Desktop Metal Qualifies 316L Stainless Steel for High Volume Manufacturing With the Production System
April 21 2021 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
With 316L, Businesses Can Produce
Cost-Effective, End-Use Metal Parts for Extreme Temperature, Highly
Corrosive Applications on the World’s Fastest Metal 3D Printing
Platform
Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), a leader in mass production and
turnkey additive manufacturing solutions, today announced it has
qualified the use of 316L stainless steel for the Production
System™ platform, which leverages patent pending Single Pass
Jetting™ (SPJ) technology designed to achieve the fastest build
speeds in the metal additive manufacturing market.
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The Production System platform enables
printing this heavy industry fluid connector in 316L stainless
steel as a single, consolidated component and can support a
throughput of nearly 5,500 parts per week. (Photo: Business
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Known for its corrosion resistance and excellent mechanical
properties at extreme temperatures, 316L stainless steel is well
suited for applications in the most demanding conditions, such as
parts exposed to marine or pharmaceutical processing environments,
food preparation equipment, medical devices and surgical tooling.
It also exhibits excellent weldability by standard fusion and
resistance methods.
“The qualification of 316L stainless steel with leading
mechanical properties on the Production System platform is part of
our aggressive roadmap to support an array of materials for binder
jetting and a testament to the advantages of SPJ technology, which
enables mass production throughput without sacrificing part
performance and repeatability,” said Jonah Myerberg, co-founder and
CTO of Desktop Metal. “With 316L on the Production System P-50,
businesses will now be able to leverage additive manufacturing to
produce complex, end-use parts suitable for use in harsh
environments at volumes and costs competitive with conventional
manufacturing.”
316L Stainless Steel - Key Applications
Through extensive testing, the Desktop Metal materials science
team has validated that 316L stainless steel printed on Production
System technology and sintered by Desktop Metal meets MPIF 35
standards for structural powder metallurgy parts set by the Metal
Powder Industries Federation. Parts printed with 316L have
demonstrated excellent mechanical properties and corrosion
resistance, while significantly decreasing production time and part
cost.
- Rocker Arm for Salt Water Marine Environments Rocker
arms are used to open and close intake and exhaust valves on an
outboard marine engine. The use of 316L extends the part’s life and
provides corrosion resistance against harsh salt water
environments. Manufacturing on the Production System P-50 enables
the production of more than a thousand parts per day with ribbing
features and cutouts to deliver adequate strength and stiffness
while maintaining low weight and a small footprint versus the
standard cast alternatives, which require up to 8 to 14 weeks lead
time.
- Fluid Connector for Chemical Processing Plants Heavy
industry fluid connectors used in many chemical processing plants
need to be manufactured in 316L for corrosion resistance against
the chemicals moving through the part. The connector’s complex
internal channels make it impossible to manufacture as a single
component via conventional manufacturing methods. The Production
System P-50 enables printing the fluid connector in 316L as a
single, consolidated component and can support a throughput of
nearly 5,500 parts per week, at a fully burdened cost of
approximately $6.85 per part.
- Customized Surgical Tool for Medical Applications
Because 316L is a surgical-grade steel, it is an ideal material for
medical applications like surgical nozzles. By eliminating tooling,
additive manufacturing enables mass production runs of different
sized nozzles with no lead time, featuring internal channels that
are optimized for individual patient needs. Printing on the
Production System P-50 eliminates multiple fixturing steps
otherwise required for machining, and results in a throughput of
more than 24,000 parts per week at approximately $2.50 per part. By
comparison, machining the same part would cost $20.00 -$40.00 per
part, and require up to two months to create the same number of
parts the P-50 can produce in just one week.
- Gear Shift Knob for the Automotive Industry High touch
parts like this gear knob require materials that are easy to
sanitize. 316L is an optimal material choice because it offers
excellent corrosion resistance and cleans easily. This textured
gear shift is an example of mass customization made possible by
binder jetting on the Production System, which supports up to 200
parts per build and up to 6,700 parts per week. By comparison,
casting would require 8 to 14 weeks lead time for tooling, just to
begin volume production.
“As innovators in the automotive, medical, consumer products and
petrochemical industries continue to embrace the benefits of
additive manufacturing, implementing applications made possible
with 316L stainless steel, we will begin to see even more
widespread adoption of binder jetting technology,” said Myerberg.
“Materials that push the boundaries of what AM technology can do
will continue to advance the industry and drive unparalleled
throughput while significantly reducing cost and waste.”
The Production System - the World’s Fastest Way to 3D Print
Metal Parts At-Scale
Created by the inventors of binder jetting and single-pass
inkjet technology, the Production System is an industrial
manufacturing platform powered by Desktop Metal’s SPJ technology.
It is designed to achieve speeds up to 100 times those of legacy
powder bed fusion additive manufacturing technologies and enable
production quantities of up to millions of parts per year at costs
competitive with conventional mass production techniques. The
Production System platform consists of two printer models: the P-1,
a solution for process development and serial production
applications, and the P-50, a large form factor mass production
solution for end-use parts, scheduled to begin commercial shipments
in 2021. The Production System combines Desktop Metal engineered
binders with an open material platform, allowing customers to
produce high performance parts using the same low-cost metal
powders used in the Metal Injection Molding (MIM) industry. An
inert processing environment enables compatibility with a variety
of materials, including the now qualified 316L stainless steel as
well as high-performance alloys and even reactive metals, such as
aluminum and titanium.
For more information on the Production System platform, visit
https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/production.
About Desktop Metal
Desktop Metal, Inc., based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is
accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with an expansive
portfolio of 3D printing solutions, from rapid prototyping to mass
production. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing,
metallurgy, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet
challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make additive
manufacturing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers
around the world. Desktop Metal was selected as one of the world’s
30 most promising Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum
and named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies.
For more information, visit www.desktopmetal.com.
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whether as a result of new information, future events, or
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