Interview with Fabrisonic on Embedding Sensors in 3D Printed Metal Parts http://bit.ly/2Hxe2WO Fabrisonic has a very unique 3D printing technology. The company’s UAM (Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing) process can take layers of metal tapes and through ultrasonically welding them and then machining them create 3D objects. Ultrasonic vibration has been used as a welding technology before but the firm has commercialized it for our market now. UAM lets you do very exciting things such as joining different metals, work with relatively inexpensive feedstock and embed sensors in metal parts. Now Fabrisonic is lowering the cost to get started with their technology by offering an entry-level machine, the SonicLayer 1200 for $200,000. Often times Fabrisonic can seem kind of a Don Quichote of 3D printing pioneering an own path that is very different than other companies all working on the same technologies. Can the firm go it alone? Or will it succumb to a VHS wars kind of pressure where Video 2000 lost to the wider adopted VHS? Will it find a niche such as the one it is trying to carve out in embedded sensors? Or will it find broader use but for heat exchangers or exotic blends of metals? We sat down with Fabrisonic’s brilliant Mark Norfolk to find out. How is Fabrisonic doing?
What are some examples of things that people are making with Fabrisonic?
What are some of the advantages of your technology?
Why is 3D printing heat exchangers so promising?
With electric cars will there be possible demand in that arena for your technology?
What work has been done on microchannel heat sinks in heat exchangers?
Can you make gradient/functionally gradient parts with Fabrisonic?
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