Manufacturing

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The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center Small Scale Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory Service Center

• Scale model fabrication and prototyping
  • Open-source thermoplastic or filled thermoplastic
    • Open-source filament (1.75 mm or 2.85 mm) or pellets
    • Print Volume up to 1,200 mm x 600 mm x 640 mm (47 x 23.6 x 25 in)
    • High temperatures up to 500°c
  • SLA
    • Print Volume 335 × 200 × 300 mm (13.2 × 7.9 × 11.8 in)
    • 25μm XY Resolution x 25 - 300μm Layer Thickness
    • Uses a variety of resins, from rigid castable, flame retardant to even flexible
  • Melt electrowriting
  • Sol-Electrospinning
  • Pastes (ceramics and pozzolanics)
  • Printing on/with fabric
• Cutting and subtractive manufacturing
  • Laser Engraving
  • CNC processes
• Metrology
  • Laser profilometry
  • LiDAR scanning
  • Visual spectrum photogrammetry
  • IR photogrammetry
  • Acoustic
• Thermoplastic compounding single and twin-screw counter-rotating extruder
  • Gravimetric and volumetric feed options to
  • Throughput range 20g/h to 2.5kg/h
  • Filament Spooler for winding 3D filaments
  • Thermo Scientific™ VariCut Pelletizer with variable pellet sizing
• Manufacturing process research
  • Multi-functional 6-axis robotic arm
  • Environmental enclosures
  • Work cells with automated safety monitoring and electronic safe fire suppression
  • Local or connected air-gapped manufacturing networks for cyber security experimentation
• Multi-scale design, analysis, and engineering research consulting
• Multi-scale material design, analysis, engineering, scale-up, manufacturing process calibration, qualification, and certification
• Full scale prototype and final part fabrication of both indirect and direct use parts and assemblies
• Thermoplastic compounding with: volumetric and/or gravimetric feeding, single and/or twin screw extruders, and custom die and post-processing options
• Small, medium, and large-scale thermoplastic, thermoset, pozzolanic, and continuous fiber additive manufacturing

Also Known As

• 3D Printing
• 3DP
• Additive Manufacturing (AM)
• Prototype Manufacturing
• Experimental Manufacturing
• Jigs
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Subtractive Manufacturing
• Industry 4.0
• Industry 5.0
• UMaine
• ASCC
• CNC
• Laser Engraving (LE)
• 5-axis milling
• 6-axis robot
• Robotics
• Robot Arm
• 3D Printer
• Printing
• Modeling
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Finite Element Modeling (FEM)
• Big Data
• Real-time data
• MT Connect
• Acoustic Monitoring
• Thermoplastics
• Polylactic Acid (PLA)
• Research
• Stereolithography (SLA)
• Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
• Polypropylene (PP)
• Polyamide (Nylon, PA-6, PA-12)
• Polyester, Co-Polyester
• Wood Filled (WF)
• Glass Filled (GF)
• Cyber-security
• Data analytics
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Design for AM (DfAM)
• CAD
• Extruder
• Extrude
• Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
• Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
• Fused Granular Fabrication (FGF)
• Slicing
• Slicer
• Cura, Simplify3D, Ultimaker, Modix, Formlabs, Domobio Nano-spider, Z-Morph, Voron, Ultimaker S5, Modix Big120, Modix 600X, Gigabot, Re3D
• Thermoplastic
• Measuring
• Digital Twin
• Digital Scan
• Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab)
• 3D Model
• .stl
• Infill
• Gyroid
• Nozzle
• Die
• Shell
• G-Code
• Dimensional Inspection
• Dimensional Metrology
• Gantry PrinterCore XY Printer
• Polygonal Modeling
• B-spline and P-spline modeling

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• Community / Public

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