Flexible Manufacturing
The Shop System™ is designed to seamlessly integrate into your shop’s workflow to improve productivity across any range of manufacturing scenarios. The Shop System™ is an end-to-end, single-pass binder jetting solution delivering high-resolution parts at a fraction of the time and cost. The Shop System contains all pieces of equipment your machine shop needs to begin binder jetting — from print through sintering.
Superior Print Quality
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.
Unparalleled Productivity
Amplify your shop’s output. Effortlessly print end-use metal parts with with the quality, surface finish and tolerances required to co-exist with machining.
Easy to use and operate
Designed with the modern machine shop in mind, the Shop System is built to fit seamlessly into your workflow. Produce parts with superior surface finish and resolution versus laser-based systems at a fraction of the cost.**
The Shop System™ Solution Overview
Printer
The Shop System printer features the highest resolution printhead on the market with over 70,000 nozzles jetting 1pL droplets at nearly 10 kHZ to achieve high res parts at a fraction of the cost and speed of laser-based systems.
Drying Oven
After printing, the build box containing the printed parts is placed into a crosslink oven. Crosslinking is a thermal cure process that gives printed parts in the green state additional strength before depowdering.
Powder Station
With easy access portholes, a hand-held air pick, built-in powder sieving and recycling, and a vacuum port for easy powder maintenance, the powder station provides closed-loop powder management and recycling.
Furnace
The Shop System furnace is a shop-safe high-temp sintering oven built for cost-effective high throughput. Featuring external gas hookup and adjustable shelving, the furnace easily and affordably scales to mid-volume manufacturing.
Shop System™
The world’s first metal binder jetting system designed for machine shops.
The Shop System™ introduces high quality binder jetting to an entirely new market of machine shops. Shops can now cost effectively 3D print end use metal parts with unparalleled speed and productivity.
The Shop System™ contains all the 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.
Shop System Case Study
PGV Industries Case Study
Based in Karnes City, Texas, PGV has more than three decades of experience
manufacturing equipment for the oil and gas, aerospace and robotics and automation
industries. Along with traditional manufacturing via CNC machining, the company is
now moving into next-generation manufacturing by integrating production-level metal
3D printing into their capabilities.
Shop System Materials
17-4 stainless steel
17-4 PH stainless steel is a precipitation hardening steel used in a wide range of industrial applications including those with mildly corrosive environments and high-strength requirements.
- Manufacturing machinery
- Chemical processing
- Food processing
- Pump components
- Valving
- Fasteners
- Jigs and fixtures
316L stainless steel
316L stainless steel is a fully austenitic, non-magnetic steel ideal for harsh environments and characterized by its corrosion resistance, performance at both high and low temperatures, and high ductility.
- Chemical and petrochemical processing
- Food processing
- Laboratory equipment
- Medical devices
- Marine applications
- Jewelry
- Power generation
- Petroleum refining
- Water treatment
- Pulp and paper manufacturing
304L stainless steel
304L stainless steel is a fully austenitic, non-magnetic steel ideal for structural components, food processing equipment and much more.
- Structural components
- Food processing equipment
- Jewelry & decorative items
- Fluid transfer components
CoCrMo
Cobalt Chrome (F75) is an alloy of Cobalt and Chrome for use in demanding applications and characterized by its corrosion resistance with high strength and wear resistance.
- High Temp applications
- Dental industry
Nickel Alloy 625
Inconel 625 is a high nickel super alloy ideal for harsh environments in or out of water.
- Excellent Fatigue
- High tensile
- Heat treatable
- Weldable