BMW installs Solukon SFP770 post-processing system to support prototyping of SLS parts
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 in a position to 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 appropriate with the EOS P 770, Formiga P110 and EOS P 500 programs. Designed to embody the 3D printer’s total construct envelope, Solukon says the machine can course of a completely loaded construct field with an meeting house 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 regularly unpacks elements. Unfastened powder is extracted from the sieve cowl and moved to a recycling unit, whereas the construct field rotates in 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 course of the blasting unit and begins turning. Glass bead blasting and the ionised air then work to take away residual powders. Customers are in a position to programme on-line course of parameters, equivalent to rotation angle, blast depth, distance and basket rotation, whereas the automated switch course of could be paused to take away sure elements that shouldn’t be cleaned robotically.
“As a result of so many course of parameters could be programmed, the SFP770 achieves the most effective cleansing outcomes, whatever the half materials and with none guide intermediate steps. Our system presents one other benefit: components of various sizes and styles could be cleaned on the identical time,” commented CEO and CTO Andreas Hartmann of Solukon.
BMW was 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 business.
