BeAM Magic 2.0
BeAM has announced its Magic 2.0 machine has arrived at the company’s recently-opened US facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.
French industrial 3D printer manufacturer, BeAM has announced its Magic 2.0 machine has arrived at the company’s recently-opened US facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The 20,000-square foot facility was opened in February and has since functioned as BeAM’s North American solutions centre.
Now equipped with a Magic 2.0, the facility will offer greater capabilities to its nearby customers. This machine is a large scale 5-axis technology designed for serial production or repair of high value components. The standard machine specifications include an X, Y, Z build volume of 1200 x 800 x 800, Siemens 840D Control, IPG 2KW Fiber Laser, MacroCLAD 10Vx Deposition Head, along with many other industry leading features.
“Located in Cincinatti, Ohio, the BeAM Machines North America Solutions Center is about 30 minutes north of the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport, an optimal location to serve the many leading edge companies who will utilise our DED technology and solutions,” said Tim Bell, General Manager of BeAM Machines. “Our Solutions Center will provide customers across multiple industries, including the aeronautic, aerospace, defence, nuclear and oil and gas industries with world class machine sales, service support, and training, as well as complete process development including applications engineering and material development.”
The Magic 2.0 is often used by Aerospace MRO sites to repair gas turbine engine shaft seals, stator vanes, LPT Blades, and other high value components. Additional applications for the Magic 2.0 include creating near net shapes versus machining from large expensive forgings, reducing the amount of wasted material, as well as the environmental impact by using less energy to manufacture the components.
“Some of the more unique applications include combining multiple advanced technologies such as Powder Bed Fusion and Directed Energy Deposition, leveraging the abilities of both of these additive manufacturing technologies at the component design level, allowing some of the world’s most advanced manufacturing facilities to push the envelope on what is possible,” added Bell. “The freedom of design that additive manufacturing gives allows our customers to achieve component performance and life cycle levels that historically were only ‘pipe dreams’.”
