The limitations of existing additive manufacturing processes often include long printing times and time-consuming post-processing steps by depowdering the components from a powder bed or removing support structures. The new and innovative MoldJet® process offers a completely new approach and solves the problems of existing AM processes. It contains an enormous productivity up to 1, 600cm3/h and almost no limits to the design variety. The production of metal parts can be flexibly scaled up from one piece to small or medium series. In this paper, the economic efficiency is investigated with regard to the achievable variety of geometries. For this purpose, demonstrator parts made of 316L with different geometry requirements are produced. This is followed by the heat treatment step (thermal debinding and sintering). Finally, the part is characterized from a materials' point of view and the printing process evaluated.
Teuber et al. (Fri,) studied this question.