The BMW Group has built-in a Solukon SFP770 unpacking and cleansing station for 3D printed plastic components at its Additive Manufacturing Campus.
With the SFP770, the BMW Group will bel capable of mix two essential post-processing steps into one, streamlining its present prototyping workflows.
The SFP770, which makes use of ionised compressed air to scrub and end SLS components, is suitable with the EOS P 770, Formiga P110 and EOS P 500 techniques. Designed to embody the 3D printer’s total construct envelope, Solukon says the machine can course of a totally loaded construct field with an meeting area of 150 litres in solely half-hour, making it attainable to finish a number of jobs per day.
After components are loaded into the SFP770, a vibrating sieve cowl rotates gently overhead following an optimum programmable course of that progressively unpacks parts. Unfastened powder is extracted from the sieve cowl and moved to a recycling unit, whereas the construct field rotates in the direction of the basket and opens the sieve cowl. Now functioning as a slide, the sieve cowl locations the components into the basket, which rotates within the path of the blasting unit and begins turning. Glass bead blasting and the ionised air then work to take away residual powders. Customers are capable of programme on-line course of parameters, equivalent to rotation angle, blast depth, distance and basket rotation, whereas the automated switch course of will be paused to take away sure parts that shouldn’t be cleaned mechanically.
“As a result of so many course of parameters will be programmed, the SFP770 achieves the perfect cleansing outcomes, whatever the half materials and with none handbook intermediate steps. Our system affords one other benefit: components of various styles and sizes will be cleaned on the identical time,” commented CEO and CTO Andreas Hartmann of Solukon.
BMW was just lately a part of a gaggle of collaborators that declared a pilot automated additive manufacturing manufacturing line successful, with BMW now set to proceed utilizing the automated workflow to provide plastic components for the automotive trade.
