Desktop Metal Expands Metal Binder Jet Lineup With Shop System+, Shop System Pro

Desktop Metal has added two upgraded packages to its Shop System, offering users new flexibility, functionality and value for its metal binder jet system. First unveiled in November 2019, the Shop System was designed to bring metal additive manufacturing (AM) to machine and job shops with an affordable, turnkey solution that achieves exceptional surface finish parts with rich feature detail at speeds up to 10 times those of legacy powder bed fusion AM technologies.

Desktop Metal is expanding the Shop System lineup with the addition of Shop System+ and the Shop System Pro, giving power users more flexibility and control over operating costs and machine parameters.

The Shop System+ package enables high-production users to access Desktop Metal-engineered powders and binders at a discount to MSRP, reducing the running costs of their AM operations and improving their part costs to drive a faster return on investment.

The Shop System Pro package is well suited for high-production users with powder metallurgy expertise who seek not only to optimize their running costs but to also enable specific applications or cost structures by leveraging proprietary or third-party powders. The Shop System Pro package includes all the benefits of the Shop System+ package as well as additional process flexibility through new features, such as custom printing and spreading parameters and bidirectional printing for the Shop System Printer and custom sintering profiles for the Desktop Metal Furnace.

“Customers love the affordability, quality and reliability of the Shop System, and the Desktop Metal team is excited to expand on this successful platform,” says Ric Fulop, Desktop Metal founder and CEO. “The Shop System has become a global success, and we’ve really taken a sinter-based production process that used to require specialized knowledge and made it accessible on many levels. In addition to being affordable, our software and controlled powder and binder supply chain have made 3D printing metal parts easy and reliable.”

The company says the Shop System features the highest resolution and most advanced single-pass print engine in the binder jetting market, offering a complete end-to-end solution for producing complex, end-use metal parts. The system includes a binder jetting printer with 1,600 native dpi resolution and 5X nozzle redundancy; a drying oven for hardening green parts prior to depowdering; and a powder station for depowdering parts with built-in powder recycling. It also has a furnace designed for accessible, industrial-strength sintering; integrated powder handling accessories and workflow; and Desktop Metal-engineered binders and powders. Additionally, it has Desktop Metal software for build preparation and sintering simulation.

This turnkey solution, designed with the modern machine shop in mind, is said to seamlessly integrate with existing shop operations, making it easy for businesses to get up and running with binder jetting in days instead of weeks or months.

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