Pierre V. Sabatier Binder Jetting by Desktop Metal tecnologia, scenari e scelte strategiche per la transizione digitale dell'industria manifatturiera

2. Founded by leaders in advanced manufacturing,
metallurgy, and robotics, the company set out to address
the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make
Metal 3D printing indispensable for engineers and
manufacturers around the world.
Since its inception, the company has raised $438 million
in financing and shipped two revolutionary
3D printing technologies
2015 -

3. Desktop Metal factsheet – December 2019
- Founded October 2015
- Based in Boston area – Massachussets (USA) ; teams in EU and APAC
- 300+ employees, mainly engineers, 25+ PhDs
- 100+ patents
- 438$ million raised, tech unicorn
- Already more than 200 customers worldwide (Studio and Production)
- World’s 30 Most Promising Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum
Find more on desktopmetal.com

4. Metal manufacturing landscape
01
_
There is no single process that can
deliver the same quality and cost
from low volume to high volume
production.
02
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There is no single process that can
deliver across the broad spectrum of
part requirements
Metal
Injection
Molding
Quantity
Complexity of Geometry
Investment
Casting
Layer
Powder
Bed Fusion
Extrusion
Die
Casting
Drawing/
Stamping
Machining
High
High-volume
Production
[100,000+]
0
Low Medium
Mid-volume
Production
[10,000-
100,000]
Pilot Runs
[100-10,000]
Prototyping
& one-off parts
[1-100]

5. Designed around the chemistry
and powder supply chain of
metal injection molding (MIM)

6. Metal
Injection
Molding
Quantity
Complexity of Geometry
High
High-volume
Production
[100,000+]
0
Low Medium
Mid-volume
Production
[10,000-
100,000]
Pilot Runs
[100-10,000]
Prototyping
& one-off parts
[1-100]
Investment
Casting
Layer
Powder
Bed Fusion
Extrusion
Die
Casting
Drawing/
Stamping
Metal manufacturing landscape
The Production System disrupted
[high-volume production] by
introducing the fastest, most cost
effective way to manufacture metal
parts of all levels of complexity.
Production
System
Machining

7. Metal
Injection
Molding
Quantity
Complexity of Geometry
Investment
Casting
Layer
Powder
Bed Fusion
Extrusion
Die
Casting
Drawing/
Stamping
Production
System
The Studio System introduced
accessible [low-volume
manufacturing] to office
environments — improving
engineers’ ability to easily produce 1
to 100s of complex metal parts.
Studio
System
Machining
Metal manufacturing landscape
High
High-volume
Production
[100,000+]
0
Low Medium
Mid-volume
Production
[10,000-
100,000]
Pilot Runs
[100-10,000]
Prototyping
& one-off parts
[1-100]

8. Metal
Injection
Molding
Quantity
Complexity of Geometry
Investment
Casting
Layer
Powder
Bed Fusion
Extrusion
Die
Casting
Drawing/
Stamping
Production
System
Studio
System
There is a need for a robust, [mid-
volume] solution to enable reliable,
affordable, and flexible batch
production of complex parts.
Production
System
Machining
Opportunity space
High
High-volume
Production
[100,000+]
0
Low Medium
Mid-volume
Production
[10,000-
100,000]
Pilot Runs
[100-10,000]
Prototyping
& one-off parts
[1-100]
Shop
System

9. Studio System™
Summary
Now you can produce
in house good quality metal parts
§ In days and not weeks
§ For euros and not thousands of euros
§ Without the need of a specific site
§ Without the need of qualified operators
With the advantages of 3D printing

10. Functional prototyping /
Pilot runs
Jigs & fixtures Manufacturing tooling Low volume production / Aftermarket
Studio System™
Across all lifecycle stages

11. Metal Binder jetting
Game changer in productivity
Game changer in cost effectiveness
Print heads jetting binder on metal powder bed
• MIM materials choice
• Incredible level of details
• Improved surface quality
• Improved productivity
DESKTOP METAL
*Based on variables such as part size, part quantity, and layer thickness.

12. Privileged and confidential
Desktop Metal Binder Jetting | Key process features
High-density 3D nesting
• MBJ parts are not welded to a build plate
• Instead, parts are self-supported by loose powder –
enabling full use of the build volume and higher
productivity per build
• Software automatically arranges each part, nesting
them to maximize throughput
Privileged and confidential
Laser Powder Bed
• Housing (4)
• Valve body (3)
• Bracket (6)
Desktop Metal layout (6X)
• Housing (24)
• Valve body (18)
• Bracket (36)

13. Privileged and confidential
Desktop Metal Binder Jetting | Key process features
Cold printing
• Binding agents are printed at room temperature without
the need for heat activation, allowing for the immediate
transfer of the build box to downstream processes
• Binder jet systems with thermal heads/latex require heat
activation slowing down print processes
• Relative to market alternatives, DM Systems cold
printing increases productivity and enables higher
throughput
Privileged and confidential
Spread Jet binder Thermal activation Cool
Thermal head based binder jet
Desktop Metal Binder Jetting System
processSpread Jet binder
Fig 1. Market binder jet system alternatives require
heat activation

14. The worlds fastest metal printing press (8L/hr to 24L/hr)
Desktop Metal
Production System™

15. Powered by: Single Pass Jetting™ (SPJ)
100x faster
20x lower - cost

16. Production System™
Key features

17. Desktop Metal
Production System™

18. Desktop Metal
Production System™

19. Privileged and confidential
Production System | Key process features
Open source materials & process platform
• Manufacturers can procure metal powders directly from
suppliers and manually adjust key process parameters
for greater quality control, as well as control their supply
chain

20. Shop System™
Accessible to all Unparalleled productivity Superior print quality

21. Affordable
turnkey solution
All inclusive system (printing through sintering)
Range of models: 4L, 8L, 12L,16L build boxes
Full config below 500K€
The Shop System contains all pieces of equipment your
machine shop needs to begin binder jetting — from print
through sintering. And with a range of build volume
configurations (4L, 8L, 12L, and 16L), the Shop System
is designed to scale to your shop’s throughput.
_Accessible

22. Solution overview
The Shop System is designed to be the easiest binder jetting system for a machine shop workflow. The entire
process is facilitated by just five pieces of equipment :
03 Powder station
04 Furnace
The system is complemented by a vac for powder
management.
01 Printer
02 Drying oven
05 Blender
01
02
0304
05

23. Up to 10x faster
Up to 10x faster than laser-based systems
Print up to 70kg of parts/day
With a high-speed, single-pass print engine, the Shop
System produces high-quality metal parts up to 10x
faster than laser powder bed fusion—producing up to
70kg of metal parts per day.
_Unparalleled Productivity
Note: All references to mass are based on steel.

24. Ultimate flexibility
No tooling required
No custom set-ups required per design
Simultaneously produce multiple complex jobs
Easily switch powders in a single shift
The Shop System is a tooling-free manufacturing
process. Change over to a new job at the press of a
button and process multiple complex jobs without the
need for custom setups.
_Unparalleled Productivity

25. Superior
print quality
High resolution parts
Fine feature detail
Superior surface finish
Print customer-ready, high-resolution parts with incredibly
fine feature detail. Achieve surface finishes as low as 4µm
Ra out of the furnace, and <0.1µm Ra with mass finishing.
The Shop System produces fully dense, solid parts, no
debind or infill required.

26. High-resolution
printing
1600 x 1600 native DPI
Over 670 million drops/second
The Shop System features the highest resolution single-
pass binder jetting system in the market. With 1600x1600
DPI native (33% higher resolution than comparable
systems), and over 670M drops per second, the Shop
System delivers high-speed, high-resolution printing.
_Superior print quality

27. Adaptive
print engine
Smallest droplet size (~1 pL)
Automated drop multiplexing
Surface finish as low as 4 µm Ra
Users don’t have to sacrifice feature detail or resolution
for speed. Employing the smallest droplet size of any
single pass binder jetting system (~1 pL) and automated
drop multiplexing up to 6 pL, the Shop System achieves
superior surface finish, bleed control and rich feature
detail at high speed.
_Superior print quality Traditional
binder jetting
Shop System with
drop multiplexing

28. Produce various part
geometries simultaneously
without the need for
multiple setups.
Mixed volume production
_Scenario 01

29. Cost effectively produce low
volume batches of complex parts
due to elimination of tooling.
Batch production
_Scenario 02

30. Produce hundreds of
near-net-shape parts every
day with dramatically reduced
labor costs and expanded
geometric flexibility.
Mid-volume production
_Scenario 03

31. Shop System™
The world’s first binder jetting
turnkey solution.
Production System™
The world’s fastest metal
3D printer.

32. Energy Group è Partner Desktop Metal Italia.
Azienda appartenente a THE3DGROUP, è centro di
competenza italiano per la stampa 3D professionale a
supporto dell’innovazione delle aziende.
SEDE PRINCIPALE E POLO TECNOLOGICO
Bentivoglio (BO)
Via C. Monari Sardè, 2/2
Tel. +39 051 864519
www.energygroup.it
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