Additive Manufacturing Capability

UMS offers additively manufactured components utilizing professional-grade SLA/LFS (Formlabs Form3L with Rebound) and SLS (Formlabs Fuse1) printed parts that are highly accurate, isotropic, and watertight in a wide range of advanced materials, including Nylon 11, Nylon 12, casting wax, clear resin for transparent applications, paintable gray-scale resins, and many more with fine features and smooth surface finishes.  This allows us to help our customers realize their end-use products through rapid prototyping and quick iterations that lead to a faster testing and final production schedule.

UMS can produce short-run production parts to take to “test markets” or we can produce highly complex “one-off” parts in a much more economical fashion than traditional manufacturing methods.  We are willing to work with our customers to realize their products in whatever capacity they may need to utilize our services.

UMS utilizes additive manufacturing in parallel with other manufacturing techniques to aid in streamlining workflow and bringing functional parts to market faster.  We can 3D Print short-run production plastic injection mold cavities much faster than they can be made through conventional means.  This allows for rapid iteration and refinement of the process before going to the expense of having production tooling created.

Should our customers be interested in other uses for 3D Printed Parts, such as the creation of Carbon Fiber Molds, we are more than willing to discuss their process with them, or “print-on-demand” to get our customers the tooling they need for their project.

Supportive Materials and Current Maximum Build Volume Sizes:

1. SLA (Resin) build volumes are 335 mm x 200 mm x 300 mm (13.2 in x 7.9 in x 11.8 in)
2. SLS (Nylon) build volumes are 165 mm x 165 mm x 300 mm (6.5 in x 6.5 in x 11.8 in)
3. MJF (Nylon Glass Bead) build volumes are 380 mm x 284 mm x380 mm (15 in x 11.2 in x 15 in)
4. MJF Nylon Powders with HP PA 12 Glass Bead