China3D printing3DQue Systems, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based startup, is working on enabling FFF and FDM 3D printingAutomation of machine networks to ensure mass production. The technology it provides is really cool, and it provides solutions to common problems in technology scaling, such as unit cost, autonomous parts removal, and automated production. The QPod is its high-volume plastic 3D printing volume production unit, powered by its QSuite automation software and featuring a vertical build platform.
Now, 3DQue is sending each3D printerOperators provide their know-how so that they can automatically print multiple jobs 24/7. This week, the startup is releasing its 3DQue cycle kit for the Ender 3, an upgrade kit that promises more efficient and convenient printing and includes everything needed for remote printer startup, reset, and automatic part release Required hardware and software.
Mateo Pekic, co-founder and CIO of 3DQue said, “At 3DQue, we don’t need to wait all day for a printer, we don’t want you to work for the printer, we want your printer to work for you.”
Since May, 3DQue has been pushing its continuous automation technology to the max, printing face shields to help amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But it also serves a dual purpose.During the company’s recently released Livestream, the Ender 3’s Looping Kit was announced, and team members explained that it gave them the opportunity to complete their remote3D printing technologystress test.
LR: 3DQue co-founder Mateo Pekic and intern Kevin during a live webinar.The Ender 3 shown here is at a 30° angle, which is gentler than the typical 90° angle
In just five days, 3DQue was able to print a total of 897 face shield goggles in just 1,000 hours of print time on just nine printers. Of those 1,000 hours, the actual operator spent less than three hours checking the nozzle and refilling the plastic filament. This is only 0.3% of the total printing time, which is significantly less than the typical time (over 100 hours) in a mass production job to upload files, reapply adhesive, inspect the printer, and pull out the complete part.
“In 3D printing, the time frame of reference includes machine time, but often does not take into account operator time. Nor is posing next to the machine at the beginning and end of the printing process,” 3DQue explained in a press release.
last week,The company’s interns Pekic and Kevin moderateThe session titled “How Our Printers Can Produce 897 Face Shields in Just 5 Days Without Us” discusses the company in general and discusses how 3DQue was able to do 1,000 hours in five days using the newly provided automated print cycle technology of continuous printing, with nine printers running non-stop, produced nearly 900 face shield goggles. Interestingly, they used a total of 20 rolls of filament for this project!
Pekic explained that with 3DQue’s Ender 3 Looping Kit, which includes an auto-release print bed and remote access software, anyone can do any print, anywhere, anytime.
At the heart of our technology is automatic part release. The printer cleans up automatically. “
according toChina 3D Printing NetworkUnderstand that the team recently established a production facility in Vancouver with a total of 36 units3D printerand unusual vertical print tables and split 9 of them to “see how many hours of downtime we would have if we ran 1000 printers.A key part of automation and what 3D printing tends to lack is the inconsistency between prints, as most systems are designed for the operator so that the operator can use it there, align, calibrate and stay there to observe the start printing, so how do we make sure everything stays consistent?3DQue uses an inductive probe for automatic bed leveling.
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