2000 people for the rapid manufacturing

For two years, 2000 people have visited this blog and I thank you for it.
You can see the first news here :
http://cladprocess.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

You can take a look at the sites:
www.easyclad.com
www.irepa-laser.com
to have some news on the CLAD process and see the industrial solutions proposed for rapid manufacturing and repairing of mechanical parts.

EASYCLAD Systems

This is the new link about news and information on the CLAD process.

www.easyclad.com

Some news

The CLAD system

An other achievement of the CLAD process.
Owing to the POWERCLAD software, a large range of items can be easily processed from CAD file (here from IGES file). The fully equipped CLAD system (200 W fiber laser, high performance cladding nozzle, powder feeding device,CNC workstation ...) allows the manufacturing of this part without tools.


A stainless steel duct

For massive parts manufacturing, repairing/modification of large objects, a macro-nozzle and a very high power laser system can be used.


Cladding of valve seats

The POWERCLAD software

In order to produce mechanical parts, the CLAD process is associated with the POWERCLAD software for manufacturing parts directly from digital datas.
Thus it is very easy to obtain the tool path generation from CAD file.
In the video below, an example can be seen.

A butterfly

This is a video about the manufacturing of a butterfly sample shape on a 5 axis cnc workstation

Rapid manufacturing samples

With the CLAD process, we can find many manufacturing methods :

* Manufacturing of the whole part

Picture : L shaped part (Cp-Ti)


Picture : A small blade

* Manufacturing by adding shapes on machined parts

On the picture above, we can see tubes which were deposited on a flange in order to reduce the processing cost and material losses.