China3D printingNet November 14 news, Finland’s Etteplan company provides industrial equipment and factory engineering solutions, as well as software and embedded solutions for manufacturing companies around the world.In addition to additive manufacturing, Etteplan also provides many other services, including automation and robotics, digitalTechnology, Factory security and system engineering, electronic design and network security, software test automation and digital product content. All these services are focused on helping the company’s customers to improve their engineering processes, products and services, and Etteplan has done a very good job of these strategies, with revenue of approximately 236 million euros last year.
Recently, the company has cooperated with industrial metals and3D printingThe polymer supplier EOS has achieved a major breakthrough in cooperation, and the two companies have successfully combined3D printingMetal objects are embedded in electronic devices. This is very important because although it is easy to embed electronic devices in FDM parts, it is difficult to do this in powder bed fusion, especially in metal powder bed fusion. With FDM, you can simply pause printing and place a part, and then print uniformly. When using PBF, things such as temperature, powder quality fluctuations, and inert gas environments that need to be printed become difficult.
Tero Leppänen, Director of Etteplan Software and Embedded Solutions Services, said in a company press release: “Metal 3D industrial printing is nothing new, because all parts of industrial production equipment have been carried out worldwide.3D printing.In addition, when the electronic product is made of plastic, the electronic product can be placed in3D printingObject inside. On the other hand, metal powder bed fusion printing (PBF) requires such a high temperature that electronic equipment cannot withstand it.Now, even with metal3D printing, We have also succeeded in keeping the electronic equipment in good working condition. “
With embedded electronics3D printingThis function of metal parts has great application potential in the manufacturing industry, and can actually help realize mass production.
Electronic devices embedded in metal[图片：Etteplan]
The first one created by a partner company3D printingThe demonstration device was shown to the public at the Technology 19 Technology Conference in Helsinki last week. The device has an integrated circuit board and embedded electronics to track acceleration, air humidity, air pressure and humidity sensors. 3D printingThe metal casing of the component is used as an antenna. Up to now, it has been considered extremely difficult or even impossible to complete such a solution using traditional manufacturing methods. But, as we should know by now,3D printingIt is usually possible to make the impossible possible.
Contains embedded electronics3D printingThere are many different potential use cases for metal parts and components. For example, in applications where it is difficult to place sensors. In addition, this feature is very useful in difficult operating conditions that the sensor may not be able to withstand on its own.Etteplan project manager Vesa Saastamoinen said: “An example is a hook, which may include sensors in the future. Sensors will notify weight gain, track fatigue and measure external forces. These data can then be used to predict maintenance needs or estimate the life of equipment.”
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