Robotic DED metal 3d printing with meltio
ROBOTIC METAL PRINTING USING WIRE DED
The rear side is completely removable to have sufficient space for repair and assembly. This give all the needed access to the 3D printing metal technology housed inside
ACCESSIBILITY TO MELTIO WIRE DED LASER HEAD
The interface is divided into two main panels, the right one has two hinged doors that cover up the wire DED spools and the robot cabinet IRC5.
The primary monitor is placed on the left side to ensure an easy-to-use experience for the robot metal printing and a physical panel is equipped with power and an emergency button to stop the robotic metal printing at an instant
INTERFACE PANELS FOR WIRE DED ACCESS
The maintenance side is designed for reparability. It counts with 2 layers of accessibility. To perform the daily tasks you can easily set up the folding desktop with an integrated PC and also open the small door to refill the refrigeration fluid for the SMC HRS chiller, all to simply your robot metal AM experience.
Layer 1:
Workstation PC for control of the robot metal AM process and refrigerator refill
DAILY MAINTENANCE OF ROBOT METAL AM CELL
High Complexity
Create highly complex parts with infinite degrees of freedom.
Retrofitting
Provide new capability to any robot arm by turning it into a robotic metal printing 3D system.
Part Repair
Cost-effective component repair, part augmentation and feature addition.
Large Size
No inherent constraints when the working envelope is only limited by the size of the robot metal AM motion system.
Open Materials Platform with Wire DED
Mild Steels
Cheap and ductile, with unparalleled machinability and weldability.
Carbon Steels
High impact strength, retain hardness at high temperatures.
Titanium
High strength to weight ratio and corrosion resistance.
Nickel
High versatility, outstanding heat and corrosion resistance.
Stainless Steels
Excellent strength and corrosion resistance.
Copper
Under development
Upgrades and Accessories
Hot Wire
Programmable power supply that preheats the material to increase the deposition rate of this Wire DED system
Dual Wire
This option allows to 3D print two wire materials sequentially with very quick wire switches.
Powder Feeder
Necessary to 3D print from powder feedstock, unlocks on the fly metal alloying.
External Wire Drum
Draw from an external wire source. Drums from 100kg may be used for convenience.
Excellent Mechanical Properties
Meltio’s compact heat affected zone process achieves exceptional mechanics, decreased thermal stress and near isotropic properties, exceeding casting and forging material properties.
Consistent 99.998% densification
Meltio’s WP-LMD produces fully dense parts with superior microstructure. Exceeding the casting and forging properties, and in certain cases, matching up to wrought material properties.
From 0.3 to 1.2mm layer heights
Meltio’s process allow for an exceptional balance between print speed and surface roughness. Under some conditions, Meltio’s surface roughness using wire can outperform those produced with powder based processes.
Post-process or use as printed
For many applications printed in high-resolution little to no post treatment is necessary. Near net shapes can be post-processed using heat, bead blasting, polishing, brushing or machining.
High Power
Laser power of 1.2kW and optional hot wire system for increased deposition rates.
Extremely Efficient
The wire deposition utilizes 100% of the material and the heat input is kept extremely low making this system a very cost effective 3D metal printing technology
