Functional prototyping

As a part of R&D projects and customer orders different prototypical solutions and product developments up to small series have been realized.
Prototypes and engineered products that were successfully realized thanks to additive processes include:

• adapters, mounts, devices and housings for metrological applications (prototypes, accessories, spare parts)
• cooling / tempering devices (prototypes)
• flushing devices for optical sensors (prototype and small series)
• gauge heads for optical and magnet resonance processes (prototypes)
• tools for injection moulding (prototypes)
• customer specific product development, construction and additive manufacturing to order

Additionally, we handle process-related developments like:

• optimizing efficiency of additive series manufacturing of small components
• additive manufacturing of transparent plastics and illuminated advertising components
• additive processes for hybrid component manufacturing
  

The additive processing was done as Fused Deposition Modeling (Fused Filament Fabrication / Fused Granular Fabrication). On the one hand, the advantage of FDM is the wide range of suitable materials: basically all available thermoplastics can be processed, including extrusion and fused deposition types – although not all materials are equally suited. On the other hand, the market offers a large choice of different machines especially for filament-based processing – from hobby device to industrial-suited machine. Therefore FDM is currently the most widely used method.