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Additive Manufactured
suction nozzles for industrial
vacuums
Industrial vacuum specialist Ringler GmbH, located in
Waldstetten, Germany, and part of the Kärcher Group,
has announced that it has begun making a range of
suction nozzles by Selective Laser Sintering. The Additive
Manufacturing process results in considerably faster
production and enables better airflow properties inside
the nozzle, the company stated.
Standard nozzles are often unable to completely
remove shavings and dust from increasingly complex
workpieces in processing machines. Part cleaning plays
an important role in the industrial production process as
only clean workpieces can be further processed without
faults. Until now, custom-built nozzles entailed high
design engineering and manufacturing costs due to the
large number of individual components.
Typical construction practices involve many individual
metal parts being welded into a single component. In the
selective sintering laser process, nozzles are built in one
piece and require no elaborate assembly design. As a
result, suction nozzles can now be produced in around a
quarter of the original time.
Additive Manufacturing
Users Group opens online
registration for its 2016
conference
The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has
announced that online registration is now available for
its 2016 Education & Training Conference, which will be
held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 3 - 7, 2016. The users
group conference, now in its 28 th year, is open to owners
and operators of Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
technologies.
AMUG brings together engineers, designers, supervisors,
plant managers and educators from around the
world to share expertise, best practices, challenges, and
application developments in additive manufacturing. The
AMUG Conference will include technical sessions and
hands-on workshops designed to help users get more
from, and do more with, their systems.
Through its Technical Competition and Awards
Banquet, excellence in applying Additive Manufacturing
and contributions to the industry will be recognised. The
five-day event also includes the two-night AMUGexpo,
networking receptions, student poster session and
catered meals.
The conference agenda is expected to contain over
200 presentations and hands-on workshops.
www.am-ug.com
The selective sintering laser process enables the nozzles to
be built in one piece instead of many individual metal parts
being welded into a single component.
In addition to improvements in speed and product
design, airflow properties inside the nozzle have been
refined to reduce loss of suction power. The new design
allows for a blowout function to be integrated with a
blast of air through an additional airway connected to a
pressurised airline removing any adhering swarf and dust
or ejecting it from recesses, after which it can easily be
vacuumed up.
www.ringler-gmbh.de
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