German railway firm Deutsche Bahn has licensed using Essentium’s Excessive Pace Extrusion (HSE) 3D printing platform and supplies for practice components and instruments.
The HSE platform, which is getting used at a facility in Neumünster, has been examined with Essentium’s flame retardant 9085 and HTN-CF25 thermoplastics to make sure it complies with the AM Customary ISO/ASTM 52920:2023 and ISO 52920.
Having handed these assessments, Deutsche Bahn believes the HSE platform will enable it to extend the provision of its fleet by changing components and instruments rapidly and effectively. It will assist the corporate overcome provide chain points and uncooked supplies shortages for out of date components.
Essentium’s HSE expertise will likely be utilized in tandem with a digital warehouse that boasts round 1,000 technical drawings of spare components. Utilizing HSE, Deutsche Bahn will be capable of create low-run components on-demand reasonably than mass manufacturing a bigger quantity for it to be saved in huge portions inside a bodily warehouse. This could enable the corporate to extend its supply pace, whereas lowering prices.
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Owed to their capability to face up to 180°C and meet business requirements for reliability, repeatability and efficiency, Essentium’s high-temperature thermoplastics must also imply Deutsche Bahn continues to satisfy the required requirements.
“Lots of people nonetheless marvel if additive prepared for prime time. Deutsche Bahn, which is 3D printing tens of hundreds of alternative components for its trains, proves it’s,” commented Essentium CEO Blake Teipel, Ph.D. “We stay up for advancing Deutsche Bahn’s AM capabilities to hurry repairs and preserve its belongings operational with minimal downtime. This partnership will pave the way in which for others within the rail and transport industries to comply with.”
Deutsche Bahn is among the many main industrial gamers utilising 3D printing for end-use and spare components. For the latter software group, the corporate has been a champion of additive manufacturing’s suitability for someday. Essentium has seen its expertise used for this sort of software earlier than, with the a hundred and first AFR Marine Air Nationwide Guard leveraging HSE for alternative components in December 2022.
