Cheap 3d Metal Printer Revolutionize Industry Production

About three years ago, they noticed that GE started to 3D print some of the parts that the shop used to make. Since then, he has seen that 3D metal printing has started to take over traditional manufacturing techniques and that let them to start developing his own 3D metal printer to lead this technology into the machine shops of tomorrow. They duo wanted to build a metal 3D printer that will be accessible for everybody.

Metal printing has developed further in the past 10 years, and more and more investors and analyst have shown interests in 3D metal printing. 3D printing for direct metal part manufacturing could lead to cost saving and better performing components and benefit all industries.

Unfortunately, the price of commercial 3D metal printer is so expensive and it remained out of reach of most people. That could be set to change with a team building a low cost metal 3D printer.

The price drop of high precision sensors, computational power and many core components for metal 3D printer allowed the company to build the machine at a much lower price. Additionally the team is experienced in lasers, optics, and industrial systems and their partnership with the experts of additive manufacturing at the University of Louisville allow them to pull a dozen engineering disciplines together to create a low cost 3D metal printer. They are going to start shipping the first test units to more test partners early next year.

The team wants to build a platform that can replace traditional manufacturing and surpass it. Now they are developing the first US based powder bed fusion 3D metal printer. Basically the printer lays down a thin layer of metal powder onto a build plate and then uses a high power laser melt that metal powder onto the layer beneath it.

3D metal printer is an order of magnitude cheaper and has the same quality as million dollar metal 3D printers. This means that every industry can take advantage of the strengths and freedom of metal 3D printing, notes the company.