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3D Metal Printing Systems:  Fastest Path To MRL10
BTS Applications for 3D Laser Metal Printing Technology:

• Fabrication of metal molds with sophisticated internal structures
• Fast-track prototype functional testing and market demonstration
• Manufacturing of highly complex geometries
• Manufacturing of customized or individually fitted parts
• Reduce weight applications
• Tooling repair, spare parts, and parts reconditioning

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Aerospace and Industrial applications

Tooling inserts featuring conformal cooling channels to lightweight structures for aerospace, applications include turbine blades, aircraft frames & structures, jet engines, fuel systems, guide vanes & other reduce weight components contributing to lighter aircrafts reducing fuel consumption. Fonon’s BTS large build-plate technology expands applications to include turbine rings with diameters out to 1.5 meters and long structures & frames out to 3 meters.

Automotive

Highly complex parts previously unrealizable through traditional means now allow automotive designers to improve automotive efficiencies and reduce part counts while eliminating tooling cost leading to more fuel efficient vehicles.  With Fonon’s highly-automated based direct drive motion system technology, automotive engine blocks are now possible to metal print.

Military & Defense

From maintenance centers, naval ships, to military outposts, 3D metal printing systems are changing the entire fleet management workflow from maintaining huge inventories to quick printing replacement parts on demand.  Metal printing is having a profound affect on next-generation capabilities of our soldiers including battlefield armor, special purpose ballistic munitions, and weapons. BTS technology allows replacing 100’s of warhead components to only a few achieving intricate designs to control explosion pattern, blast direction, and other special purpose components for mission specific applications.

Space

Private companies, NASA and other groups are developing new concepts to launch 3D printing into the final frontier.  Long-term missions benefit greatly from having onboard manufacturing capabilities reducing the need to maintain costly inventory on the International Space Station and future spacecrafts..  Space colonies would be self-sufficient with the capabilities to manufacture spare parts/tools. BTS technology opens the door to metal printing larger rocket, missile, and propulsion based components and subassemblies.

Medical applications

Patient specific implants featuring hybrid structures and textures unlock manufacturing capabilities that combine free-form shapes and intricate lattice structures improving Osseo integration leading to much improved patient outcomes. BTS technology optimized for biocompatible metal powders like titanium target specific surface properties that generate expected responses from neighboring cells and tissue of orthopedic implants, such as hip, knee and spinal devices.

3D Metal Printing System | Equipment software | Metal Printing Applications

Model 3DF150 – (3D Fusion™ 150)

Fonon Additive Manufacturing Technologies encompass 3D FUSION TECHNOLOGY or 3D Laser Metal Sintering (Commonly known as 3d Metal Printing) Technologies. Fonon’s 3D FUSION™ or 3D Laser Metal Sintering (Printing) process is an emerging additive NANO Powder Manufacturing Technology with a presence in the medical industry as well as Manufacturing (Mold fabrication and Repair), Defense, aerospace and high technology engineering and electronics sectors. 3D Laser Metal Printing is a layered, digitally driven additive manufacturing process that uses high quality focused laser energy to fuse metal NANO powders into 3D objects.

PERFORMANCE

• For the best performance Fonon’s systems are optimized for nano powder with a certain specifications.
• To ensure consistency Fonon sells a range of nano powders to ensure the best performance of our precision 3D laser sintering process.

EQUIPMENT OPTIONS

Laser Photonics exclusively uses only state of the art techniques, components, and technologies to build its highly reliable and effective laser systems. All parts and components are manufactured in the United States representing the highest in reliability and quality.

EQUIPMENT DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

We solely develop all 3D Direct Metal printing systems for specific customer requirements, targeting maximum performance for 3D metal printing of specialized designs, parts and applications. Our designs allow customers to optimize expensive nano powder consumption, reduce inert gas flow rate, optimize throughput verses surface roughness, minimize powder fill up volume in the process chamber, define optimal laser power requirements, optimize system costs in relation to application (design for the warhead 3D metal sintering system is different from the design of medical contact pads mold forms prototyping, even if they have the similar horizontal cut dimensions).

We bring forth over 100 years of laser equipment design experience into the world of 3D Metal Fusion Technology and Equipment Combined with our extensive experience of integrating Vision systems into laser equipment, and our 3D engraving capabilities experience with submicron accuracies of non-dimensional Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology™ equipment together with real size shipbuilding laser cutting machines, positions us as one of the preferred premium suppliers of the revolutionary 3D Metal Fusion Equipment utilizing the Direct Metal Sintering process in “high volume additive manufacturing” or prototyping of the most challenging and sophisticated parts and components in the Industry

Applications

From tooling inserts featuring conformal cooling channels, through to lightweight structures for aerospace and high technology applications, 3D Laser Metal Printing significantly reduces the constraints on designers. This design freedom results in optimized structures and shapes that would otherwise be constrained by conventional processes or the tooling requirements of large volume production. 3D Metal Printing helps to reduce lead times, reduce tooling costs and permits the creation of designs not previously available.