Pattern of a tire sipe shape and a tire tread
3D printed tire sipe detail
The FormUp 350 powder bed melting machine from AddUp
Michelin Molding Solutions (MMS) in Greenville, SC, purchased its second FormUp 350 Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) machine, expanding its global fleet to six.
MMS is very pleased with the productivity and quality achievable with AddUp’s FormUp 350. This level of productivity allowed us to retire older and less productive 3D printers.”
— Glen Nelson, technical development manager at MMS
CINCINNATI, OH, UNITED STATES, March 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ – Michelin Molding Solutions (MMS) in Greenville, SC, has announced its second AddUp FormUp 350 Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) following the successful installation and operation of its first machine. -Machine purchased one in 2022. This machine is the sixth addition to a growing global fleet of FormUps currently in use in Europe and North America. Thanks to the productivity and serial production capabilities of AddUp’s additive manufacturing (AM) machines, each new FormUp 350 replaces five older AM machines.
MMS is Michelin’s global tire vulcanization mold manufacturing division. From locations in Europe, Asia and North America, MMS supplies molds to Michelin tire production facilities around the world. The complex tire geometries required by Michelin for superior tire performance require equally complex shape geometries that cannot always be produced using conventional manufacturing processes. MMS has been using metal AM to meet these requirements for almost twenty years. MMS chose AddUp’s FormUp 350 for its high productivity, robust quality output and state-of-the-art technology for safe metal powder management.
“MMS is very satisfied with the productivity and quality that can be achieved with AddUp’s FormUp 350. This level of productivity allowed us to retire older and less productive 3D printers. “We have seen improvements in the cleanliness and safety of our operations and our operators really appreciate the ease of use from build plate programming to machine setup to the machine user interface,” explains Glen Nelson, technical development manager at MMS.
One FormUp 350 can produce the amount of tire mold inserts that previously required five metal 3D printers, faster and more reliably. Through the industrialization of metal AM over the past two decades, MMS has been able to produce millions of molded sipe inserts with increasingly sophisticated shapes to improve traction and wear over the life of the tire.
About AddUp:
AddUp, a joint venture founded by Michelin and Fives, is a global metal additive manufacturing OEM offering multi-technology production systems, including the FormUp® line of robust, open-architecture powder bed fusion (PBF) machines, as well as the BeAM Modulo and Magic lines of industrial directed energy Deposition (DED) machines.
AddUp’s FormUp 350 PBF series is modular and scalable to provide the highest levels of productivity while ensuring user safety. The DED machines are designed for industrial production and are equipped with self-developed nozzles to ensure maximum precision and very high productivity. To offer customers a true Industry 4.0 solution, AddUp also offers a complete monitoring solution with quality assurance after every single construction.
AddUp is headquartered in Cébazat, France, with a North American subsidiary based in Cincinnati, Ohio and a German subsidiary based in Aachen, Germany. In addition to machine design and manufacturing, AddUp Group also offers parts production, POC production, metal AM consulting services, AM training and design for AM, making AddUp your one-stop metal AM provider. For more information, visit: www.addupsolutions.com.
Sarah Plummer
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