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3 ways the Royal Netherlands Navy is using INTAMSYS 3D printers in 2022

INTAMSYS — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:48:45 +0000

3D printing is becoming an increasingly key technology for the Royal Netherlands Navy. With the INTAMSYS 3D printing of parts on frigates, they will be less dependent on complex logistics operations.

They have been using the FUNMAT PRO 410 for parts printing. It supports fire resistance and strong materials, also can withstand temperatures up to 150°C without issue.

This year, the Navy has revealed how it continues to use INTAMSYS printers for a variety of tasks, printing replacement parts in high-performance materials like PEKK-CF. This article looks at three ways the Royal Netherlands Navy deployed the FFF 3D printers to support on-land troops during a military exercise in Suriname.

Amplifier brackets

Most consumer-level FFF 3D printers cannot print brackets capable of supporting exceptionally heavy weights. Common filaments like PLA and ABS are durable enough for prototypes and low-impact applications, but it takes a much stronger material to guarantee high performance in the heat and humidity of Suriname.

During the military exercise in South America, crew members needed brackets to support a 20 kg signal amplifier so it could be mounted near the top of a 25-meter pole. Doing so would reduce the need to use long cables and consequently boost the signal of the antenna on top of the pole. Since the crew didn’t have brackets with them, they used an INTAMSYS printer to make some out of PEKK-CF, a high-performance material that requires a high-temperature 3D printer with extrusion temperatures of at least 350 °C. Weaker materials could buckle under heavy weight and would not be safe to use.

Valve wheels

A naval ship or submarine contains a huge number of valves for regulating pressure and fluid flows. Such valves control the flow of fresh water, ballast water, and liquid for hydraulic systems, among other things. Valves have wheels that allow them to be manually adjusted, and these valve wheels are regularly removed for cleaning and maintenance. However, they sometimes break or get lost, which means ships must carry spares.

Because there are so many different types and sizes of valve wheels, DMI workers have been using their INTAMSYS 3D printers to fabricate wheels on demand rather than carrying a huge number of prefabricated aluminum/steel spares on board. Valve wheels printed in high-strength materials do not overheat and can last a long time; some are even installed permanently.

Orthotics

Ships and machines aren’t the only things that require maintenance on long missions. Crew members can suffer minor and major injuries in the field, and ships aren’t always within reach of a medical center.

The DMI’s additive specialists have been working with the Radboud University Medical Center (part of the Radboud University Nijmegen) on a research project for developing custom orthotics. Using a mobile 3D scanning application developed by Belgian company Spentys, technicians can design and 3D print custom-fit orthotics to treat minor injuries. A variety of materials can be used, including PEKK, ABS, and PP, and the tightness of the devices can be altered over time with adjustable straps as the injury heals.

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/miss5ugJfy4

Learn more about the FUNMAT PRO 410

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INTAMSYS launches its new desktop 3D printer at Formnext 2022

INTAMSYS — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:37:00 +0000

Once again, Formnext had another successful global additive manufacturing trade show in Frankfurt, Germany.

With 29,581 attendees and 802 exhibitors from 96 nations, it is the leading international trade fair for industrial Additive Manufacturing and advanced production technologies.

As an innovative high-tech 3D printing company, INTAMSYS launched the new engineering-grade 3d printer FUNMAT PRO 310 on the first day of Formnext.

The FUNMAT PRO 310 has a variety of features that raise its quality even further.

A reusable molecular sieve and an independent, sealed drying filament box work together to keep the machine’s humidity levels low over the long term without the need to dry the filament before printing. This is especially helpful for materials that absorb moisture, like nylon (PA).

Independent dual extruder (IDEX) dual nozzle system: “plug-and-play” and “easy to remove”.
This comprises a variety of printing settings, including support, dual material, mirror, and duplicate mode. ASA, ABS, PC, PC-ABS, PA, and PA-CF are just a few examples of engineering materials that it can 3D print.

Printing capability and nozzle design with IDEX dual nozzle system

It can also print water-soluble/easily peeled support materials.

The FUNMAT PRO 310’s 7-inch, full-color touchscreen sports a revolutionary interface that is quick and simple to use.

The FUNMAT PRO 310’s 7-inch touchscreen

Features that are made possible by this include:

Automatic multi-point leveling that is intelligent
Real-time motion accuracy compensation
Conventional API interfaces
The seamless integration of industry 4.0 with production execution systems to satisfy client demand.

and more…

The FUNMAT PRO 310 adds a desktop system to the lineup, completing INTAMSYS’s range.

We are glad to have our trusted customers – Weerg, 4D Concepts GmbH, Richter Lighting Technologies, CAEP partners like BASF Forward AM, Victrex, and partners, who came from all around the globe, to celebrate the moment. Thank you for your continuing support, we’ll be back next year!

Impressions of the Formnext 2022

Bringing desktop 3D printing to the next - industrial level

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Solving challenges in the construction industry with innovative architecture and 3D printing

INTAMSYS — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:34:21 +0000

Globally, over 50% of waste comes from construction and demolition work. Buildings and construction projects are responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest share of this emission coming from manufacturing raw materials, with packaging and transportation following closely.

As a manufacturing company, we at Richter Lighting Technologies GmbH are clear with our responsibilities and have been driving our main innovations, toward sustainable development of industrial solutions to meet the challenges of the construction sector

Bernd and Marion Richter, founders of RiCHTER Lighting Technologies GmbH

These challenges are characterized by the following points:

Reduce the environmental footprint of the construction sector
Holistic consideration of the materials used over entire product cycle (selection of recyclable materials, reduction of materials used).
Reduce construction cost and completion times
Reduce arduous and risky physical labor.

RiCHTER USE CASES

Discover Richter Lighting Technologies GmbH; their project use cases range from creating parts that combine profiles into complex shapes to hold fabrics in our ceiling systems, to using 3D-printed parts to integrate into standardized architectural structures while maintaining the overall strength of the entire structure.

SUSPENDED CEILING SYSTEMS

An example is their most recently completed project was the suspended ceiling systems in the lobbies of the 50 Hudson Yards building in New York City. They drew from their expertise in multiple fields, their experience from past projects, and leveraged some of the most innovative technologies to meet clients’ requirements.

For this project, RiCHTER’s team needed to create complex components to combine multiple profiles for architectural structures and to hold their fabrics in the ceiling systems. To achieve this goal, they needed a material with specific properties, and a 3D printer that can get the best out of the materials.

The material that had the required properties was the ULTEM 9085 filament, a polyetherimide (PEI) plastic and the 3D printer used to achieve this task was the INTAMSYS FUNMAT PRO 610HT. It also has a controlled heated chamber, that was set to about 200 °C, which is necessary in order to achieve strong layer bonding for the ULTEM 9085 filament because of its glass transition temperature of 186° C. The printer has a nozzle temperature that goes up to 500 °C, adequate for this material because of its high melting point.

The result was:

Very complex integrable shapes, that the concept of milling could not even be considered.
Very durable components with strong layer bonding.
Lightweight and highly flame-retardant components.
Reduced materials with infill structure.

3D printed parts with
ULTEM 9085 for architectural use.

UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENT

Another example is when they use the BASF Ultrafuse® PC/ABS FR for their high-end architectural projects.

The major challenge for some projects was achieving a combination of different materials, assembled as a single piece, and shipped for easy, on-site installation.

This component had to have the following requirements:

Remain invisible
Excellent surface quality to act as a frame for fabric systems.
High durability & flame retardant

They achieved this unique architectural component using innovative technologies like (3D printing, 3D engineering, etc.) and thanks to the philosophy at Richter Lighting Technologies GmbH.

3D printed parts with
BASF Ultrafuse® PC/ABS FR for architectural use.

RICHTER PHILOSOPHY

Richter Lighting Technologies GmbH, now a global manufacturer and supplier of modular lighting and acoustic ceiling systems, uses a philosophy – the 90-10 philosophy – which at the highest level is that RLT does 90% of the work and clients do 10%.

The 90-10 philosophy consists of carefully curated synergetic elements that enable RLT to provide ‘clear cost, clear lead-time, clear quality throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Some of these key elements are:

A team with very diverse skills, experience, ages, and cultures from over 30 different countries.
A growing knowledge base and set of reusable technical parts derived from decades of experience and over 250 successfully completed projects.
A preplanned, predefined kit premanufactured with industrial precision that the customer assembles to an integrated product customized for him.
Assembled, packaged, and shipped in a numbered order for easy on-site installation that can be done by any professional.
A custom plenum space that can be implemented on demand and anywhere within the entire system to meet the customers’ needs

This philosophy is implemented primarily to

1) understand the challenges of the customer and the respective project during planning and construction and

2) develop and provide clients with the best solution that perfectly fits their needs and requirements

Richter lighting technologies GmbH

Address: Im Morgen 1

D-73540 Heubach

Website: https://richter-lt.de/
Phone: +49 (0)7173 71440 0
Mail: info@richter-lt.de
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/richter-lt/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Richter-lighting-technologies-GmbH

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Discover the story of WEERG, a leading 3D Printing and CNC machining online service company

INTAMSYS — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:13:24 +0000

Learn how and why they adopted 3D printing to bring their business to another level

Located in the surroundings of Venice, Italy, WEERG was established in November 2015.
The company is the result of its owner’s dream, Matteo Rigamonti, and has become over the years a leader printing service bureau and one of the most popular online quote estimators. Discover WEERG’ journey and their collaboration with INTAMSYS.

The company started with CNC machining services. Indeed, not such a long time ago, getting CNC parts delivered as well as getting a quote for CNC parts were exhaustive processes. Matteo decided to establish a company that would answer his needs.

The company’s goals are to offer – easy, – online quotations through their website and – fast delivery of the parts (within 3 days), putting back the client’s satisfaction first.

They receive on average up to 20,000 quotes a day!
It is so popular that many companies even use their quote system to make their own benchmark. Thus, WEERG never sleeps.

What about 3D printing?

When the company started in 2016, “volume production” was still not so ready for the 3D printing industry. WEERG did not believe in 3D printing mass production alone at that time for generating enough profit, thus they started with CNC machines mainly.

3D Printing volume production at WEERG started with the investment in a fleet of HP Jet Fusion 5210. They saw potential, a good cost/product quality, and they considered HP as an honest partner. Adding 3D printing allowed them to offer PA11, PA12, PP, and even PA12 + GlassBeads for their customers’ applications. An average of 24 to 25,000 pieces a day are being printed on these printers.

Having CNC, 5-axis continuous milling machines, and Jet Fusion 3D Printers that work 24/7 allows them to offer 3 choices of aluminum, 3 types of steel, and polymers like nylons. The business grew fast and with more than half of the sales turnover coming from overseas.

Why go for a high-performance FFF 3D printer?

Demand kept on growing and more and more requests came from industrial companies asking for polymer parts. Polymers parts that have different properties like:

Flame retardancy
High chemical resistance
High-temperature resistance
High stiffness at high temperature
High electrical insulation
Hydrolysis resistance
Etc.

Fabio Trotti, 3D R&D Manager explained, “our clients are really curious about high-performance materials and about how they can use them in their company. The innovation of AM is stimulating Product Designers that work with us to develop in a new way driving innovation forward.”

Though WEERG already had some resign printers to tackle medical and model-making business, completing their portfolio with high-temperature 3D printers capable to print polymers like PEEK, PEEK-CF, PEEK-GF, etc. became a need.

After a thorough search, several benchmarks, and contacts made with local and international printer manufacturers, the supplier choice was INTAMSYS.

“We were looking for printers that can print high-performance materials and which could run 24/7 on our production floor. We look meticulously for suppliers that can help us deliver functional industrial parts to our clients.”, said Matteo, WEERG’s founder, and CEO.

INTAMSYS offered one single solution that got it all:

a robust printer with a nice esthetic finish with a heated chamber, dual heated nozzles, and heated filament chamber.
a free and user-friendly software with incorporated printing settings (Click and Print experience) on a wide range of materials (from PA12-CF to PEEK),
a reliable support and what we like most at WEERG, honesty and a true partnership

Discover WEERG’s journey with INTAMSYS’ printers

PEEK part – Prototype gear for testing and validation – Quick turnarounds are key in the prototyping phase to allow for easy iteration before finalizing the geometry.

PEEK annealed part – Carter/sump for a small high-performance engine – Lighter than its metal machined counterpart, can fulfill its duties thanks to the high mechanical and thermal properties of PEEK.

PA12-CF part – GoPro helmet mounting bracket. Very light weight, rigid and high performance to reduce fatigue and unnecessary weight on the rider.

“The INTAMSYS FUNMAT PRO 410 has been a performant and reliable tool since day one. It allows us to process high-performance polymers that enable our customers to innovate with them in highly loaded, thermally challenging, and metal replacement applications. It gives us the confidence that is needed to print 24/7 unattended with long print jobs of 100+ hours. It redefines what can be achieved with FDM technology”, stated Fabio.

The story has just begun!

WEERG S.r.l
Via Campocroce, 14
30037 Scorzè (VE) Italy
info@weerg.com

Website: https://www.weerg.com/en/global/home
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weerg.it
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weerg/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Weerg9

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4D Concepts, 3D printing service company, expands its portfolio to better answer high-performance prototype demands

INTAMSYS — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:58:11 +0000

4D Concepts GmbH is now a more than 25 years-old well-established 3D printing service company located on the outskirt of Frankfurt in Gross-Gerau, Germany. To pally the demand for high-performance prototypes made from modern high-performance thermoplastics, they added the INTAMSYS FUNMAT PRO 610HT to their portfolio.

4D Concepts’ focus is on prototyping and model construction services in the 4^th Dimension-Time. They combine 3D printing with conventional component processing methods. In this way, they can quickly realize the customer’s ideas and manufacture prototypes, models, or exhibits in all sizes. Even small series production is not a problem.

3D printing is an important part of their service offering. They also own and have expertise in many technologies like ColorJet Printing (CJP), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Stereolithography (SLA), PolyJet Printing, MultiJet Printing (MJP), Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), and Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF).

And since 1998, they are also an official reseller of 3D Systems printers which they also use for themselves.

“We accompany our customers in a professional manner throughout the entire project - from planning and design to the prototype or the production of a complete series. Combining our 3D printing processes with conventional component processing, post-processing and surface refinement of the prototypes, small series or even a trade fair exhibit is our daily business. Since the company was founded in 1995, our experienced team in Gross-Gerau has made a name for itself well beyond the borders of the Rhine-Main area. We are one of the leading service providers for everything to do with 3D printing and have more than satisfied customers from a wide variety of industries - from the automotive and consumer goods industries to mechanical engineering and companies from the medical technology sector”

Alex Di Maglie, Managing Director, said

4D Concepts Customer's Experience

With growing demand from aerospace, automotive, food, and medical sectors, and despite the wide variety of 3D printing technologies they owned already, they were missing a printer capable to print super polymers like PEEK, PEKK, PPSU, PPS, or ULTEM. 4D Concepts wanted to expand its offering and materials portfolio to product developers and designers.

They had a look on the market at printers capable to print high-performance polymers (FFF) technologies. They first turned to the most known names, but they couldn’t find exactly what they were looking for.

They were looking for a large build volume (to be able to print all sizes from small to big parts), an open material system (capable to go beyond for the customer’s application and leaving room to experiment and do filament research), and the right price/value.

They went for INTAMSYS and received their FUNMAT PRO 610HT in June 2021. Since the purchase of the printer, they have printed many prototypes, some end-use parts, and from time to time jigs/fixtures and tooling parts.

As the printer has a high chamber temperature (up to 300°C), it also means that all temperatures in between are covered too. 4D Concepts has printed out parts of many plastic types; from PLA, ABS, PC, to PAEK, PEEK, PEI 9085/1010.

4D Concepts – prototype of a temperature-resistant pulley made of glass-fiber reinforced PEEK (PEEK-GF).

Tom Neumann, Application Engineer at 4D Concepts for FFF Technology, shared, “The most important features are to me the automatic reloading system in the filament chambers (when the spool is empty it goes automatically to the next chamber), the high-performance dual nozzles (500°C) and that the printer is an Open System. It allows us to choose the right material for our customers’ applications.”

The application of high-end filaments made of high-performance plastics such as ULTEM is not new to the field of 3D Printing. However, it requires both, a wide range of skills (materials and production) and the appropriate machinery.

Thanks to its large-format 3D printer from INTAMSYS, 4D Concepts can now process a wide range of high-end plastics with excellent thermal and mechanical properties for prototyping. Parts are out of ULTEM9085.

4D Concepts GmbH

Frankfurter Strasse 74

64521 Gross-Gerau

Telefon +49 6152 92310

E-Mail mail@4dconcepts.de

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How INTAMSYS used 3D printing to launch its FUNMAT PRO 610HT

INTAMSYS — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:23:30 +0000

Since its launch again in 2019, INTAMSYS’ flagship FUNMAT PRO 610HT 3D printer has confirmed itself to be an industrial powerhouse. Sporting a large-format construct quantity measuring 610 x 508 x 508mm, the high-performance FFF system is the agency’s most feature-packed but. It presents a twin extrusion setup with nozzle temperatures of as much as 500°C, in addition to an enclosed construct chamber able to sustaining 300°C.

The FUNMAT PRO 610HT 3D printer. Photograph by INTAMSYS.

Constructed particularly for large-scale end-use practical elements, the machine is designed to course of the highest-performance engineering polymers in the marketplace, together with PEEK, ULTEM(PEI), and PPSU. The producer has now shared particulars of the FUNMAT PRO 610HT’s genesis story, and the way 3D printing within the growth course of paved the best way for shorter lead instances, decrease prices, and a profitable launch.

Everyone knows how complex it is to transform an idea into reality. At INTAMSYS, we go through the same obstacles as everybody else, therefore, we discover a way to overcome them. We develop, research and produce 3D printing equipment quicker than our rivals.

Founder of INTAMSYS

Fifteen 3D printed internal components

Tight temperature control capabilities were always a key requirement with the FUNMAT PRO 610HT, as is the case with all of INTAMSYS’ high-temperature systems. But building a machine with a 300°C build chamber is a tricky endeavor, as the internal components of the system need to be tested at equally high temperatures.

Thanks to the company’s existing portfolio of industrial 3D printers, the team was able to prototype many of these internal components in-house using engineering filaments. This eliminated the need to resort to metal prototypes, saving on costs. According to INTAMSYS, if they had outsourced functional prototyping to a third-party metal manufacturer, they would’ve only been able to test up to three prototypes per component. By keeping operations in-house, some of their parts were tested in over a dozen different iterations with minor design changes between them.

With such streamlined lead times, this also led to 3D printed end-use parts. Some of the system’s internal components were 3D printed on-demand and fed into the production cycle on a rolling basis, greatly reducing INTAMSYS’ reliance on external suppliers. Today, there are a total of 15 different 3D printed production parts installed in every FUNMAT PRO 610HT unit.

Watch the full tutor video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWzkgi2r3pE

Read the full article here: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/review-intamsys-funmat-pro-410-industrial-grade-dual-extrusion-3d-printer-202784/

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INTAMSYS’ FUNMAT PRO 410 has been reviewed by 3D Printing Industry

INTAMSYS — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:22:55 +0000

3D Printing Industry (3DPI) is well-versed in the 3D printing and 3D scanning worlds. Their team of specialists aims to provide reporting and create original content around the latest developments in the 3D printing industry.

They have just reviewed the FUNMAT PRO 410. Here are some key elements about the printer.

The FUNMAT PRO 410 is a 3D printer with advanced thermal design and with an industrial-grade configuration. This printer belongs to the middle-range of INTAMSYS High-Temp FFF portfolio with a built volume of 305x305x406mm (12x12x16in). Thanks to its up-to 90°C heated chamber, one can print out many materials from Engineering-grade (Nylon, PolyCarbonate, ABS, PLA, etc.) to High-Performance Materials (like PEEK or ULTEM (PEI)). From prototyping to functional/end-use parts, the dual-nozzles and the infinite choice of filaments give engineers more freedom of design and execution. For an even more easy and high-quality print, INTAMSYS created its own filament brand (INTAM) that comes with ready-to-print settings as well.

When all is said and done, the INTAMSYS FUNMAT PRO 410 has proven itself to be an industrial-grade powerhouse. Combining a respectable build volume with excellent print quality, the system is a great choice for professional and industrial users looking to 3D print high-performance parts with engineering-grade materials.

3DPI

Read the full article here: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/review-intamsys-funmat-pro-410-industrial-grade-dual-extrusion-3d-printer-202784/

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