Burner Model Steam Train

Characteristics

Printing technique: LPBF
Material: Stainless steel 316L (1.4404)
Size: 450 x 80 x 80 mm
Post-processing: Drumming

The reasons to switch to 3D metal printing:

High investment costs in tools

A lot of manual work

Lots of assembly

Heavy product

Advantages of 3D metal printing:

-80% number of parts
-20% weight
-50% lead time
-10% cheaper

In practice: