Linear Mold & Engineering expands AM leadership, offerings

Being creative in designing and building molds is one way to grow business, but Linear Mold & Engineering has added value and expanded its business by offering training classes and contract staffing for companies wanting to enter the Additive Manufacturing (AM) arena. 

As an early adopter of the AM 3D printing process, Linear Mold is now offering courses designed to provide engineers and product developers expert instruction in product and process knowledge. Linear’s instructors work with engineers and product developers to give them exposure to the various technologies available in AM including Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and FDM technology.

“We’ll make your part in our hands-on lab while you watch and learn useful tips and techniques to help you build proficiency in 3D printing,” states John Tenbusch, Linear’s president. “Building your part or product as part of the training course means you have access to exclusive product and process knowledge from the experts at Linear.”

Linear offers a variety of standard courses as well as custom training services tailored to the customer’s specific needs. In addition to rapid prototyping services, end-use parts and conformal cooling channels for molds, Linear provides a wide range of engineering capabilities including “black box” design, engineering changes, reverse engineering, packaging studies, part/mold analysis, and data translation.

“Through Linear’s new contract staffing service, we will help our clients with staffing solutions for hiring talented, hard-to-find, skilled personnel in tooling, design, manufacturing, program management, and engineering,” explains Paul Parzuchowski, business development director. “Linear will perform contract work through hourly consultants working temporarily onsite, reporting to the client; a contract-to-hire option to hire our consultants after a predetermined period; and direct placement – permanent-employee candidates recruited by Linear and prescreened for the client.”

Linear is one of the largest AM service bureaus in the Upper Midwest, and with four EOS M270s, one EOS M280, and one SLM280 and almost a decade of experience, Linear is recognized as the largest, privately owned provider of 3D metal printing services in North America.

Linear is a manufacturer of injection and compression molds, blow molds, vacuum form molds, polyurethane foam tooling, silicon molds, and hybrid molds. Linear also performs low-volume injection molding, mold tryouts, high-volume injection mold and CMM layouts.