Originally an R&D unit of global laser and manufacturing tools giant Trumpf, One Click Metal spun off into an independent company when leadership saw an opportunity to transmute the parent company’s laser expertise into disruptive business gold. One Click Metal’s MPRINT (left) handles metal additive manufacturing from a safe and clean powder cartridge system while the MPURE machine (right) unpacks components and autonomously sieves unused powder for reuse. The mission is to give thousands of small and midsize enterprise (SME) manufacturing firms that form the backbone of Europe’s economy a way to quickly and affordably prototype high-performance products and components and design serial parts that benefit from metal 3D printing’s possibilities. It has created a metal-additive printing system called BOLDseries that is affordable, portable, and easy to use, without compromising on part quality. German company One Click Metal wants to change all that. The technology has improved steadily for more than a decade, but it’s still complex to use compared to mainstream 3D printing, as well as reliant on large and complex machines. Today’s manufacturing firms can achieve similar outcomes without the mess and energy consumption using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)-a type of metal additive manufacturing fed by purified metal powder.Īlthough 3D printers can be found everywhere from schools to factory floors, metal 3D printing isn’t so common-in part because printing metal has been punishingly expensive. Shaping metal into forms used to mean firing up a massive forge to superheat raw ore, sending hot rivulets of lavalike alloy down a gutter to cool in a silicon mold. 3D prototypes appear in just a few clicks, using next-generation metal additive tech that previously only big companies with big budgets could afford.The company’s compact machine uses the latest generative design tools to transmute metal powder into business gold.Germany’s One Click Metal has created an affordable, safe, and simple way for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to accelerate product development. Making metal 3D printing more affordable and accessible to small and midsize manufacturers will allow more innovators to turn their visions into reality.
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