领先的数字制造公司Protolabs已推出了用于金属3D打印的生产服务。称为高需求直接金属激光烧结（DMLS）已开发新产品是为了帮助客户生产高性能金属3D打印零件，并与客户一致。
“The designers and engineers we work with in industries like aerospace and medtech are choosing additive manufacturing for complex components in high-requirement applications,” comments Greg Thompson, Global Product Manager for 3D printing at Protolabs.
“These new production capabilities help them optimize their designs to enhance performance, reduce costs, and consolidate supply chains—and do so much faster than ever before.”
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Headquartered in Maple Plain, Minnesota, Protolabs offers digital manufacturing services from 12 locations around the globe. A 77,000 sq. ft. facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, is responsible for fulfilling all of the company’s 3D printing orders for North America housing more than 100 additive manufacturing systems for both metal and polymer fabrication.
对于欧洲，3D打印是由在德国慕尼黑附近共同置于的两个设施来处理的。虽然比北卡罗来纳州的旗舰店小，但Protolabs计划在不久的将来重新排列这些设施，以成为其欧洲3D印刷操作的核心。
The company is a founding member of theGE增材制造合作伙伴网络, and麻省理工学院的加法制造财团。Recently, through working with GE, Protolabs was involved in a high profile project for纽约大都会晚会，帮助设计和制造时装设计师Zac Posen的晚礼服。
To support its growth in DMLS, the company recently added more than twenty-five Concept Laser Mlab and M2 machines from GE Additive.
From prototyping to production
目前，原贴型在其所有业务领域（钣金，注射成型，CNC加工和3D打印）的动力是从原型化转变为生产 - 正如先前对Protolabs President and CEO Vicki Holt。霍尔特（Holt）尤其与高需求DML有关，“由于公司希望将我们更多地用于生产零件，因此我们提供的服务必须有所改变。”这是由于Holt添加了额外的“真正确定零件的前期工程”以供最终使用。“当我们获得这些高需求项目时，我们还必须与客户制定质量控制计划，以及我们将如何确保我们可以满足他们对生产部分的需求。”
DMLS at Protolabs is ISO 9001 and AS9100D-certified providing industry-accepted quality standards and application within the aerospace sector. With such high grade metal parts, Protolabs applies secondary processes to improve the strength, dimensional accuracy, and cosmetic appearance of metal parts. This includes post-process machining, tapping, reaming, and heat treatments for the components. With the new DMLS production service, the company has also introduced heightened quality control measures like powder analysis, material traceability, and process validation for metal customers.
Thompson concludes, “We’re committed to servicing our customers’ needs throughout the product life cycle across both conventional and additive manufacturing processes.”
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