Trio Labs, a North Carolina-based start-up developing advanced manufacturing technology,has introduced a new 3D printing method for high volume production.
With the aim of fundamentally changing manufacturing, the company’s Resin Infused Powder Lithography (RIPL) process boastscomponents with the same performance characteristics asCNC machining和Metal Injection Molding(MIM) at a reduced cost.
“Unlocking 3D printing technology for high volume production”
Founded in 2015, Trio Labs specializes in metal, digital, and additive manufacturing. The company’s team features entrepreneurs with decades of technical experience. As such, Cathy Eldridge, co-founder and COO of Trio Labs, previously acted as the manufacturing plant manager atProcter & Gamble,各局银行的首席执行官。
The aim of this business venture is to develop manufacturing technology that eliminates costs associated with tooling and increase the throughput of established high-volume production processes. The company states:
“We are unlocking 3D printing technology for high volume production. We understand the needs of high volume manufacturers, and we’re working to enable them to do more, do it better, and do it faster than ever before.”
Resin Infused Powder Lithography
In 2017,NC IDEA, aprivate foundation seeking to maximize North Carolina’s economic potential, awarded $300,000 in grants to six startups, including Trio Labs. This funding was given tofurther develop and commercialize the company’s RIPL technology.
RIPL is a method forprecision metal and ceramic fabrication. It is a binder jet 3D printing process, used within ExOne’s latest 3D printer, theX1 25PRO, as well as Desktop metal’sStudio System+, which utilizes materialsused forPowder Injection Molding(PIM).
According to Trio Labs, materials such as stainless steel, carbon, bronze, copper, alumina, and zirconia can be produced with its technology at a lower cost and greater design flexibility in comparison with MIM.
“Existing technologies that operate at reasonable speed are limited in precision to about 50-micron resolution,” explains the company.
“更高的分辨率系统非常慢。这些系统都无法直接产生最终用途组件所需的表面表面处理，也无法以体积制造所需的速度运行。[我们]正在超越这些障碍。”
Progressing precision metal additive manufacturing
Trio Lab’s RIPL method was developed with the contribution from trusted advisors such as Sundar Atre, an Endowed Chair of Manufacturing and Materials at theUniversity of Louisville, Randall German, an expert in powder metallurgy and metal injection molding atSan Diego State University, and Rick Simons, Former President and CEO atHardinge Inc, international provider of metal-cutting solutions.
The team has built its first metal 3D printer prototype for RIPL and is continuing to test its capabilities.
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Featured image shows the design a Resin Infused Powder Lithography 3D printer. Image via Trio Labs.
