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Fabio Gualdo
1 October 2018
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Do you work in the automotive, oil and gas, aeronautic  or  aerospace sector? Are you and your team up to date on the most excellent thermoplastic of FDM technology (Fused Deposition Modeling) that you can use to improve your performances and your  business?

If not, you are about to know the new fundamental material to work with. We are talking about Pekk (Antero 800NA), an extraordinary thermoplastic available  from july 2018.

How could you reduce weight, save fuel and cut costs at the same time?

In the recent past, aluminum and steel had great mechanical properties but now in a more competitive present and future you need a new generation of lighter, less expensive, materials: thermoplastics.

Not all thermoplastics are fit for your components, exposed to jet fuel, oil, hydraulic  fluid and for spacecraft parts. What you need is a material resistant to hydrocarbons, chemical agents, high temperatures, with mechanical features such as  strength, toughness and wear-resistance. All these extraordinary properties are included in Pekk (Antero 800NA).

Click here to download the technical data sheet

Which is the best company specialized in FDM  technology that can help you to reach new levels of performance?

Spring srl can guarantee you an extraordinary service of 3D printing and thanks to a great team of engineers  and technicians specialized in FDM, Spring srl can optimize your projects on several fronts.

The company owns 14 systems of professional 3D printings that allow the realization of components in Pekk up to 400X350X400mm.

Spring srl invests a large amount of the budget in R&D to offer you competitive and innovative solutions.

Click here to have a quote.

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23 July 2018
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There is something new in the air at Spring which has added the new AICS (Aircraft Interiors Certification Solution) certified Stratasys F900 printer to its fleet of machines. “Additive technology is evolving quickly, bringing in new professional systems is the best way of ensuring we satisfy demanding customer requirements.” – explains Roberto Toniello, co-owner of Spring Srl – “The AICS certification provides the traceability required for producing parts suitable for aircraft, enabling us to produce high performance components for the aviation and aerospace industries.”

The company currently possesses 5 Stratasys F900 systems, 2 of which are AICS certified, bringing the total number of professional 3D printers installed at its headquarters in Vicenza to 14.

“The quality of our systems and production processes enable us to take on and successfully meet the challenges set by the most crucial sectors” – adds Roberto Toniello – “We have combined experience with innovation to deliver an increasingly fast and professional service to our clients.”

The Stratasys F900 professional printer is the largest in the Fortus range. With a build envelope of 900 x 600 x 900 mm, it enables us to produce large monolithic parts or groups of parts taking advantage of the greater available space and therefore reducing production times.

The system, which produces parts using the FDM (Fused Deposition Modelling) technology, uses a thermoplastic filament which is deposited, layer after layer, onto the build platform until the part is completed. This technology uses both standard thermoplastics (ASA, ABS, NYLON) to produce maquettes and visual details as well as high performance technical materials (ULTEM, CARBON FIBRE-FILLED NYLON, PEKK) for functional and direct use parts.

Grand dimensions for grand results with carbon fibre-filled nylon

Yet another great piece of news from Spring Srl: it’s using carbon fibre-filled nylon, with its excellent stiffness and lightness, with the Stratasys F900 systems. The significance of this is that it enables the company to produce large, extremely resistant and high performance monolithic parts for a variety of sectors such as aerospace, motorsport and automotive.

The combination of a high performance material such as carbon fibre-filled nylon containing 35% carbon fibre, the F900’s generous dimensions and the technological approach of Spring Srl, enables the company to meet requirements for producing functional parts within reduced production timescales and costs.

Benefits all the way with Spring Srl

It is a pioneer in the world of additive manufacturing, but the company doesn’t just print 3D components, it also works with its customers to re-engineer parts in order to guarantee maximum performance at the lowest possible cost.

Spring Srl has twenty years of experience in the Additive Manufacturing sector and continues to lead the European market in the production of high-end specialist components. Thanks to its quick turnaround times and quality of service, the company works with Italian and international clients in a variety of sectors to offer increasingly more innovative and high performance solutions.

Please send us your project to contatti@springitalia.com. It will be our prerogative to evaluate the technical feasibility and offer you the best possible solution!

 

 


Fabio Gualdo
15 June 2018
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3D printing technology is increasingly approaching the industrial automation field .This Case Study explain how the automation-equipment realization process has been developed in order to significantly reduce costs and time of production.

TARGETS
  • Realize equipment for the line processing and handling of the product
  • Respect strict lead time
  • Reduce costs
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
STEP 1: Reverse Engineering

LThe activity starts with the acquisition of the product’s digital jig. The mathematic model of the element (customer’s product) is acquired through 3D Scanner, both the upper part, necessary to the realization of the collecting devices, and lower part necessary for the placements realization.
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Scanner laser necessary for Reverse Engineering activity

STEP 2:Design

The technical department, thanks to the 3D measurements obtained through 3D Scanner, designed the collecting devices and the placements. The components development was realized with Cad 3D Systems installed in the company and thereafter optimized for Additive Manufacturing.
In this phase precise customer’s specifications were followed, such as details placement and extreme envelope of the placement with respective balance and fixing.
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Collecting devices design (left and right)

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Placement design

STEP 3:Production

After a technical analysis of the customer’s requirements we suggested the usage of two different materials:

• FDM technology (Fused Deposition Modeling) with Nylon 12 for the realization of the collecting devices

•FDM technology (Fused Deposition Modeling) with ASA for the realization of the placements

Spring has 10 FDM production system machines of the brand Stratasys that allow to realize monolithic parts of big dimensions or, like in this case, group parts and small pre-series.
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Collecting devices and placements realized with Additive Manufacturing

STEP 4:Quality control

Every realized part was tested with rigid quality controls in order to guarantee to the customer a complete service and a result that meets the initial urgent requests.

Collecting devices and placements quality control

In the following video you can see collecting devices and placements realized in Additive Manufacturing inserted in a working production line.

GAINED RESULTS
 Preavious solution Spring Solution

Difference

Lead time15 working days4 working days-74%
Costs-37%

 

Please send us your project to contatti@springitalia.com. It will be our prerogative to evaluate the technical feasibility and offer you the best possible solution!

 

 

 

 


Fabio Gualdo
15 June 2018
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Spring Srl designed and realized the inlet pipe of a Moto3 motorbike with Additive Manufacturing. The company set several targets to achieve the result:

TARGETS
  • Reduce the costs of the detail
  • Respect restricted delivery time
  • Realize a detail with high technical characteristics
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
STEP 1: Design

Once figured out the client’s requirement, the first activity was the inlet pipe design. The 3D model was developed with a CAD system installed in the company and successively optimized for Additive Manufacturing. During the design stage fixing points and casing for the temperature sensor were realized.

Cad design of the inlet pipe

STEP 2: Production

The applications in the Racing field require materials with high technical characteristics. The realized details needs to be resistant to extreme conditions as high temperature, chemical agents and significant mechanical stress. That’s why for the inlet pipe realization we chose Carbon Charged Nylon.
The material is composed by a mix of Nylon 15 with a 35% of carbon fiber. This combination makes it one of the hardest and with the highest resistance/weight ratio material available in the field of Additive Manufacturing.

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Detail realized with additive manufacturing

STEP 3:Finishing

The detail has undergone an impregnation treatment to reduce roughness and improve performances. Afterwards, as customer’s request, inserts have been placed.

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Post-finishing detail

STEP 4: Quality control

In the final phase the detail was tested with a quality control with a laser scanner. Spring Srl was able to guarantee the strict allowances requested.

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Quality control detail

ACHIEVED RESULTS
 
Preavious solution
Spring solution

Difference

Weight-43%
Lead time2 working days1 working day-50%
Costs-31%

 

Please send us your project to contatti@springitalia.com. It will be our prerogative to evaluate the technical feasibility and offer you the best possible solution!

 

 


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