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EOS was founded in 1989
and is today the worldleading
manufacturer of
laser-sintering systems. Laser-sintering
is the key technology
for e-Manufacturing. It is used
for the manufacture of products,
patterns or tools in every phase
of the product life cycle. Parts are
generated fast, flexibly and costefficiently,
directly from CAD data.
EOS provides three different
solutions for e-Manufacturing:
- EOSINT P systems build tough
functional parts from polyamide
(nylon) powders, as well as
patterns for investment casting
or vacuum casting from
polystyrene-based powders.
- The product line EOSINT M
processes metal materials using
the Direct Metal Laser-Sintering
(DMLS) method. These systems
are used to create either tooling for
injection moulding or die casting, or
functional metal parts which are used
as end products.
- With EOSINT S, moulds and cores for
sand casting are created by lasersintering
resin-coated foundry sand.
Accelerating product
development
Accelerating Product Development.
Innovative companies from different
industries use the technology in order to
accelerate their product development and
to optimise production processes. laser-sintering
is a widely accepted and applied
technology in the automotive industry.
Unique with laser-sintering is the
fact that it creates parts directly in the
target material. The different plastic,
metal and sand powders offer the
possibility to produce parts that behave
like 'normal parts' which have so far
been manufactured with conventional
technologies like milling or
injection moulding.
Freedom of design
The process also offers a
completely new freedom of
design. 'Impossible parts' can
be manufactured as undercuts or
internal structures are realised without
difficulties. For example, an undercut
develops itself during the building process.
With laser-sintering, the complex
geometry is not a problem, but an
opportunity. The technology is a
profitable solution in cases where
conventional methods such as
injection moulding have been the
preferred production method.
The technology is not only a viable tool
for rapid prototyping. It increasingly
becomes the manufacturing method of
choice in industries that face a high number
of varieties of complex products. This is
especially true for industries that masscustomise
their products. e-Manufacturing
makes mass customisation reality.
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