Industrial 3D Printing Solutions for Drone & Robotics Components

voxeljet is a leading developer of advanced industrial 3D printing solutions and provider of on-demand polymer parts, as well as broad additive manufacturing solutions for sand and investment casting.

As a continued partner, UST is highlighting the company’s unique solutions via the voxeljet supplier profile. The company’s 3D production systems are ideal for both large components or large runs of smaller parts, and are capable of producing complex geometries and contact-free interlinked components with the finest details in a single production step.

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voxeljet’s cutting-edge additive manufacturing technologies provide a range of advantages for manufacturers of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and robotic vehicles.

Sustainability – by producing lightweight and optimized components for UAV airframes and engines, 3D printing enables lower fuel consumption and reduced CO2 emissions. voxeljet’s technologies also allow for monolithic component consolidation, enabling complex component groups to be simplified and production processes to be streamlined.
Cost-effectiveness – voxeljet’s 3D printing systems allow you to break through the economic limits imposed by cost-intensive changeover times. Additionally, it is often not economically feasible to manufacture parts with highly complex geometries and structures via conventional methods.
Certification – investment casting is a fully certified additive manufacturing process for the aerospace industry. In combination with 3D printing, it reduces the time-consuming and costly testing and certification of drone and unmanned systems components.

High-Speed Polymer Sintering

voxeljet’s High Speed Sintering (HSS) technology is revolutionizing polymer 3D printing, offering properties that are comparable to those of injection-molded parts and opening up new possibilities for prototyping, small batch production, and high-volume manufacturing.

The unique greyscale process enables a range of properties to be varied in all three dimensions across the printed component, including mechanical strength, elasticity, and material density. Parts can be printed without tools and support structures, and with virtually any geometry or complexity.

3D Printing Solutions

voxeljet’s state-of-the-art 3D printing technologies enable a wide range of innovative processes, shortening manufacturing times of components by up to 75% and enabling efficient creation of anything from one-of-a-kind prototypes up to full-scale production runs.

The company’s solutions also offer a complete digital data chain across all phases of the product life cycle. Component data can be seamlessly ported across the entire voxeljet 3D printer family.

Sand Casting – voxeljet 3D printers can be used to produce molds and cores for metal casting at any required complexity level, from single pieces to medium-sized runs, and components can be manufactured without tools using the Binder Jetting process. With certified sand binder combinations for almost all castable alloys, the printers provide optimum results even with extremely large components of up to 4000 x 2000 x 1000mm in size.

Investment Casting – in conjunction with the voxeljet PMMA Binder Jetting process, this can be used to manufacture plastic components rapidly and cost-effectively. The process uses acrylic glass with excellent burn-out properties, and complex geometries can be produced in small and medium-sized batches without the need for costly pattern production. It is ideal for component sizes of up to 1000 x 600 x 500mm.

To find out more about voxeljet’s 3D printing solutions for drone and robotics, visit the company’s profile page:
https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/company/voxeljet/