Unlock your Metal Research Potential, Attract Top Talent, and Investment
Strong research programs help universities stand out and make a difference. They promote discovery and innovation, enabling greater contributions to the academic community and society. As universities become recognized for their research in specific fields, they become magnets for top students and faculty, grants, partnerships, media interest, and even philanthropy. Cutting-edge technologies, such as additive manufacturing (AM), bring relevant experience to research institutions to provide an unparalleled education and research experience.
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What Can Additive Manufacturing Do for You?
- Elevate your university’s brand
- Create cutting-edge research and industrial collaboration opportunities
- Forge relationships with the business community
- Generate opportunities to license new intellectual property and inspire start-ups
- Foster grant and endowment opportunities
- Enhance student recruitment and faculty retention
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Why Choose One of Our Special Offer Metal 3D Printing Bundles?
- Establish your market presence in metals additive manufacturing with an unmatched solution
- Keep your lab running efficiently for three years with all-inclusive packages
- Make your ordering process simple
- Benefit from significant savings
Specially-Developed Metal 3D Printing Solutions for Academic and Research Institutions
3D Systems' DMP bundles for academic and research institutes make it an appealing choice for research organizations interested in metal AM. Packaging the DMP Flex 200 or DMP Flex 350 high-performance printers with software and service, all included in 3D Systems’ special academia bundle offers, create a complete and economical solution to keep your lab running efficiently for 3 years. The solution includes:
A Choice of Powerful and Versatile Metal 3D Printers
Option 1: DMP Flex 200 metal 3D printer and associated process equipment and accessories, including 500W laser, process chamber with airlock and vacuum cleaner hookup, chiller, fume filter, standard one-year warranty, 3D Connect adapter, oxygen room monitor, sifter assembly, vacuum for reactive materials, process filter assembly
Option 2: DMP Flex 350 metal 3D printer and associated process equipment and accessories, including 500W laser, RPM with cart, chiller, vacuum, filter, standard one-year warranty, 3D Connect adapter, DMP Monitoring, sieving system, oxygen room monitor, vacuum for reactive materials, process filter assembly
LaserForm 316L starter kit: To get you started with a safe-to-use material and associated extensively developed, tested and optimized print parameters, a LaserForm 316L stainless steel kit is included in the bundles.
Build volume reducers: Ideal for academic innovators looking to test, experiment and develop new alloy formulations or print limited quantities of precious metals, build volume reducers are included in the DMP Flex 200 and DMP Flex 350 bundles.
Installation and Training
3D Systems’ experts will install your new DMP Flex 200 or Flex 350 and calibrate it to specification. We will also train your operators at one of our facilities. They will spend seven days learning to operate your new system at one of our Customer Innovation Centers in either Leuven, Belgium, or Littleton, Colorado.
Powerful Software – Three-year Subscription with Ten Student Seats
3DXpert Educational software saves labor and part cost while giving your team complete control over your additive manufacturing workflow. A three-year subscription is included with the academic bundle and includes up to 10 student seats which can enable research team utilization.
Available with the DMP Flex 350 bundle, DMP Monitoring and 3DXpert Build Insight three-year subscription enable to analyze process monitoring data, visualize detected anomalies in 3D and diagnose build design and printer related issues.
Maintenance and Tech Support – Two Years of Service in Addition to One Year Warranty
The academia bundle adds two years of service coverage and preventative maintenance on top of the one-year standard warranty and preventative maintenance of the DMP Flex line of metal 3D printers. It also includes unlimited remote technical support, onsite labor, discounted replacement parts and printer software and firmware updates.
This special offer is exclusive to academic and research institutes, subject to eligibility. Other exclusions may apply.
Propel Your Research Center with 3D Systems’ Metal 3D Printing Solutions
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Achieve Premier Part Accuracy, Surface Finish, and Quality
When you’re researching applications for metal additive manufacturing, whether you’re working to improve air movement, fluid flow or thermal management, you’ll appreciate DMP Flex 200 and DMP Flex 350 printers’ ability to produce high density metal parts with superb surface finish, accuracy and repeatability. Furthermore, for quality and process control with DMP Flex 350, visualization and monitoring tools provide the data and analysis you need for advanced development.
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Experiment with an Open, Customizable System
Research is expanding across the 3D printing landscape, from product design to production, post-processing and beyond. Software is a critical component and should help your team maximize design freedom, experimentation and customization with both the printer and materials. 3DXpert® software from 3D Systems allows for unprecedented control over the entire design-to-manufacturing workflow, enabling streamlined production of high-quality, optimized parts, while boosting innovation.
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Explore More Metals
If your additive manufacturing research involves working with strong, dense metals such as gold, tungsten and platinum or super alloys made with nickel or cobalt, you’ll need a system that can handle an extensive variety of materials. 3D Systems has developed print parameters for a wide range of metals, such as aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, nickel, cobalt-chrome, copper, maraging steel alloys (availability depending on the DMP printer model). To experiment small quantities of exotic and/or expensive materials, the build volume reducers are ideal.
With the DMP Flex 200, you are able to process spherical and non-spherical powders covering a wide range of particle sizes. Our patented and unique roller/recoater system was designed with this in mind, allowing you to achieve perfect layers from almost any powder specification and morphology. As to the DMP Flex 350, its vacuum chamber concept results in low oxygen content, enabling exceptionally strong parts of high chemical purity in materials such as titanium, tungsten or copper.
Add Value to Your Academic Innovators and Local Communities
See how other institutions are using metal additive manufacturing solutions from 3D Systems to drive their research forward.
Deliver Your Cutting-Edge Breakthroughs with DMP Technology
Compactness, Safety and Versatility with the DMP Flex 200
The small footprint of the DMP Flex 200 (1210 x 1720 x 2100 mm - 48 x 68 x 83 in) makes it easier for research departments to install it in their labs. It features sealed powder loading and recycling, which prevents contamination, and an external vacuum cleaner hookup, which allows the build chamber to be cleaned without opening the door. Collectively, these features increase operator safety while promoting a clean working environment. The compact build volume (140 x 140 x 115 mm - 5.51 x 5.51 x 4.53 in) of the DMP Flex 200 is ideal for experimentation with smaller quantities of material and can help organizations save on acquisition and material storage costs, especially when dealing with precious or exotic materials. It comes with a patented roller recoater system that is not sensitive to powder morphology, particle size distribution or general flowability specifications.
Chemical Purity and Flexibility with the DMP Flex 350
The DMP Flex 350 is designed for flexible application use for academic research projects. Quick-swap build modules enable easy material switches. Due to the unique vacuum chamber concept of the DMP Flex 350, it is showing best in class oxygen purity (<25 ppm). This results in exceptionally strong parts of high chemical purity. Its bi-directional recoating system consistently and accurately deposit fresh powder and enables the use of smaller powder particles and deliver parts with higher density, finer detail and the thinnest possible walls.
High Powered Laser
Developing parts that are stronger, lighter and more functional and successfully processing a wide range of metals and alloys requires a high-powered laser. Whereas most comparable competitive systems offer lasers in the 200 to 400 watt range, the DMP Flex 200 includes a single 500 watt laser that delivers outstanding performance in a compact form, also equipping the DMP Flex 350.
3DXpert Educational Software
The 3DXpert Educational is an all-encompassing software package that is fully compatible with the DMP Flex family of 3D printers and provides users with total control over their workflow with an open architecture for custom material parameter development. Specifically designed with research in mind, it maximizes design freedom while ensuring a streamlined and repeatable methodology for producing high-quality, optimized parts.
Connect Your Technologies and Machines Together
Increase innovation and efficiency with a single, technology-neutral and hardware agnostic Manufacturing OS that connects your applications and machines. Combining artificial intelligence with machine learning and IoT, you can track every action with a digital thread for complete traceability and visibility. Connect specialist applications for design, additive manufacturing, CNC milling, robotics, reverse engineering, and inspection with Oqton’s intelligent Manufacturing OS.
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Metal 3D Printing Bundles for Academic and Research Institutes
Propel your innovation hub with 3D Systems’ all-inclusive metal 3D printing bundles.
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Rapidly Adopt and Scale Metal Additive Manufacturing
How 3D Systems’ technology transfer & consulting services can help academic and research institutes take the most from 3D Systems metal additive manufacturing solutions.
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Direct Metal Printing Design Guide
Design, test and produce metal parts with 3D printing that are simply not possible with standard manufacturing. Create lightweight, high-strength structures and deliver new capabilities. Read the Metal Printing Design Guide to gain invaluable insight.
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Key Determinants of Repeatable High Quality in Metal AM
Get insight into how engineering specialists develop metal AM equipment to deliver the highest value to customers worldwide, as well as why not all metal AM printers are created equal. Knowing what to look for is the first step to finding the right machine.
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NoSupports Metal Printing
Discover the function of support structures in metal printing, the advantages and strategies for reducing or eliminating support structures and how to apply NoSupports strategies to a metal printed part with enclosed features.
NoSupports enables metal powder-bed printing without support structures.
Powered by 3DXpert software, NoSupports expands the design envelope, accelerates design cycles, and unlocks new applications.
Want to learn more about our metal 3D printing bundles?
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Need More Brain Power?
Our Application Innovation Group (AIG) is ready to support your team with research and development projects. The AIG can also help with material selection and applying design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) principles to complete your research project on time and on budget.