Industrialisation is the keyword, and it's coming soon
I still believe a presentation of a new system will reach us soon.
A system with multiple chambers, Call it a production-street with multiple connected chambers.
First chamber on the left: outside a heatproof and vacuumproof door, in the first chamber the building box is prepared, after closing it is preheated and it is put under vacuum.
Second chamber; the building chamber, the connecting door with the prepared chamber is opened, and a transport system brings the building box within the building chamber. Vacuum is ok for production, and so is the temperature.
EBM starts within minutes.
The third chamber (on the right) is opened. after several hours of cooling in the third chamber the products are ready to cool down to the outside temp.
The building box with the products are removed.
The outside vacuum door closes again, and the cooling chamber is heated again, and the pumps will bring the chamber under vacuum.
In the meanwhile the new parts are builded in the production chamber, and when they are finished, the door opens between the building chamber and the cooling chamber, and the building box is transported to the cooling chamber.
The old systems:
What is the production time of an AM System?
How many cycles can we produce within 100 hours?
For SLM: real production time, and 1 hour for preparing / starting new production (heat treatment is in an other system and does not involve production of the AM System.
For EBM: real production time, and 7 hours of cooling (heat treatment) within the system. New production is delayed for 7 hours!
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