Velo3D has introduced that Kratos SRE, Inc., a subsidiary of Kratos Protection & Safety Options, Inc., has acquired a Velo3D Sapphire 3D printer to assist its know-how improvement and talent to handle defence trade prospects’ evolving necessities.
The system might be operated by Kratos SRE in its increasing speedy prototyping and manufacturing centre, the place it will likely be used to speed up the vertical integration of important provide chains in sure areas of the broader Kratos organisation.
“It’s essential to our crew to leverage new, superior manufacturing applied sciences so we are able to preserve our management within the protection trade and higher serve our prospects,” mentioned Michael Johns, Kratos SRE Senior Vice President. “With Velo3D’s answer, we anticipate to have the ability to additional unlock high-speed manufacturing capabilities that cut back lead instances and decrease prices of the components we develop. As well as, it should permit us to quickly innovate and speed up design cycles for components utilized in current platforms.”
Kratos SRE has been a long-time consumer of Velo3D’s metallic additive manufacturing answer, leveraging the know-how by means of the Velo3D Contract Producer Community. Kratos SRE focuses on designing and constructing components, methods, and constructions for excessive environments.
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The corporate additionally oversees the Characterisation of Additive Manufactured Metals (CAMM) program, which analyses additive supplies to know course of variation in specimens and assessments designs forward of high-volume manufacturing. Knowledge gathered by means of CAMM is aggregated right into a supplies database of key course of variations, which is used to higher perceive the properties of additively manufactured components and determine new use instances for the know-how.
“Ahead-thinking protection firms like Kratos are more and more adopting additive manufacturing know-how as a result of it could allow steady design enhancements and unlock extremely scalable manufacturing to fulfill fluctuating calls for,” mentioned Brad Kreger, Velo3D CEO and EVP of Operations. “The great thing about our answer is that firms can start by leveraging the Velo3D Contract Producer Community after which buy their very own printer as their demand for components will increase. As soon as their wants exceed the throughput functionality of a single machine, it’s easy to scale manufacturing to different printers, together with our giant format Sapphire XC.”
Velo3D’s totally built-in additive manufacturing answer is utilized by a variety of American defence firms that present components to the Division of Protection (DoD).
Velo3D printers not too long ago achieved the very best stage of safety compliance the DoD gives – Inexperienced-level Safety Technical Implementation Information (STIG) compliance. This certification permits Velo3D printers to hook up with the DoD’s Secret Web Protocol Router Community (SIPRNet), making it simpler for organisations and firms to accumulate the printers to be used in DoD-related tasks.
