For high-performance sectors like automotive and aerospace, producing lightweight metal components act as a Holy Grail. As a result, manufacturers are constantly looking for new approaches to design and produce lighter metal components with improved part performance. With its ability to produce intricate patterns, 3D printing might be the answer to the rising demand for lightweight metal components.
Incredible AM Pvt Ltd based in Pune works together with skilled and experienced engineers who turn the vision into reality. Our cutting-edge facility has all the tools required to offer the best solutions to industries at the lowest cost, greatest quality, and quickest lead times. Incredible offers lightweight components for industries such as aerospace, automobiles, defence, medical, shipbuilding, automation, etc.
Why do manufacturers need lightweight metal parts?
Sectors like aerospace and automobiles face the challenges such as maximising fuel efficiency, cutting production costs, and following strict regulatory standards on harmful emissions. One approach to addressing these issues is to produce lightweight components.
Lighter components equate to lighter automobiles and aircraft, which reduces fuel consumption and pollutants. Due to extended lead times and the lack of an economically viable method to fabricate complex geometries, metal light weighting is difficult to achieve with traditional production techniques. Costly tooling (in the case of injection moulding) and high material waste are further deterrents.
3d printing is the solution for lightweight metal parts
3D printing technology, the latest manufacturing technique, creates parts layer by layer, using material only where needed, requiring less material for production and thus bringing down the manufacturing cost. Contrary to conventional production methods, 3D printing makes complexity an advantage, opening the door to the affordable fabrication of intricate, lightweight metal parts.
In addition to being cost-effective for creating lighter metal components, 3D printing is faster than other types of manufacturing processes. Additive manufacturing, a toolless technology, directly produces parts from digital files, greatly speeding the manufacturing process.
How does 3D Incredible make metal parts lighter?
3D Incredible uses sophisticated algorithms, topology optimization, lattice structure and others to create lightweight metal parts. Here, the creation of the lightweight part begins with the designing process using advanced design software. The sophisticated tools and equipment give our skilled engineers the ability to investigate countless design possibilities and discover the best possible lightweight structure of a particular part by adding or removing the material in places, determined by a set of parameters.
Through topology optimization, it is feasible to identify unneeded material from the parts by analysing the stresses placed on a structure, including their direction, location, and amplitude. Once that undesirable piece has been removed, we are left with a part design that is both equally strong and lightweight.
In the lattice structure, when a material is constructed into a lattice, it has the lowest part-to-weight ratio possible while yet being able to support heavy loads. Additionally, the capacity of the structural components to dissipate heat is greatly boosted by an increase in surface area. As a result, high-strength materials can be employed in many heat transfer applications without encountering problems with thermal expansion at high temperatures.
Benefits of using 3d printing in the production of lightweight parts
- Weight reduction of the item without sacrificing the material’s qualities
- Faster cooling of a component
- Conserving material
- Reduction in production time
- Cost-saving process
- Performance improvement of the product
- Better fuel efficiency as a result of weight reduction, less wear on sliding components, and ease of assembly are a few examples.
- Less carbon footprint
Conclusion
Incredible AM Pvt Ltd is pleased with its exciting adventure in the additive manufacturing sector. We have made a concerted effort to ensure that we provide our clients, particularly those from aerospace, automobile, defence and medical fields, with sophisticated, high-quality, and cutting-edge 3D-printed items. Our goal is to provide the best 3D-printed components that are highly accurate and defect-free.
3D Incredible is a one-stop shop for 3d printing solutions and can help with design, and post-processing tasks.
If you require efficient, lightweight components at the best price, we are here to serve you.
