Caracol to introduce large-format 3D printer at IMTS
Heron AM platform makes use of 6-axis KUKA robotic to supply large-scale additive elements.
Milan-based Caracol will probably be introducing its robotic giant format additive manufacturing (LFAM) platform for the primary time at a serious US manufacturing tradeshow at this 12 months’s IMTS. The Italian firm’s purpose is to exhibit how producers can produce industrial large-scale 3D printed elements with extra effectivity, flexibility and sustainability utilizing its expertise.
Partnering with KUKA, Caracol will give guests an up-close take a look at the capabilities of LFAM within the robotics firm’s sales space through Caracol’s flagship Heron AM built-in AM platform. The modular hardware-software robotic system works on 6+ axes and is designed to allow producers in aerospace, automotive, power and maritime to supply thermoplastic composite elements with very complicated geometries and with no scale or form limits.
Caracol characterizes its partnership with KUKA because the fruits of years of shut collaboration, throughout which Caracol developed and industrialized its robotic AM platform utilizing KUKA’s six-axis robotic arms for kinematics. KUKA’s selection to pick Caracol as a reference for LFAM purposes on their sales space underscores this shut collaboration and Caracol’s function within the subject of robotic 3D printing.
Along with the demonstration on the KUKA sales space, Carocal will showcase varied buyer initiatives and purposes at its personal sales space in an effort to exhibit the potential of LFAM and robotics for industrial additive manufacturing.
“IMTS’s expanded give attention to additive manufacturing and automation this 12 months highlights the rising impression of those applied sciences in industrial provide chains,” mentioned Violetta Nespolo, chief advertising and marketing and technique officer at Caracol Amm, in a press launch. “Since our inception, we’ve harnessed robotics to revolutionize large-scale 3D printing, enabling unparalleled effectivity, flexibility, and geometric freedom that typical strategies can’t match. We’re excited to showcase these capabilities by way of our buyer initiatives at IMTS 2024.”
The present is scheduled for September 9-14 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
