XJet SMART part washer
XJet has today launched a new piece of post-processing equipment, which the additive manufacturing (AM) company believes “delivers the final missing link in AM.”
The SMART station, which, in one of the AM industry’s better acronyms, stands for ‘Support Material Automatic Removal Technology’, has been developed to automate the removal of support material from ceramic and metal parts printed on its Carmel AM systems.
The water-based machine is said to use intelligent algorithms to suggest the appropriate wash cycle for any given tray of parts, featuring “virtually any geometry”, and make’s XJet’s soluble support material, first introduced back in 2019, even easier to remove.
Dror Danai, XJet CBO commented: “This is all part of XJet’s drive to support manufacturers in a true production environment. XJet technology is designed for manufacturers who want to build better parts for real-world applications. We examine the whole workflow to see what can be done to reduce production time, minimise operational costs, and ensure the premium quality of parts is repeatable.”
The company reports that one of its beta customers has achieved a 90% reduction in cleaning time using the new SMART station.
Danai added: “Additive manufacturing is supposed to offer true design freedom and complex geometries with zero additional cost. Our soluble support material delivers those capabilities – even for tiny cavities. Now with the SMART station our customers can benefit from simple, predictable, low-cost operation.”
Visitors to RAPID + TCT later this month will be able to see the SMART station and sample parts on the XJet booth (E7401) alongside parts printed in its recently launched alumina ceramic material.
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