Learn how AddUp 3D printed a custom coolant nozzle.
About the presentation Fives Landis Corp. and AddUp, partnered to design and manufacture a 3D-printed coolant nozzle which was installed on a rebuilt Landis LT2 grinding machine to optimize its performance. The custom nozzle design allows the flow position and shape to precisely match the challenging wheel geometry with fewer components in the assembly. It also provides optimum flow to the metal cutting zone in the grinding machine, increasing the machine’s performance and optimizing the grind cycle. Using traditional production processes, fabricating this complex part is difficult and requires multiple pieces with ideal interior geometries. Metal additive manufacturing (AM) allows this nozzle component to be realized from digital design to the final metal part in only a few steps and in a matter of days, not weeks. The coolant nozzle was printed in stainless steel in only a few hours on the FormUp 350 PBF machine which achieves up to 0.1mm dimensional accuracy and 99.99% material density. This ensures accurate and repeatable part performance without failure. The final result is a one-piece optimized coolant nozzle accurately delivering coolant flow into precise locations, optimizing the performance of the machine.
Meet your presenter Nick Estock is a product manager with AddUp, a joint venture created by Michelin and Fives responsible for laser powder bed fusion (PBF) and direct energy deposition (DED) product lines for North America. In this role, Estock acts as the voice of the U.S. market while driving technical solutions to meet customer needs. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton and master’s degree in business administration from Pennsylvania State University. He has more than 15 years of experience in product development across multiple industries and additive technologies, including L-PBF, DED, Binder Jetting, and EBM.
About the company AddUp is a French Joint Venture created in 2015 by Michelin & Fives, two referent industrial companies. We design and sell metal AM machines using powder bed fusion (PBF) and directed energy deposition (DED) technologies. From the discovery step to the production series, we are ready to support you along your additive journey and share the benefit of our workshop experience. Our goal is to bring you a beneficial experience and become a trusted industrial partner, sharing our passion for innovation related to AM.
Branch locations are in Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Sterling Heights, Michigan; and Mississauga, Ontario.
KBC Tools & Machinery and its team members have been busy during the pandemic improving its warehouses, counting inventory, adding new items to its offerings, upgrading its websites, and envisioning and creating a new showroom concept in three of its branch locations. Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Sterling Heights, Michigan; and Mississauga, Ontario, are all now sporting the new fresh and unified look and concept where industrial chic meets manufacturing musts. The showrooms, a haven for machinists, tool & die makers, CNC operators, millwrights, and MRO professionals, are open to the public from Monday to Friday from 8a.m. to 5p.m. local time and feature a selection of customer top-rated items for all MRO applications with an emphasis on metal cutting from all 13 categories that KBC sells: cutting tools, indexable tooling, fluids, work holding, abrasives, measuring & inspection equipment, toolroom accessories, hand tools, shop supplies, power & air tools, machinery, inventory clearance sale, and the current sale flyer great deals.
Along with the ability for clients to shop the categories, see the selection of tools and accessories, compare products, and find items that will help with production, cost, safety, and efficiency, clients are able to shop www.kbctools.com on the showroom mobile devices to see the complete offering of more than 100,000 SKUs for metalworking and MRO. Having the top cutting tools in convenient large blue metal drawer cabinets in the showroom also allows for speed in picking orders for clients coming into the showroom who have not yet placed their orders as well as the ability for KBC team members to easily offer clients the choice between good, better, and best offerings from quality imports, Brand KBC, and world-class brands depending on the job at hand and inventory levels.
Being able to look at and touch the tools has been a game changer for many clients who know what they need when they see it, but sometimes don’t know what they’ve been looking for. The newly improved showrooms also highlight new product introductions often before they are on www.kbctools.com or in a sales flyer.
David Zagar, V.P. of KBC Tools & Machinery, who spearheaded and oversaw the transformation of the showrooms from concept to implementation, says, “We strategically placed our top-selling products in each of our 12 different product categories, giving a complete overview to even the most seasoned metal worker. We actively showcase relevant items and useful time-savers, regardless of the application. We like to call it the closest thing to an in-person catalogue, or website. We can’t put all 100,000 items in our showrooms; however, we selected the best-of in each category to represent some version of a product line. For the full offering our website is still the best “go-to” in terms of seeing our full offering – however if you are in need of a product, our showroom and warehouses alike are poised to get you going right now – when it counts.”
KBC is certified as a Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) company in Canada and a Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) company in the US.
KBC Tools & Machinery Elk Grove Village, Illinois (910 Busse Road); Sterling Heights, Michigan (6300 18 Mile Road); Mississauga, Ontario (6200 Kennedy Road).
Learn about the manufacturing platform and suite of technologies 3DEO has developed and integrated over the last five years.
About the presentation This talk will give the audience a sense the manufacturing platform and suite of technologies 3DEO has developed and integrated over the last five years to become one of the highest volume metal AM service providers in the world.
But 3DEO's Manufacturing Cloud is more than a metal 3D printing company – it’s a software-powered end-to-end manufacturing platform that enables companies to launch and scale better products, faster. The Manufacturing Cloud integrates patented technologies across the entire production system – 3D printing, robotics, materials, and a software OS that manages everything from part design to finished product. The world 3DEO is building will allow product innovators to launch new products at the speed of software – in months not years and for thousands of dollars, not millions.
Meet your presenter Matt Sand is the CEO and founder of 3DEO. He earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson with a focus in entrepreneurship. He co-authored a book, The Agile Startup, published by Wiley & Sons in 2013. Since receiving his MBA, Sand has played a variety of roles across the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He founded or co-founded several startup companies, invested in early-stage companies at two Southern California-based venture funds, and taught entrepreneurship courses at UCLA and LMU.
About the company As a leader in metal component manufacturing, 3DEO sells parts, not printers, without legacy manufacturing limitations such as tooling, high up-front cost, and long lead times. 3DEO specializes in serial production for medical devices, aerospace and defense, industrial manufacturing and more, giving customers the ability to launch physical products at the speed of digital.
3DEO patented a differentiated metal AM process that has allowed it to set new high-water marks in the industry. By many measures, our metal 3D printers achieve superior results – especially when it comes to surface finish, material properties, and dimensional accuracy. Last year, 3DEO announced shipping its millionth part, and nearly shipped one million parts in 2021 alone.
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Learn about automated optical measurements on stationary parts.
About the presentation Precision-machined parts in aviation, automotive, and manufacturing industries have tightly controlled tolerances for the dozens of small geometries spread throughout a single part. Commonly referred to as edge break, chamfers and rounded edges can have specifications on the order of a few thousandths of an inch called out on every edge transition on the part. The sheer number of measurements needed on each part paired with the high volume of parts demands the ability to take not only one measurement quickly but dozens in a rapid process. Quick, single-frame measurements of edge break geometries and defects can be done with polarized structured light (PSL). The vibration immunity provided by single-frame measurements allows for PSL instruments to be mounted on collaborative robots. Robotic automation of such a device yields accurate measurements at volume quickly. This presentation discusses gage studies and the increased speed of inspection with automated optical measurements on stationary parts, parts moving on a production line, and rotationally symmetric parts on a rotary stage. It also looks at ongoing projects aiming to automate the inspection process itself, enabling one operator to inspect entire parts in minutes rather than days.
Meet your presenter Dr. Erik Novak is Vice President and General Manager at 4D Technology, where he was worked since 2013. He’s been developing instrumentation for precision metrology for more than 24 years in applications such as semiconductor, optics, aerospace, automotive, photovoltaics, and medical devices. Erik has received seven international product awards, holds more than a dozen patents, and has more than 60 publications and book chapters related to surface measurement and industrial process control.
About the company For more than 20 years, 4D Technology created innovative metrology products for measuring surface quality and defects on precision surfaces, as well as the surface and wavefront quality of optics. 4D’s patented Dynamic Interferometry® technology enables measurements in environments where vibration, air turbulence, or rapid motion have traditionally prevented accurate measurement. We have distributors all over the world, and a customer support organization to ensure your investment operates at peak capability for a long time to come.