Metal additive manufacturing machine HSTM-LC

The HSTM-LC is an offer of a ful­ly auto­mat­ed machin­ing cen­ter to man­u­fac­tur­ers of tur­bine and com­pres­sor blades that fea­tures com­pre­hen­sive mea­sur­ing tech­nol­o­gy and a laser cladding unit to pro­vide them with deci­sive tech­no­log­i­cal advan­tages when machin­ing com­po­nents made of high-tem­per­a­ture nick­el-based alloys or titanium. The HSTM exceeds the high­est require­ments of mod­ern blade machin­ing in terms of achiev­able accu­ra­cies and sur­face qual­i­ties. Laser cladding 3D laser cladding is essen­tial­ly a 3D print­ing tech­nique based on weld­ing, in which met­al is melt­ed with a laser and clad onto a part. This is pos­si­ble with vir­tu­al­ly all con­ven­tion­al weld met­als. In addi­tion, the con­cen­trat­ed heat input and low mate­r­i­al impact allow dif­fi­cult-to-weld mate­ri­als to be deposited. Appli­ca­tion in a turning/milling machine cre­ates a new price advan­tage for these sys­tems and also has the advan­tage that the applied met­al can be sur­face fin­ished by milling/polishing in a sin­gle clamping. Advantages of buildup welding In addi­tion to recon­di­tion­ing worn or dam­aged areas of a com­po­nent, laser cladding can com­bine dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als to improve com­po­nent prop­er­ties. Laser cladding, for exam­ple, per­mits the effec­tive com­bi­na­tion of dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als.