Materialise Introduces Build Processor Support for Desktop Metal Binder Jetting Systems
November 10 2020 - 4:15PM
Materialise today announced support for Desktop Metal Binder
Jetting™ technologies, including Desktop Metal’s Shop System™ and
Production System™ platforms. This strategic partnership will help
reduce the complexity for companies looking to scale their 3D
printing operations. Materialise also continues to pave the way
towards improved machine connectivity by offering manufacturers
more insight into the production process.
Support for Metal Binder Jetting
As companies scale their metal 3D printing processes and
integrate these operations with existing and proven production
processes, they are confronted with increasingly complex
environments and diverse machine technologies. Today’s announcement
supports Materialise’s strategy to provide these companies with a
more seamless, end-to-end workflow.
The partnership includes the introduction of a Desktop Metal
Build Processor to support metal Binder Jetting technology for the
company’s Shop System and Production System technologies.
Materialise Build Processors are widely used in industrial
printing, translating 3D designs into machine-specific build files
for a variety of machines. As part of the announcement, Materialise
has also introduced sintering support generation for metal Binder
Jetting as part of Magics’ SG+ module and metal Binder Jetting
enhanced 3D nesting. This integrated solution, compatible with
Materialise’s software suite, will help to create a
better-connected workflow and improve productivity for metal Binder
Jetting.
“Our partnership with Desktop Metal supports our next-generation
Build Processor strategy to remove some of the remaining barriers
to adoption of 3D printing as part of a connected, industrial
manufacturing process,” says Stefaan Motte, Vice President and
Managing Director of Materialise Software. “Removing barriers of
speed, scale and cost requires a closer integration between
software and machine.”
Desktop Metal, a leader in mass production and turnkey additive
manufacturing solutions, will make the Build Processor available as
an add-on software offering with its advanced metal 3D printing
solutions, the Shop System for mid-volume manufacturing, and the
Production System for high volume mass production. Metal
Binder Jetting is carving out a valuable share in the metal
manufacturing market by offering specific production advantages,
including cost efficiency, accuracy and speed. With its innovative
approaches, Desktop Metal is changing the way engineering teams
produce metal parts.
“From the start, Desktop Metal has set out to disrupt
traditional metal manufacturing with innovative products and
technologies,” said Arjun Aggarwal, Vice President of Product and
Business Development at Desktop Metal. “The combined strength
of our metal 3D printing solutions with Materialise’s three decades
of experience in 3D printing software and application development
will help to accelerate the transformation of manufacturing with
end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions.”
The Shop System is designed to bring metal additive
manufacturing to machine and job shops with an affordable, turnkey
solution that achieves exceptional surface finish parts with rich
feature detail at speeds up to 10 times those of legacy powder bed
fusion additive manufacturing technologies. Created by leading
inventors of binder jetting and single-pass inkjet technology, the
Production System is designed to be the fastest way to 3D print
metal parts at scale. The system is an industrial manufacturing
solution designed to achieve speeds up to 100 times those of legacy
powder bed fusion additive manufacturing technologies, enabling
production quantities of up to millions of parts per year at costs
competitive with conventional mass production techniques.
Advancing Serial Additive Manufacturing
Successfully scaling additive manufacturing operations confronts
manufacturers with increasingly diverse, complex and distributed
environments. Optimizing production processes requires the
possibility to fine-tune the various build parameters. By
monitoring and analysing build data, manufacturers gain better
insight into the production process and are able to make better
informed decision about production planning. With the introduction
of its Machine Connectivity Pack, as part of Materialise Streamics
8.2, Materialise is paving the way towards a more open market model
by offering users actionable insights into their operations,
allowing them to unlock the full potential of the technology.
“We believe access to build data is crucial to advance our
industry and usher in a new era of industrial scale additive
manufacturing”, says Stefaan Motte. “That’s why Materialise has
always advocated open connectivity standards. I am excited that
leading machine vendors such as Desktop Metal, share our beliefs
and support machine connectivity through open standards such as MT
Connect and OPC-UA.”
About Materialise
Materialise incorporates three decades of 3D printing experience
into a range of software solutions and 3D printing services, which
together form the backbone of the 3D printing industry.
Materialise’s open and flexible solutions enable players in a wide
variety of industries, including healthcare, automotive, aerospace,
art and design, and consumer goods, to build innovative 3D printing
applications that aim to make the world a better and healthier
place. Headquartered in Belgium, with branches worldwide,
Materialise combines the largest group of software developers in
the industry with one of the largest 3D printing facilities in the
world. For additional information, please visit:
www.materialise.com.
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.
Desktop Metal, which is celebrating its five-year anniversary,
recently signed a definitive business combination agreement with
Trine Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company led
by Leo Hindery, Jr., and HPS Investment Partners, a global credit
investment firm with over $60 billion in assets under management.
For more information, visit www.trineacquisitioncorp.com.
Kristof Sehmke
Materialise
kristof.sehmke@materialise.be
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