protolabs, a leading digital manufacturing service bureau, has announced a partnership with electronic component supplierRS组件提供新的综合3D打印服务。
The new ‘Design and Manufacturing Solution’ will allow RS Components’ engineering and design customers to design parts through the company’sDesignSpark CAD软件在使用Protolabs的3D打印设施直接转移到制造之前。因此,多合一的服务封装了从设计到交付的添加剂制造工作流的所有阶段。
Bjoern Klaas, Vice President and Managing Director at Protolabs, Europe, said, “Our speed and excellence in digital manufacturing, rapidly creating even the most complex parts in a wide range of plastics and metals, means RS Components customers can enjoy a complete start-to-finish service; a broad offering that supports clients in all fields across the industrial sphere, giving them even more choice.”
端到端的3D打印与DesignSpark
DesignSpark是RS组件开发的免费使用3D CAD软件Ansys。该计划最初于2013年推出,旨在实现快速简便的产品开发和迭代,而无需用户学习复杂的传统CAD软件。使用STL文件生成功能,3D设计程序还与3D打印工作流程很好地集成在一起。
Once a part is designed in DesignSpark, customers will be able to upload their model straight to Protolabs’ established e-commerce platform. There, it will be analyzed for manufacturability, quoted, and 3D printed – all in one seamless process. Prototypes 3D printed via the Design and Manufacturing Solution can be fabricated in as little as a day (shipped within 1 – 15 days) and are guaranteed to be in accordance with predetermined functional requirements.
由于protolabs设施的扩展,客户将能够利用大量聚合物和金属3D打印技术。这包括选择性激光烧结(SLS),立体光刻(SLA),多射流融合(MJF),polyjet(3D印刷有机硅)和直接的金属激光烧结(DMLS)。
设计和制造解决方案3D打印服务最初只能向英国客户提供,但会在适当的时候扩展到更广泛的欧洲市场。
RS组件的小组负责人迈克·布雷(Mike Bray)补充说:“在迅速发展的工程空间中,可以访问可以促进快速提供原型或适合各种应用程序的零件的服务,这可以提供真正的竞争优势。在RS时,我们的使命是帮助客户最大化行业4.0周围的机会,既可以教育他们的最新技术创新,又可以使他们访问。我们与Protolabs的合作关系完美地支持了这一任务。”
需要按需制造
按需制造局(例如Protolabs)为不准备投资自己的3D打印机的公司提供了无麻烦的添加剂制造路线。对于许多项目而言,将原型的3D打印外包通常是开发产品的最具成本效益的方式,并且通过RS组件伙伴关系之类的开发,这比以往任何时候都更加精简。
今年夏天早些时候,金属和碳纤维3D打印机制造商标记宣布计划建立一项基于澳大利亚的服务dedicated to producing food-contact components。The company will work with the澳大利亚肉类加工商公司(AMPC) and office printing firm柯尼卡美能达建立用于快速3D打印备用肉类加工零件的工作流程。
Elsewhere, in the UK, Yorkshire-based 3D printing consultancyAME集团recently launchedits new 3D printing service bureau, AME-3D在投资75万英镑的投资之后NPIF-MERCIA股权融资。资本注入是AME Group 20年历史的首次重大投资,将使该公司能够雇用新员工,购买其他设备并推出两个新品牌,其中第一个是AME-3D。
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