The New Name in Additive Manufacturing

What’s Cool

The unique value of this product is that you can build 3D structures with metal for medical and industrial applications from 3D CAD data. Renishaw’s laser melting is a pioneering additive manufacturing process capable of producing fully dense metal parts direct from 3D CAD using a high-powered fiber laser. Parts are built from a range of fine metal powders that are fully melted in a tightly controlled atmosphere layer by layer in thicknesses ranging from 20 to 100 microns. Through a digitally driven process, you can manufacture organic or highly complex geometries. It provides an avenue for low volume manufacturing of complex metal parts in specialist materials and functional testing of production quality prototypes.

Who’s It For

The technology is already widely employed for the manufacture of custom medical implants, lightweight aerospace and motorsports parts, efficient heat exchangers, and injection molding inserts with conformal cooling channels.

From patient-specific orthopaedic implants to volume production of medical devices featuring hybrid structures and textures, laser melting has the potential to unlock manufacturing capabilities that combine free-form shapes and intricate lattice structures. This improves osseointegration in orthopaedics, leading to much improved patient outcomes. It also allows aerospace and motorsport companies to ‘add lightness’ to components.

From tooling inserts, featuring conformal cooling, to lightweight structures for aerospace and high technology applications, laser melting gives designers more freedom, resulting in structures and shapes that would otherwise be constrained by conventional processes or the tooling requirements of volume production. Laser melting is complementary to conventional machining technologies and forms part of a manufacturing system including heat treatment, surface post-processing, and directly contributes to reduced lead times, tooling costs and material waste.

Materials

• Aluminum

• Cobalt Chrome

• Inconel

• Stainless Steel

• Titanium

 "We’re pleased to add this system to our equipment list and expand our capacity to deliver direct metal part manufacturing services. We thoroughly researched our options and selected the Renishaw AM250 due to its reputation for building precision titanium prototypes and parts."

Specs

• Build Area: 245 x 245 x 300 mm (360 mm Z axis by request)

• Build rate: 5cm³ - 20cm³ per hour

• Layer thickness: 20 μm - 100 μm

• Laser beam diameter: 70 μm diameter at powder surface

• Laser options: 200 W

• Power supply: 230 V 1 PH, 16 A

For more information visit: www.renishaw.com