On a pan-industrial basis, there is a drive to adopt metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies as true production alternatives to traditional fabrication processes. This is driven in large part by the fact that throughout all industry sectors companies are seeking to exploit the inherent advantages of AM.
AM allows for design optimization that leads to the creation of geometrically complex and innovative products impossible using conventional manufacturing processes. In addition, AM allows for the consolidation of multi-part assemblies into a smaller number of printed parts, often in unique or multi-material combinations.
Metal AM also saves time in production, eliminating the long lead times associated with casting and forging, and allowing production direct from a CAD file without the need for complex and expensive tooling. Costs are further rationalised as the AM process reduces material consumption and labour and assembly expense.
The benefits of Metal AM allow for the creation of geometrically complex and innovative products
Wayland Additive’s NeuBeam® metal AM solution for the first time addresses the limitations of alternative metal AM processes and makes available to industry a stable and flexible AM process that opens up new opportunities for application development and production with a wider choice of metal materials. Talk to us today if you are interesting in finding out more about our process.
Get in touchWayland Additive’s NeuBeam metal AM solution is ideally suited for complex, high value metal applications where the emphasis is on process reliability and stability, the production of extremely accurate and fully dense parts in a wide range of materials (including materials not compatible with traditional eBeam or laser PBF processes, such as refractory metals and highly reflective alloys).
The NeuBeam system allows for complete control over material properties, meaning that manufacturers get the parts that they want, not just the best they can get.
Wayland Additive is eager to set up collaborative R&D projects with companies that have demanding applications for which the NeuBeam technology is ideally suited. Manufacturers will benefit from the use of a metal AM system that is open and therefore allows the freedom to develop new process parameters quickly and simply, and which has complete process transparency and control which facilitates monitoring and optimisation of manufacturing processes.
Wayland is addressing the fundamental physics of the eBeam AM process to make it fully stable, more reliable and completely flexible:
No gas flow limitations on part size
Advanced Process Monitoring & Control
No stress parts
No distortion
Part traceability/
qualification
Large stable
operating window
Easy machine
calibration
No smokes
No mirrors
More stable than
laser or e-beam
Transparent process
Designed for production
Full control over materials properties
Freedom/
tools for multi materials
More tolerant process
Design freedom, variable supports/
Sinter Cake
Simpler postprocessing
No Black Box, fully open parameters
Excellent cooling control
Thermal history
Stress free parts
Full grain control
Large stable operating window
Fully dense parts
Powder recycling
Very low oxygen pick up
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