Sauber Motorsport is increasing its additive manufacturing capability with an order of 10 3D printers from 3D Methods.
The polymer methods, together with eight SLA 750 Duals and two PSLA 270s, are set broaden the Swiss motorsport engineering firm’s fast manufacturing capability for wind tunnel components made with 3D Methods’ Accura Composite PIV, Accura Xtreme, and Determine 4 ceramic-filled supplies.
Marco Gehrig, head of mechanical & AM manufacturing, Sauber Group mentioned, “The benchmarks performed on the SLA 750 yielded components with higher floor high quality and required much less post-processing than the present machines in use. Our workforce is wanting ahead to utilizing the business’s most superior SLA know-how obtainable to extend our manufacturing velocity, high quality and suppleness for wind tunnel components, and accelerating our velocity to trace.”
The SLA 750 Twin two-laser system has been chosen for its print dimension, velocity, accuracy, and determination for closing components with excessive end and mechanical efficiency. The just lately launched PSLA 270, described in a latest problem of TCT because the ‘better of each worlds’ because of a mix of the velocity and supplies flexibility of 3D Methods Determine 4 know-how with the standard of SLA, is a excessive velocity, projector-based mid-sized SLA system. Sauber is the primary Method 1 workforce to include the know-how.
Talking about 3D Methods partnership with Sauber, Elvis Perez, SVP, international ISG gross sales, 3D Methods mentioned, “3D Methods has a long-standing partnership with Sauber spanning practically twenty years, and our relationship in addition to our know-how portfolio have developed over this time. I’m wanting ahead to persevering with our journey with the Sauber workforce to push the boundaries of what’s doable in motorsports by way of the facility of additive manufacturing.”
Sauber is already an avid person of 3D printing, together with polymer and metallic methods from 3D Methods, EOS and Additive Industries, and auxiliary methods from Rosler’s AM Options. 3D Methods’ applied sciences are additionally getting used extensively within the motorsport and automotive sectors with groups like BWT Alpine F1 Crew and Stewart Haas Racing utilizing it to construct parts for wind tunnel testing and end-use components.