Desktop Metal, Burlington, Mass., announces that its 3D printing system known as Production System builds complex metal parts up to 100 times faster than laser systems. The development has won the “2017 Best of What’s New” award in the Engineering category, from Popular Science magazine.
Said to be the first metal 3D printing system for mass production of complex metal parts, it was created by the inventors of ground-breaking technologies in both 3D and 2D printing – binder jetting by Ely Sachs, and single pass inkjet by Paul Hoisington. Production System builds metal parts in a matter of minutes instead of hours. Leveraging low-cost metal injection molding (MIM) powder, it is designed to deliver high throughput and per-part costs that are competitive with traditional manufacturing processes—up to 20 times lower than today’s laser-based additive manufacturing systems.
Available in 2018, Production System reportedly delivers the speed, quality, and cost-per-part needed to compete with traditional manufacturing processes.
