HYBRID MANUFACTURING: THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE PROCESS

As the industry trend is toward larger parts, the key challenge is to find ways to produce parts at lower cost

Another key issue is to reduce as much as possible the time to market.

A typical way to build large moulds is to prepare a pre-milled substructure with cheaper materials.

On top of the pre-milled surface, it’s applied a layer of special bi-component paste, providing the final surface.

The final cycle is to CNC mill the cured paste shell to the required surface height, with the desired accuracy and surface finish quality.

THE MAIN ADVANTAGES

• Paste-Use Optimisation
• Fewer voids
• Accurate time and material costings
• Less costs to build up work-platforms and scaffoldings
• Faster federates when CNC machining
• Reduced finishing times
• Faster turn-around time, reducing lead-times, and costs