To help Mott Corporation increase its design and production capabilities for filtration and flow control components, global engineering technologies company Renishaw supplied the RenAM 500 Flex. This new metal additive manufacturing (AM) machine has enabled Mott Corporation to reduce machine turnaround and setup times, while improving the performance metrics of components.
Mott Corporation specializes in solving filtration and flow control engineering challenges in integrated components, point of use subassemblies, and integrated subsystems. It offers an extensive material selection for the most critical operating conditions, such as highly controlled bioreactor environments, semiconductor, chemical processing/refinement, and aerospace applications, and is trusted by many of the world’s largest technical and performance brands.
Historically, Mott Corporation produced components using three compaction methods: axial, isostatic, and rolling. However, there are some geometries these techniques are unable to produce. To expand its capabilities, Mott decided to investigate AM, identifying laser powder bed fusion as the best technique for its needs.
The most important consideration for Mott Corporation when choosing a machine was that it had open architecture, to enable the parameter editing that is so essential to research and development work. The organization therefore approached Renishaw to purchase a RenAM 400.
For added control, the company then upgraded its system to the new RenAM 500 Flex machine. This machine is configurable with one (500S) or four (500Q) high power 500 W lasers, and offers automatic or flexible powder and waste handling. The lasers can be used in either modulated or continuous wave regimes, adding an additional level of customization. It uses the same industry leading gas flow system, safety, and precision digital optics as the rest of the RenAM 500 series but offers additional flexibility with the ability to swap the metal powder feedstock in a short amount of time. Incorporating the RenAM 500 Flex reduced machine turnaround and setup times by over 50 per cent, while improving the standard deviation of performance metrics by approximately 30 per cent in certain cases.
“Renishaw’s philosophy is that process parameters should be as customizable as possible,” said John Laureto, Americas Business Manager at Renishaw. “Using the RenAM 500 Flex, Mott Corporation was able to optimize its processes for specific applications and can tweak the parameters as needed for novel projects.”
“Our ethos is to combine our design, filtration, and flow control expertise with cutting edge technology to create highly engineered products,” explained Vincent Palumbo, Program Manager at Mott Corporation. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here. The new machine gives us greater confidence in the reliability and performance of our parts, while speeding up development cycles, and better enabling us to bring our designs to life.”
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