Four Years, Four Machines. Farsoon and rpm add SLS Production Line Automation with Powder Management System (PMS)
On the 19th of February 2020, rpm confirmed the purchase of their first two Farsoon systems, the SS403P and HT403P. Now, four years later, rpm has four systems in total: three CO2-laser systems and one of the first Farsoon Dual Fiber Laser Light (“Flight”) Systems in Europe and brought the Powder Management System (PMS) into…
Cost-Effective Aftermarket Production: Large Plastic Parts for Commercial and Municipal Vehicles
When manufacturing specialty commercial and municipal vehicles, a key challenge lies in sourcing large plastic parts for aftermarket production when series tooling reaches the end of its life. Particularly items like bumpers, side boards, electrical routing boards and large covers the sourcing is significantly higher because there are fewer potential suppliers and higher delivery costs…
rpm invests to expand capacity for 3D printing series production and strengthens its partnership with Farsoon Europe GmbH
rpm, the highly experienced manufacturing service provider for plastic parts, has significantly expanded its production capacities for 3D-printed series products. The Farsoon Flight ® system will add additional speed gains to production and allow rpm to add system running predominantly black materials. The current investments enable rpm to meet the steadily growing demand for high-quality…
Series 3D Printed Computer Mount for Garmin and Wahoo produced for Canyon Bicycles
Still not convinced a 3D printed product can be a series manufacturing runaway success? The Forward AM | Canyon Garmin PA11 CF Bicycle Mount is designed and produced with additive manufacturing and sold out in one week, leading to an almost immediate order of the second batch of parts. These bicycle mounts for on-board computers…
First European Production Center for the new material ETR 90 (Elastic ToughRubber™) is rpm rapid product manufacturing
As part of the strategic growth of their additive manufacturing business unit, rpm rapid product manufacturing has added DLP (Digital Light Projection) in large format using the EnvisionTec Xtreme 8K and the Adaptive3D material ETR 90 (Elastic ToughRubber™). ETR 90 is part of a growing set of additive materials that are designed for long term…
rpm awarded public funding to research complex, elastic Lattices using 3D Printing
rpm – rapid product manufacturing is the leading partner in an ZIM research grant to develop complex elastic Lattices using 3D Printing. The grant, “Development of elastic lattice structures using additive manufacturing for various applications” came from the German AiF. Central to the project is the Digital Light Synthesis process and EPU41/EPU40 materials from Carbon 3D. Over the next year, rpm…
rpm reaches a new level of data Security and information management with TISAX certification renewal
Since 2017, rpm – rapid product manufacturing GmbH has successfully completed two TISAX Certification assessments (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange). In June 2020, they completed their second certification cycle. This achievement represents a continuous investment and upgrading of their information security system for serving top tier automotive customers. But the high data security procedures also…
rpm Invests in Speed. Installation of Two New Farsoon Machines.
On the 5th of May, rpm (rapid product manufacturing GmbH) was founded with two new SLS machines to begin producing prototypes and small series parts for German OEMs and their tier supplier network. Now, exactly 23 years later on the 5th of May 2020, rpm installed two new Farsoon Polymer Laser Sintering Machines with a focus on…