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Perfect Tooling with Additive Manufacturing

Giving you fast, perfectly fitting and highly customized tooling and general industrial parts. The use of Additive Manufacturing to produce tools and tooling components improves accuracy and reduces lead times as well as costs. Additionally, it improves part functionality and provides design freedom to customize products.

AM can also be a game-changer for general industrial applications, offering highly-heat resistant and lighter weight components, by using materials like titanium and nickel superalloys.

The challenge of complex functional integration

Designing integrated systems requires new manufacturing technologies beyond today’s conventional possibilities. Today’s components must perform increasingly complex functions requiring close integration of new materials, mechanical and electronic capabilities.

AM allows the production and delivery of components that meet and exceed those needs.

The challenge of low quantity and highly differentiated manufacturing

Mass manufacturing methods are unable to deliver today’s variable short-term production with high customization requirements.

AM allows complex component manufacturing in a flexible and lean supply chain

Why choose Oerlikon AM as your partner?

The Oerlikon AM Team includes specialists with strong backgrounds in tooling and general industry, we’ve been making tools for over 20 years.

With them we provide:

  • AM design for higher functional integration within components such as manifolds, cooling ducts, molds with conformal cooling, semiconductor equipment and heat exchangers
  • AM design for customized or complex products for increasingly targeted applications
  • The necessary knowledge, expertise and technology under one roof to meet the challenge of single source manufacturing, with this it is easier to maintain a logistical oversight for component manufacturing
  • Expertise in materials – from metal alloys to plastics and ceramics
  • New powder development – tailored and custom alloys designed and atomized in-house for tooling and component manufacturing
  • R&D facilities - supporting your own product development

Tooling / General Industry AM Applications

Tooling / General Industry AM Applications

What Can Additive Manufacturing Do for Tooling?

The use of Additive Manufacturing to produce tools and tooling components reduces lead times and costs. Additionally, it improves part functionality and provides design freedom to customize products.

AM can also be a game-changer for general industrial applications, offering high-heat resistant and lighter weight components—even using materials like titanium and nickel superalloys.

Tooling / General Industry AM Materials

  • High-strength stainless steels
  • Maraging steels
  • Cobalt-based alloys

Contact us to explore with us which AM solutions we offer for your tooling and general industry needs.

Case Study: Oerlikon Barmag AM Heating Sleeve

Challenge
  • Provide a printed heating/cooling sleeve with optimized heat transfer for tempering a metering gearpump
  • Reach competitive costs for small quantities of parts, down to one. 
  • Develop product that is lighter, easier to assemble
Solution
  • 1 day workshop to explore Design for AM with the engineers from Barmag
  • Candidate parts identified where complex geometry, integral cooling could be realized
  • Oerlikon designed, printed, and finished parts for customer and test fully in-house
Impact
  • 2 components reduced into 1
  • Weight reduced component
  • Reduced cost vs. legacy design
  • 3.5 months from concept to product in the hands of first customer

Case Study: Oerlikon Barmag AM Heating Plate

Challenge
  • Provide a printed heating/cooling plate with optimized heat transfer for tempering a polymer gearpump
  • Reach competitive costs for small quantities of parts, down to one. 
Solution
  • 1 day workshop to explore Design for AM with the engineers from Barmag
  • Candidate parts identified where complex geometry, integral cooling could be realized
  • Oerlikon designed, printed, and finished parts for customer and test fully in-house
Impact
  • Weight reduced component
  • Reduced cost vs. legacy design
  • 3.5 months from concept to product in the hands of first customer
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