Showstoppers of 2014: Bigger is better in additive manufacturing
One of the most exciting new products in the equipment category at the Rapid 2014 3D printing/additive manufacturing trade show and conference came from a partnership between Cincinnati Inc. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that produced the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAMci) machine.This big boy is a large-scale AM system capable of producing polymer components up to 10 times larger than currently producible, and at speeds 200 to 500 times faster than existing additive machines.
November 21, 2014
One of the most exciting new products in the equipment category at the Rapid 2014 3D printing/additive manufacturing trade show and conference came from a partnership between Cincinnati Inc. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that produced the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAMci) machine.
This big boy is a large-scale AM system capable of producing polymer components up to 10 times larger than currently producible, and at speeds 200 to 500 times faster than existing additive machines.
The partnership also displayed the BAAMci at the IMTS Show this fall, where it printed the component parts for a full-sized, drivable car (pictured below) on the show floor in just 44 hours!
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