Tool insert for tracheal tube

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Tool insert for tracheal tube

Medical technology & dentistry TruPrint Tool steel Additive manufacturing

This use case demonstrates additive tool and mold making for medical technology. It enables an 80% reduction in the cycle time for plastic injection molding, resulting in large financial savings.

The mold cores contain an internal double helix structure (conformal cooling). It significantly reduces the cycle time for injection molding.

32 tool inserts are produced per build job.

Cost reduction

Shortened cycle times

Higher quality

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Facts & figures about the example part

Weight: 324 g

Production time: 20 h (32 parts)

Number of layers: 1873, ea. 60 µm

Material: 1.2709

Created by: Röchling Direct Manufacturing GmbH

Additive manufacturing in the Röchling Group lets us offer our customers completely new, integrative solutions. In this case, we were able to achieve a significant decrease in cycle time while improving quality and process stability.

Klaus Kantorczyk

Key Account Manager Röchling Medical Waldachtal AG

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TruPrint 3000

TruPrint 3000 is a universal medium-format machine (LMF / PBF / LPBF) with Industrial Part and Powder Management. This mean you benefit from even more flexibility, quality and productivity for your additive series production – now also with the full-field multilaser option with two 500 watt lasers from TRUMPF. Productivity is almost doubled, independent of the component geometry, and the part costs are significantly decreased.

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