The availability of stainless-steel for additive manufacturing is on the rise. Due to its high chromium content with reduced carbon content, stainless steels are desirable in applications which require corrosion resistance, high shear strength, and excellent toughness. Stainless steels are extremely versatile and are utilized in many industries, including automotive, aerospace and medical. Binder jetting opens new possibilities and advantages …
What Is A Sintering In A Binder Jetting 3D Printing Process?
The Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing process is a two-step process where the components are printed and densified in separate steps. The printing step consists of high-precision binder jetting printing on metal powder bed. Metal Powder is bonded together when binder is jetted on the powder bed. In a cyclical way, the powder bed is lowered and recoated with additional loose …
Metal Injection Molding vs. Binder Jetting Metal 3D Printing
When it comes to making either prototypes or serial production, designers have a range of manufacturing options to choose from. Two options, however, have a few areas in common, complicating the choice. The two options are Metal Injection Molding (MIM) and Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing (BJAM). These technologies are particularly well suited to manufacture small, complex geometries. Both can be …
Key Applications For Polymer Additive Manufacturing
Metals may be getting a lot of attention lately, but polymer materials are not taking a back seat in additive manufacturing. A number of applications are well suited for polymer additive manufacturing. Many polymer materials can be used instead of traditional metal or composite materials as they offer similar or longer life than those traditional materials. These polymer materials include …
5 Reasons To Choose Binder Jetting For Metal Parts
Several Additive Manufacturing/ 3D printing processes can work with metal materials, with each using a different technique to fabricate a final object. Binder jetting introduced a fast way to build parts out of both polymer and metal materials, but here we focus on metal materials. In brief, binder jetting is a two-step process where the components are printed and densified …
What Is A Digital Inventory, and Why You Need One
One of the overlooked benefits of additive technology is its ability to build a part only as needed. The intelligent use of additive manufacturing combined with 3D data makes it possible to create a Digital Inventory of parts. A digital inventory is really a data record of parts you use or make. A digital inventory reduces the need to stock …
What Is Metal Binder Jetting?
The additive manufacturing industry consists of a number of technologies that can build an object one layer at a time. One of these technologies is known as Binder jetting. This technology originated at MIT in 1993, and is basically a variation of material jetting. It involves a liquid binding agent that joins powder particles to form an object. Like all …