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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 9, 2008
Of the 34 manufacturers of additive fabrication equipment worldwide, Stratasys is the first to reach 10,000 installations.
PSA Peugeot Citroen, Brazil, has purchased Stratasys' 10,000th additive fabrication machine.
The landmark system sale was a high-precision FDM 400mc for the automaker's product engineering facility in Porto Real City, Rio de Janeiro State.
The automaker is a business unit of PSA Peugeot Citroen, France, the second-largest European automaker, and a strong competitor in the Mercosur Market.
The company produces both the Peugeot and the Citroen lines of automobiles.
Design engineers will perform both rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing with the equipment.
Engineers will mainly prototype components like grilles, trim and mirrors, but also interior and drive-train parts.
"We'll also use the equipment to pioneer direct digital manufacturing at PSA Peugeot Citroen Brazil", says Milton Bueno da Silva Neto, who is responsible for the prototype development division in Mercosur country plants, Argentina and Brazil.
"Building fabrication and assembly tools like jigs and fixtures for the production process can deliver immediate ROI by eliminating the time and expense of machining".
Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is the technique of feeding CAD data directly to additive fabrication machines to produce components for end use.
Although many manufacturers install the components in their products, even more build fabrication and assembly tools for their production processes.
For low-volume production, DDM has numerous benefits, including the elimination of machining and tooling.
"It's a faster and more economical method of producing parts than other manufacturing processes", says da Silva Neto.
"And the number of high-performance materials available with our new system - such as ABS, PC, PPSF, and blends - gives us flexibility to create parts for a variety of functions".
Worldwide, PSA Peugeot Citroen owns 14 Stratasys additive fabrication machines at various locations.
This includes six Dimension 3D printers and eight high-precision FDM systems.
Of the 34 manufacturers of additive fabrication equipment worldwide, Stratasys is the only one to have reached 10,000 installations.
"Stratasys continues to stand out in unit sales", said industry consultant Terry Wohlers, president of Wohlers Associates.
"No other company in the business has come close to selling similar volumes in recent years".
This is largely due to Dimension 3D printer sales.
The system purchased by PSA Peugeot Citroen, Brazil, the Stratasys FDM 400mc, is among the most accurate and repeatable additive fabrication systems available.
And when used in conjunction with the company's new thermoplastic formulation - ABS-M30 - it creates parts up to 67% stronger than the standard Stratasys ABS formulation.
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