{"id":10408,"date":"2018-11-27T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2018-11-27T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:32:18","slug":"mitsubishi-electric-develops-metal-additive-manufacturing-process-271120184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/mitsubishi-electric-develops-metal-additive-manufacturing-process-271120184\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi Electric develops a metal additive manufacturing process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is a Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer and one of the world’s largest producers of photovoltaic panels.\u00a0It is also a player in the additive manufacturing market that has already developed a hybrid machine combining metal sintering and milling.\u00a0The company announces this time a new\u00a03D metal printing technology<\/a>\u00a0that it calls ”\u00a0Dot Forming<\/em>\u00a0” that is to say a method that would form points, inspired by the technology of metal deposition under concentrated energy ( DED in English).\u00a0The machine developed would combine both laser, CNC and CAM to produce quality parts.<\/p>\n

This initiative qualifies Japanese Mitsubishi to our list of\u00a0metal 3D printer manufacturers,<\/a>\u00a0which keeps growing, and for good reason. According to the\u00a0Wohlers Report 2018\u00a0, the 3D metal printing sector has increased by 21% last year and this trend seems to be continuing.\u00a0Manufacturers benefit from this growth;\u00a0for this we can look to HP’s recent announcement at IMTS in Chicago, which chose\u00a0the MIM-inspired powder binding technique for its new\u00a0HP Metal Jet<\/a>.\u00a0The Japanese manufacturer has turned to a method that uses DED technology. Whereby a source of energy is used to melt and fuse materials at the time of deposit.<\/p>\n

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The operation of the Mitsubishi process and printing samples<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mitsubishi Electric’s Dot Forming Technology<\/h3>\n

The DED process is commonly used to repair and maintain structural parts, but also to create hollow or overhanging shapes.\u00a0Mitsubishi Electric explains that unlike the DED, its unique technology uses a laser-welding wire. This wire is quit a lot cheaper than when using the conventional powder method.\u00a0The technology repeats the formation of points by synchronously controlling the pulsed laser irradiation, the wire feed and the shielding gas, as well as the shaping position.\u00a0With this repetition effect, Mitsubishi Electric claims that the shape accuracy is 60% higher than other metal additive manufacturing processes.\u00a0As for the oxidation, it’ll be reduced by 20%. Do to the high temperatures are concentrated on a small number of points.<\/p>

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Mitsubishi Electric hopes that its new technology will increase productivity for a wide range of applications. This includes areas such as repairing aircraft and automotive parts, as well as producing near-finished parts.\u00a0The company presented its machine at the International Machine Tool Exhibition in Tokyo at the beginning of November.\u00a0The first deliveries will not be made until 2021. In the meantime, find more information in the official press release\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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Parts created by Mitsubishi technology<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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