MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Stratasys, Inc (NASDAQ: SSYS) announced it has begun commercial shipment of its new FDM 900mc direct digital manufacturing machine. The company says it has taken a record number of orders for its large-format machines.
Historically, Stratasys additive fabrication machines were used strictly for rapid prototyping, but the 900mc was developed specifically for use in direct digital manufacturing (DDM) applications. The machine is designed to serve this growing trend in low-volume manufacturing, especially in the automotive, aerospace, consumer product, and heavy industry markets. All 17 units will be used in direct digital manufacturing applications for either end-use parts or fabrication & assembly tools, and some of them will double in high-end functional prototyping applications.
FDM 900mc Accuracy and Repeatability Rivals Injection Molding
The 900mc development program was driven to produce high standards of accuracy & repeatability. With a confidence factor of greater than 99%,
the 900mc has a accuracy rating of +/- .005 inch [or +/-.0015 inch per inch, whichever is greater] (+/- .127 mm [or +/- .0015 mm per mm whichever is greater]).
Accuracy Study Details
The Stratasys quality department completed an FDM 900mc accuracy study, using three FDM 900mc machines, and building 144 standard test parts with 27 measurements per part, for a total of 3888 measured dimensions. Results revealed that dimensions were 99.9% in specification, or in other words, only one in one thousand measurements did not fall within the specification.
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