It is real common nowadays to use 3D printing techniques as process optimization in industrial production evironments. In our Bronkhorst premises in Ruurlo we also use 3D-printers for our own product and process development. 3D-Printers are indispensible within our production environment, it has brought us a new and very accessible and flexible way of manufacturing.
Within a few hours, we can evaluate the design of a component: will it really work in the way we expected it, does it really fit? You can read all about our experiences here in our blog ‘Product & process optimization by use of 3D printers’.
But it also goes the other way around. Not only do we use 3D printers in the production proces of flow meters, but these flow meters and flow controllers are also used inside 3D-printers as well.
In this blog I would like to share an application with you explaining how mass flow meters are used in the 3D printing machines of one of our German customers in the machine building industry.