SICAM Corporation has had one great mission since 1990: To be the industry leader in providing a full range of Engineering, Rapid Product Development, and Manufacturing Services. Great leadership, especially in such a rapidly developing prototype industry, comes with great responsibilities such as constant adaptation and innovation. Business innovation is a process that runs from a mere idea, through development to implementation. SICAM is proud to present SHOTSHEEN™ for a new production finish for Multi Jet Fusion.

This is the first in a series of articles presenting examples of what you can achieve with Multi Jet Fusion. While we have been producing amazing parts for our customers, our confidentiality agreements prevent us from sharing those projects at this time. As an alternative and to demonstrate what Multi Jet Fusion can do we decided to do two things: select and produce parts that are open sourced on the internet and to create our own designs.

This article will highlight the amazing details that can be produced using Multi Jet Fusion.

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New materials have been announced for Multi Jet Fusion. These materials include PA 11, PA 12 Glass Beads and Polypropylene.

Challenges

A government contractor was challenged to find a small lot method to produce a hexagon boot clamp with a temperature performance requirement that was limiting their options. Traditional manufacturing techniques like injection molding and machining were too expensive for short run production. Initial AM methods used to produce these parts fell short on meeting the desired material properties, and failed testing conditions that they were subjected to.

Stereolithography (SLA) models were challenged by temperature limitations, and warped during thermal testing and heating. Each failure would compromise a week of testing for the application.