SLM Solutions Outfitting Morf3D’s Headquarters
Morf3D’s new Applied Digital Manufacturing Center is designed to help streamline and accelerate serial additive manufacturing production lines across the globe.
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(Left to Right) Charlie Grace, SLM Solutions chief sales officer; Ivan Madera, Morf3D CEO; and Sam O’Leary, SLM Solutions CEO
SLM Solutions is equipping Morf3D’s new headquarters with two SLM 500s and the NXG XII 600 to facilitate the company’s AM serial production in the aerospace industry. The machines will be delivered to Morf3D’s new state-of-the-art Applied Digital Manufacturing Center (ADMC) in Long Beach, California, in 2022. This partnership is designed to strengthen the international impact of Additive Manufacturing (AM) solutions.
The mission of Morf3D’s 90,000-square-foot ADMC facility is to leverage partner networks to transform supply chain norms and develop the industry’s first certified production system to accelerate the industrialization of digital manufacturing. The addition of the two SLM 500s and the NXG XII 600 will support Morf3D’s goal of ramping up a global production setup while improving production lead time, order flexibility, cost efficiency and quality. This joining of forces will enable quality and repeatability while paving the way to serial production, the company says.
“Our partnership with SLM Solutions dramatically shifts the landscape of serial production, enabling our customers to achieve unmatched levels of quality and performance,” says Ivan Madera, Morf3D CEO. “The NXG XII 600 platform is an engineering marvel that addresses many aspects of a production-ready system, and the ADMC will enable new industry partnerships, significantly scaling AM to new heights. Our goal is to accelerate the qualification process by collaborating on new application development and part certification within the aerospace, space and defense market.”
Next to the supply of machines, SLM Solutions will also offer on-site support in the form of education, training and consulting. All of ADMC’s research and development partners will work together to drive new innovations and deploy novel methods of aerospace engineering in order to increase productivity and automation. All partners will also have access to collective training, meeting and gathering spaces for customer events and business development efforts.
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