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Whitepaper Examines Benefits Of DMLS
EOS Electro Optical Systems has released a whitepaper examining the benefits of using direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) to create tooling inserts. Titled 'Optimised Mould Temperature Control Procedure Using DMLS', the study combines descriptions of moulding innovations with documented field results - time, cost savings and quality increases - taken from injection-moulding projects that use tooling manufactured with DMLS.
The whitepaper was written by Siegfried Mayer, application engineer, who has more than 14 years of experience in the tooling sector and is responsible at EOS for tooling and moulding customers. Cooling time can account for up to 70 per cent of injection-moulding cycle times. Traditional methods of creating heating/cooling channels in moulds involve straight-line drilling, which is limited in its ability to develop channels that reach critical hot spots. DMLS enables built-in, conformal cooling channels that can be optimised to draw off heat more rapidly and more evenly, reducing cycle time and increasing part quality by eliminating warpage and other defects.
