research in the back, via Mid University and deep knowledge of AIR - Additive Innovation & Research Sweden AB.
3D printing and additive manufacturing is developing at the flash speed. Technology does not seem to know any boundaries, and even if it is 3D printers one first thinks, many machine manufacturers develop mills and multipurpose machines that both subtract and add material. As technology evolves and creates new opportunities, new companies also find their niches.
"We aim for series production," says AIM CEO Göran Elovsson.
Laser belongs to the most common methods of 3D printing in metal, but AIM primarily uses EBM - Electron Beam Melting.
"When we go to series production, EBM technology is superior in terms of productivity and cost," says Göran Elovsson. It is faster and cheaper and gives us completely other opportunities to produce larger volumes.
Briefly, the technology works so that a powerful electron beam shoots into a powder bed in vacuum and under high heat, 700-800 degrees.
"This means, among other things, that we get a residual stress-free material and components that do not need heat treatment after the manufacturing process.
Recently, the company invested in two new high performance printers from Arcam, who apply that technology.
- Productivity, we are faster, and we can build products on top of each other in the house, so we can maximize the utilization of the machine's capacity. - Small details, such as orthopedic screws, we can produce quite a lot of in a run, while larger pieces, like helicopter parts, maybe we only get four to five. "With laser, it's possible only in theory because you create so much support material that it's almost impossible to get rid of the stuff. - As it seems today, our opinion is that EBM is both more productive and cheaper. "We are small technical, but it also gives us a global market at the same time. We deliver products to India, Germany, USA, Italy ... We currently have at least the number of customers in Sweden.
At AIM in Östersund , or more specifically Frösön, now not only are the EBM machines from Arcam but also other printers that apply other methods; EOS laser printers, suitable for various polymeric materials in cost effective small series; Stratasys printers applying FDM - Fused Deposition Modeling - suitable for precise, functional and stable products in thermoplastics.
Next to these, the EBM Printers from Arcam. While focusing on the narrow EBM technology, there is the breadth of other manufacturing.
First in the world with 3D printing in stainless steel
However, AIM also works in plastic, but the main track is metal, especially titanium.
"But already in the autumn we are first in the world to print stainless steel with EBM technology," says Göran Elovsson. "We have an incredible pressure from the industry in stainless steel. Everyone thinks that titanium is so expensive - which in our world is not as relevant because we only use what we need. "Historically, stainless steel is a well-known and established material and it opens up many opportunities for us, especially in industry, but also the medical technology side, where many tools are made of stainless steel. Many companies are on call and want to be called when we start driving in stainless steel.
Many advantages The
components manufactured by the company represent a wide range of products to a variety of industries and end users.
"We do a lot of impellers, tools, process valves, smaller parts like sensor housings, aircraft and helicopters, various medical implants ... There are new applications all the time and it's very wide. - Historically, these products have been molded and must be manufactured in two parts. Now we have the opportunity to do that in part. - Product quality is getting better and cheaper than castings.
"An interesting case is a Swedish company that works with process valves. We designed a valve that they developed in 1967 and have never undergone any design change ever since. It was made of cast goods and every change brings with it large costs in new molds and so on. For us, the changes cost nothing, while we can improve the product by removing such materials as not needed. Previously, they also bought the valves from China, with 40 weeks delivery time. Now they get them in two weeks. We have thus solved both a logistics question and an economic issue, while at the same time getting a better product.
Annual doubling
Additive production is thus a strong growing method of producing products. The development is fast and strong.
"We estimate that additive manufacturing is currently almost doubling annually," says Göran Elovsson. Especially on the metal side. - On the plastic side there are a number of manufacturers in Sweden too, but on metal there are only three today. Two work mainly in laser and we are lonely with EBM, in addition to a large company that focuses on internal manufacturing and also in materials other than titanium.
Co-operation for capacity
- Today, a lot of cooperation between different suppliers is about the different technologies. It is important to build up the supply chains so that there is capacity in the market. Because the big companies that may not want or can work with the technology themselves, have a supplier group that can deliver these products. "It is important for us to work together to anchor the technology, both for the medical technology, but especially for the industrial side. - The medical technology production has been established on the market for a number of years now, while industrial companies are starting to get their eyes on the technology.
"When General Electric bought Arcam, the technology gave an acceptance and signaled that the technology is here to stay. GE has amazing future plans with the goal of installing a 3D printer every third day for the next ten years. They will work very internally, while, for example, the aviation industry creates a subcontractor network. The strategies vary a bit. AIM is well suited to being one of the suppliers whose industry is increasingly needed.
Read more in Swedish Workshop number 3.
AIM. Foto: Jens Blixth.
A series of images that partially describe the process at AIM:
Photo: Jens Blixth
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First in the world with 3D printing in stainless steel
Annual doubling
Additive production is thus a strong growing method of producing products. The development is fast and strong.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Östersundsföretaget laddar för serietillverkning inom 3D-print - Sep 12, 2017
The bold text below is bold in the original article. The text shown in red indicates what I think is most important. All of the images have been moved to the end of the page.
Using Google translate for the complete article:
Sep 12, 2017
The Östersund company charges for series production in 3D printing
While we still associate 3D printing with prototype production, AIM has already taken the technology one step further.
AIM - Additive Innovation & Manifacturing Sweden AB - was formed as recently as one year ago, yet has 15 years of experience and research in the back, via Mid University and deep knowledge of AIR - Additive Innovation & Research Sweden AB.
3D printing and additive manufacturing is developing at the flash speed. Technology does not seem to know any boundaries, and even if it is 3D printers one first thinks, many machine manufacturers develop mills and multipurpose machines that both subtract and add material. As technology evolves and creates new opportunities, new companies also find their niches.
"We aim for series production," says AIM CEO Göran Elovsson.
Laser belongs to the most common methods of 3D printing in metal, but AIM primarily uses EBM - Electron Beam Melting.
"When we go to series production, EBM technology is superior in terms of productivity and cost," says Göran Elovsson. It is faster and cheaper and gives us completely other opportunities to produce larger volumes.
Briefly, the technology works so that a powerful electron beam shoots into a powder bed in vacuum and under high heat, 700-800 degrees.
"This means, among other things, that we get a residual stress-free material and components that do not need heat treatment after the manufacturing process.
Recently, the company invested in two new high performance printers from Arcam, who apply that technology.
- Productivity, we are faster, and we can build products on top of each other in the house, so we can maximize the utilization of the machine's capacity. - Small details, such as orthopedic screws, we can produce quite a lot of in a run, while larger pieces, like helicopter parts, maybe we only get four to five. "With laser, it's possible only in theory because you create so much support material that it's almost impossible to get rid of the stuff. - As it seems today, our opinion is that EBM is both more productive and cheaper. "We are small technical, but it also gives us a global market at the same time. We deliver products to India, Germany, USA, Italy ... We currently have at least the number of customers in Sweden.
At AIM in Östersund , or more specifically Frösön, now not only are the EBM machines from Arcam but also other printers that apply other methods; EOS laser printers, suitable for various polymeric materials in cost effective small series; Stratasys printers applying FDM - Fused Deposition Modeling - suitable for precise, functional and stable products in thermoplastics.
Next to these, the EBM Printers from Arcam. While focusing on the narrow EBM technology, there is the breadth of other manufacturing.
First in the world with 3D printing in stainless steel
However, AIM also works in plastic, but the main track is metal, especially titanium.
"But already in the autumn we are first in the world to print stainless steel with EBM technology," says Göran Elovsson. "We have an incredible pressure from the industry in stainless steel. Everyone thinks that titanium is so expensive - which in our world is not as relevant because we only use what we need. "Historically, stainless steel is a well-known and established material and it opens up many opportunities for us, especially in industry, but also the medical technology side, where many tools are made of stainless steel. Many companies are on call and want to be called when we start driving in stainless steel.
Many advantages The
components manufactured by the company represent a wide range of products to a variety of industries and end users.
"We do a lot of impellers, tools, process valves, smaller parts like sensor housings, aircraft and helicopters, various medical implants ... There are new applications all the time and it's very wide. - Historically, these products have been molded and must be manufactured in two parts. Now we have the opportunity to do that in part. - Product quality is getting better and cheaper than castings.
"An interesting case is a Swedish company that works with process valves. We designed a valve that they developed in 1967 and have never undergone any design change ever since. It was made of cast goods and every change brings with it large costs in new molds and so on. For us, the changes cost nothing, while we can improve the product by removing such materials as not needed. Previously, they also bought the valves from China, with 40 weeks delivery time. Now they get them in two weeks. We have thus solved both a logistics question and an economic issue, while at the same time getting a better product.
Annual doubling
Additive production is thus a strong growing method of producing products. The development is fast and strong.
"We estimate that additive manufacturing is currently almost doubling annually," says Göran Elovsson. Especially on the metal side. - On the plastic side there are a number of manufacturers in Sweden too, but on metal there are only three today. Two work mainly in laser and we are lonely with EBM, in addition to a large company that focuses on internal manufacturing and also in materials other than titanium.
Co-operation for capacity
- Today, a lot of cooperation between different suppliers is about the different technologies. It is important to build up the supply chains so that there is capacity in the market. Because the big companies that may not want or can work with the technology themselves, have a supplier group that can deliver these products. "It is important for us to work together to anchor the technology, both for the medical technology, but especially for the industrial side. - The medical technology production has been established on the market for a number of years now, while industrial companies are starting to get their eyes on the technology.
"When General Electric bought Arcam, the technology gave an acceptance and signaled that the technology is here to stay. GE has amazing future plans with the goal of installing a 3D printer every third day for the next ten years. They will work very internally, while, for example, the aviation industry creates a subcontractor network. The strategies vary a bit. AIM is well suited to being one of the suppliers whose industry is increasingly needed.
Read more in Swedish Workshop number 3.
AIM. Foto: Jens Blixth.
A series of images that partially describe the process at AIM:
Photo: Jens Blixth
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