Production System Binder Jetting Technology
Enables the Mass Production of High-Performance Copper Parts for
Automotive, Aerospace, and Electronics
Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) today announced it has qualified
commercially pure copper (> 99.95% purity) for additive
manufacturing on 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 industry. Customers can now leverage SPJ technology
for the production of high-performance copper parts at scale across
a broad variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, and
electronics.
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Liquid cooling plates are used to
regulate temperature on high-performance microprocessors. Coolant
flows through the fins, which provide a large surface area to
transfer heat from the passing fluid to the heat sink in order to
cool the chip that is attached to the outer body. These cooling
geometries (visible in the cutaway view of the part) typically
require capital-intensive, long lead time, and skilled
labor-intensive production processes. Whereas conventional
production methods for this liquid cooling plate required machining
and assembling multiple separate components due to restrictions on
tool access, binder jetting on the Production System can produce
the part as a single component, reducing manufacturing and
operational complexity, part cost, and lead time. (Photo: Business
Wire)
With its excellent thermal and electrical conductivity,
commercially pure copper is an ideal material for applications
requiring heat or electricity transfer, such as cold plates, pucks
and manifolds, heat sinks, heat exchangers, and bus bars used in
power-intensive electrical applications. It is the
third-most-consumed industrial metal in the world.
“Copper has been a highly requested material from many of our
customers and prospects, and has applications spanning a broad
variety of industries, from thermal hardware found in air and
liquid cooling systems to conformally cooled coils for transmission
of high frequency currents,” said Jonah Myerberg, co-founder and
CTO of Desktop Metal. “We are excited to be able to expand our
extensive Production System materials portfolio to support
customers looking to 3D print electrically and thermally conductive
components at scale and at a fraction of the cost of conventional
manufacturing methods.”
Desktop Metal’s materials science team has qualified and fully
characterized commercially pure copper (C10300) printed on
Production System technology with greater than 99.95 percent
purity, enabling excellent thermal and electrical conductivity.
Manufacturers can now print copper parts on the Production System
with significant geometric complexity in a single step instead of
brazing multiple conventionally produced copper components
together, eliminating a time-intensive and expensive process prone
to error and waste. With the geometric freedom enabled by binder
jetting, engineers can also explore new, high-performance designs
not possible with conventional manufacturing methods, such as the
lattice structures and conformal cooling channels to improve heat
transfer.
An example of a key application includes:
- Liquid Cooling Plate Liquid cooling plates are used to
regulate temperature on high-performance microprocessors. Coolant
flows through the fins, which provide a large surface area to
transfer heat from the passing fluid to the heat sink in order to
cool the chip that is attached to the outer body. These cooling
geometries typically require capital-intensive, long lead time, and
skilled labor-intensive production processes, such as skiving and
machining, given the challenges associated with achieving precision
and repeatability in such a small form factor. In addition these
commonly used conventional manufacturing processes are subtractive
and produce excess scrap material, greatly increasing the
associated part costs. Whereas conventional production methods for
this liquid cooling plate required machining and assembling
multiple separate components due to restrictions on tool access,
binder jetting on the Production System can produce the part as a
single component, reducing manufacturing and operational
complexity, part cost, and lead time. The Production System unlocks
the capacity to print hundreds of cooling plates per day, enabling
cost-effective volume production. Copper is the ideal material for
heat exchangers due to its excellent conductivity, maximizing heat
dissipation from the electronic chip to the cooling fluid.
The Production System - 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. 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 high-performance alloys and even
reactive metals, such as aluminum and titanium. To learn more about
the Production System, visit:
www.desktopmetal.com/products/production.
In addition to copper, the materials library for the Production
System platform has expanded to include D2 tool steel, 420
stainless steel, nickel alloy IN625, 4140 low-alloy steel, 316L
stainless steel, and 17-4PH stainless steel, each of which have
been qualified by Desktop Metal. The platform also supports several
customer-qualified materials, including silver and gold, and
Desktop Metal plans to add additional metals to its portfolio,
including tool steels, stainless steels, superalloys, and more.
To learn more about copper and the Production System materials
portfolio, visit: www.desktopmetal.com/materials.
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,
named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies, and
the 2021 winner of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award in
materials and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech Award for
sustainability. 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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