Aerospace and defence producer Ursa Main has acquired three AMCM M 450-4 FLX steel additive manufacturing methods.
Ursa Main is now operating a fleet of six EOS-powered steel 3D printers and is ready as much as scale its hypersonics manufacturing from its Youngstown, Ohio, facility.
The doubling of its steel additive manufacturing capability has been made in step with its dedication to fulfill rising nationwide safety and aerospace demand.
Ursa Main is claimed to have a powerful relationship with EOS, citing the corporate’s ‘confirmed powder mattress fusion industrial 3D printing expertise and collaborative strategy.’ Along with operating EOS gear, Ursa Main is leveraging the corporate’s laser toolpath API ‘with full EOS engineering help’ to unlock ‘software-driven customisation and printing freedom.’
“EOS and AMCM have been unbelievable to work with – confirmed reliability, a responsive US service group, and the biggest deployed fleet of steel AM methods within the nation,” stated Nick Doucette, VP of Operations at Ursa Main. “Past that, they create an openness and engineering partnership. Collectively, we’re difficult legacy approaches to half qualification and course of qualification, pushing all the additive trade ahead.”
The AMCM M 450-FLX methods have been chosen by Ursa Main for his or her pace and energy, with Ursa Main additionally eager to deploy the machine’s beam shaping expertise. They may complement the AMCM M 290-1 FLX and two EOS M 400 methods that Ursa Main already operates.
“Ursa Main’s work with EOS demonstrates the following period of additive manufacturing – the place superior customers are empowered to innovate on their very own groups,” added Greg Hayes, International SVP of Additive Minds, EOS. “With EOS expertise and the help of our Additive Minds group, this collaboration reveals how OEM and consumer collectively can unlock progress at a tempo by no means seen earlier than.”
“Ursa Main exemplifies what’s doable when a forward-thinking firm leverages EOS expertise to its fullest potential,” provided Glynn Fletcher, President of EOS North America. “Their group’s deep technical fluency and daring imaginative and prescient encourage us. We’re proud to help them as they form the following decade of superior manufacturing to the defence trade.”