Mott Corporation acquires additional AM system from Renishaw
The RenAM 500S Flex has enabled the company to reduce machine turnaround and setup times by more than 50% compared to the older machine
Mott Corporation, a filtration and flow control engineering company, has acquired another metal additive manufacturing machine from global engineering technologies company, Renishaw. The new RenAM 500S Flex machine has enabled Mott Corporation to reduce machine turnaround and setup times compared to previous AM technologies, while giving more confidence in the performance of printed parts.
Mott Corporation specializes in solving filtration and flow control engineering challenges in integrated components, point-of-use sub-assemblies, and integrated subsystems. The company offers an extensive material selection for the most critical operating conditions, such as highly controlled bioreactor environments, semiconductors, chemical processing and refinement, and aerospace applications.
Historically, Mott Corporation produced components using three compaction methods – axial, isostatic, and rolling. However, there are some geometries these techniques are unable to produce. The most important consideration for Mott Corporation when choosing a machine was that it had open architecture – to enable the parameter editing that is essential to research and development work. The organization originally approached Renishaw to purchase a RenAM 400 system.
For added control, the company then upgraded its system to the new RenAM 500S Flex machine. This machine uses the same gas flow system, safety, and precision digital optics as the rest of Renishaw’s RenAM 500 series of AM machines, but offers additional flexibility with the ability to swap the metal powder feedstock in a short amount of time. It is available with either single (S) or quad (Q) laser configuration, and the laser(s) can be used in either modulated or continuous wave regimes – adding an additional level of customization. Incorporating the RenAM 500S Flex reduced machine turnaround and setup times for Mott by over 50% compared to the older machine. It has also improved the standard deviation of performance metrics by approximately 30% in certain cases – giving Mott more confidence in the performance of parts printed on the system.
“Renishaw’s philosophy is that process parameters should be as customizable as possible,” said John Laureto, AM Business Manager at Renishaw Inc. “Using the RenAM 500S Flex, Mott Corporation was able to optimize its processes for specific applications and can tweak the parameters as needed for novel projects.”
“Our ethos is to combine our design, filtration, and flow control expertise with cutting-edge technology to create highly engineered products,” said Vincent Palumbo, Technical Program Manager at Mott Corporation. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here. The new machine gives us greater confidence in the reliability and performance of our parts, while speeding up development cycles, and better enabling us to bring our designs to life… The Flex has been the most popular stop on our facility tours. It’s great to see customers’ reactions to the parts we have been able to create. It has also generated useful dialogue between us and our customers to come up with development projects and think of other components we can design with them in the future.”
