HP Printing Solutions for Accelerating Production Applications

HP has new solutions for additive manufacturing, including its new commercial Jet Fusion and Metal Jet 3D printing solutions. The Formnext 2022 show marks the first time HP has publicly exhibited its HP Jet Fusion 5420W Solution (including white applications) and the full modular HP Metal Jet S100 Solution, including a new John Deere production application.

“Additive manufacturing delivers on today’s most urgent market demands, including sustainable innovation, hyperpersonalization and business resiliency,” says Didier Deltort, president of Personalization & 3D Printing, HP Inc. “Together, with our global network of partners and customers, we are scaling additive manufacturing to meet these needs.”

The company says the HP Metal Jet S100 Solution is enabling industrial customers such as Domin Digital Motion, Lumenium and Schneider Electric to achieve better productivity, low part cost and outstanding quality. John Deere, the global manufacturing leader of agricultural and construction equipment, is using Metal Jet technology for the production of a valve in the tractor fuel system.

Together with GKN, John Deere is now manufacturing Metal Jet-printed valves in its agricultural machinery. In addition to significant productivity gains and environmental benefits, the high-quality part is functional in extreme weather conditions. John Deere is also leveraging HP’s Multi Jet Fusion technology to optimize its production process, using 3D printed prototypes to test and fine-tune components and parts such as windshield holders, reducing pre-assembly from 30 days to 10, delivery times by up to 10 weeks and overall production costs by between 20 to 25%.

“Our focus on innovation and sustainability is at the core of everything we do for our customers,” says Dr. Jochen Müller, manager Global Digital Engineering at John Deere. “We are proud to be among the first in the agricultural industry to leverage the benefits 3D printing for both prototyping and final parts production. Leveraging industrial 3D printing platforms for polymers and metals, we are discovering opportunities to deliver more efficient, reliable and sustainable equipment.”

To enable entirely new production applications, HP has added the HP Jet Fusion 5400 Series to its existing Jet Fusion portfolio, and unveiled the first product in the series, the HP Jet Fusion 5420W Solution. This solution enables consistent, high-quality production of white parts, and provides the benefits of HP’s robust, manufacturing-ready Multi Jet Fusion platform, including industrial-grade reliability, low cost-per-part and enhanced manufacturing predictability. Well suited for the automotive, consumer goods, health care and industrial markets, early customers using the new solution to produce innovative white applications include DI Labs, Prototal Industries, and Weerg. 

“HP continues to provide us with the advancements we need to push the boundaries of additive manufacturing and produce the final parts our customers need,” says Jan Löfving, CEO, Prototal Industries. “Beyond the industrial grade production HP delivers, we are seeing immediate interest in the new white applications made possible by the latest addition to HP’s Multi Jet Fusion family. As a proud Digital Manufacturing Partner in HP’s DMN, we are equipped to take on bold, innovative projects and help companies get the most value out of AM production.”

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• In this episode of the Cool Parts Show, two brothers utilized HP’s Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology to 3D print ski goggles.

• Check out this “AM 101” article detailing HP’s Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology for efficient production.

• Learn more about “Understanding HP's Metal Jet: Beyond Part Geometry, Now It's About Modularity, Automation and Scale”