Velo3D, Inc. has introduced Kratos SRE, a subsidiary of Kratos Protection & Safety Options, has acquired a Velo3D Sapphire printer to help Kratos’s expertise growth and talent to quickly handle protection trade prospects’ necessities.
The Velo3D metallic additive manufacturing resolution can be operated by Kratos SRE in its speedy prototyping and manufacturing heart, the place will probably be used to speed up the vertical integration of crucial provide chains in sure areas of the Kratos group.
“It’s essential to our workforce to leverage new, superior manufacturing applied sciences so we are able to keep our management within the protection trade and higher serve our prospects,” says Michael Johns, Kratos SRE senior vice chairman. “With Velo3D’s resolution, we count on to have the ability to additional unlock high-speed manufacturing capabilities that scale back lead occasions and decrease prices of the elements we develop. As well as, it is going to enable us to quickly innovate and speed up design cycles for elements utilized in current platforms.”
Kratos SRE has been a long-time consumer of Velo3D’s metallic additive manufacturing resolution, leveraging the expertise by way of the Velo3D Contract Producer Community. Kratos SRE focuses on designing and constructing elements, programs and constructions for excessive environments. It additionally oversees the characterization of additive manufactured metals (CAMM) program, which analyzes additive supplies to grasp course of variation in specimens and checks designs forward of high-volume manufacturing.
Information gathered by way of CAMM is aggregated right into a supplies database of key course of variations, which is used to raised perceive the properties of additively manufactured elements and determine new use instances for the expertise.
“Ahead-thinking protection firms like Kratos are more and more adopting additive manufacturing expertise as a result of it might allow steady design enhancements and unlock extremely scalable manufacturing to satisfy fluctuating calls for,” sauys Brad Kreger, Velo3D CEO and govt vice chairman of Operations. “The great thing about our resolution is that firms can start by leveraging the Velo3D Contract Producer Community after which buy their very own printer as their demand for elements will increase. As soon as their wants exceed the throughput functionality of a single machine, it’s easy to scale manufacturing to different printers, together with our large-format Sapphire XC.”
As a U.S.-based additive-manufacturing expertise supplier, Velo3D’s totally built-in resolution is broadly utilized by American protection firms that present elements to branches of the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD). All Velo3D printers are designed and inbuilt America and not too long ago achieved the very best stage of safety compliance the DoD affords—Inexperienced-level Safety Technical Implementation Information (STIG) compliance. The certification permits Velo3D printers to connect with the DoD’s Secret Web Protocol Router Community (SIPRNet), making it simpler for organizations and firms to amass the printers to be used in DoD-related tasks.
Sources: Press supplies acquired from the corporate and extra info gleaned from the corporate’s web site.