The companies Headmade Materials, AM Solutions and Neue Materialien Bayreuth have launched the joint AutoSmooth project. The aim is to develop a fully automated process chain for the Cold Metal Fusion (CMF) 3D printing process.
CMF is a powder-based metal 3D printing process that is intended to enable cost-effective series production. So far, however, there has been a lack of automated solutions for post-processing the printed parts.
In the AutoSmooth project, processes for automated unpacking and surface finishing of the components are now to be developed within three years. According to the companies involved, this is the key to industrial series production with CMF.
Each partner is contributing specific know-how: Headmade Materials the CMF expertise, AM Solutions the experience in surface processing and Neue Materialien Bayreuth the scientific competence.
If the automation succeeds, this could mean a big step for series production with metal 3D printing. At the Formnext trade show in November, the partners plan to provide information on the current status of the AutoSmooth project.
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