The Shop System is the world’s first metal binder jetting system designed specifically for machine shops—enabling shops to easily produce parts with exceptional surface finish and resolution at scale.
Easy to use and operate
Designed with the modern machine shop in mind, the Shop System is built to fit seamlessly into your workflow. Produce parts with superior surface finish and resolution versus laser-based systems at a fraction of the cost.
Affordable turnkey solution
A Complete Shop System
The Shop System contains all pieces of equipment your machine shop needs to begin binder jetting — from print through sintering. And with a range of build volume configurations (4L, 8L, 12L, and 16L), the Shop System is designed to scale to your shop’s throughput.
Simplified Post Processing
Parts on the Shop System print fully supported in their powder bed, and feature hand-removable sintering setters. Avoid hours of labor machining off support structures typical to laser-based systems and instead achieve customer-ready, near-net-shape parts right out of the furnace.
Optimized powders & parameters
Get started quickly with a turnkey, end-to-end solution. Shop System features Desktop Metal engineered powders and processing parameters, optimized to deliver exceptional part quality, and ensure part-to-part repeatability.
Unparalleled Productivity
Amplify your shop’s output. Effortlessly print end-use metal parts with with the quality, surface finish and tolerances required to co-exist with machining.
10x faster
With a high-speed, single-pass print engine, the Shop System produces high-quality metal parts up to 10x faster than laser powder bed fusion—producing up to 70kg of metal parts per day.
Print a build per shift
Average cycle times of 6-12 hours enable a new build every shift. Print tens to hundreds of near-net shape parts each day and reserve machinist hours for refining critical features.
Flexible Batch Jobs
The Shop System is a tooling-free manufacturing process. Change over to a new job at the press of a button and process multiple complex jobs without the need for custom setups.
Superior Print Quality
High-resolution printing
Print customer-ready, high-resolution parts with incredibly fine feature detail. Achieve surface finishes as low as 4µm Ra out of the furnace, and <0.1µm Ra with mass finishing. The Shop System produces fully dense, solid parts, no debind or infill required.
The Shop System features the highest resolution single-pass binder jetting system in the market. With 1600x1600 DPI native (33% higher resolution than comparable systems), and over 670M drops per second, the Shop System delivers high-speed, high-resolution printing.
Adaptive print engine
Users don’t have to sacrifice feature detail or resolution for speed. Employing a ~1 pL droplet size and automated drop multiplexing up to 6 pL, the Shop System achieves superior surface finish, bleed control and rich feature detail at high speed.
5x print redundancy
Avoid jet-outs and print issues with the Shop System’s five rows totaling over 70,000 nozzles. The printhead features 25% higher nozzle redundancy than the comparable systems, resulting in enhanced print quality and reliability.
How it works
The Shop System™ is an end-to-end, single-pass binder jetting solution delivering high-resolution parts at a fraction of the time and cost. Metal parts are created with the following 3 step process:
01 Print
For each layer, the printer spreads metal powder across the build bed, and precisely jets a binding agent to bond loose powder and define part geometry. Layer by layer, metal powder and binder is deposited until the entire build volume is packed with bound parts and surrounding loose powder.
02 Depowder
Once an entire build is complete, the build box is removed and placed in a powder station for bulk and fine depowdering — with the help of a hand-held air pick. Loose powder is removed from the parts and recovered via a built-in powder recycling system with powder sieving.
03 Sinter
Depowdered parts are placed onto trays in a shop-safe, high-throughput furnace for batch sintering. With an external gas hookup and temperatures reaching 1400ºC, the Shop System furnace is able to deliver quality and reliable sintering in a shop-friendly format.
Shop Printer
The Shop System printer features the highest resolution printhead on the market with over 70,000 nozzles jetting 1pL droplets at nearly 10 kHZ to achieve high resolution parts at a fraction of the cost and speed of laser-based systems.
Shop Powder Station
With easy access portholes, a hand-held air pick, built-in powder sieving and recycling, and a vacuum port for easy powder maintenance, the powder station provides closed-loop powder management and recycling.
Shop Furnace
System specifications
With production rates up to 70kg of metal parts per day, the Shop System™ produces parts up to 10x faster than laser powder bed fusion. Employing a ~1pL droplet size and automated drop multiplexing up to 6pL, the Shop System achieves superior surface finish, bleed control and rich feature detail at high speed. Review the specifications below:
Technology | Print technologies | Binder Jetting |
| Print direction | Unidirectional | |
Performance | Layer height | 40-100 μm |
| DPI | 1600 dpi 1 pL drop size | |
| Dimensional tolerance of parts | +/- 3.0% | |
| Binder jetting module | 70k nozzles 5x redundancy | |
| Printhead configuration | 1 easily replaceable printhead | |
External Dimensions | Printer | 199.4 x 76.2 x 162.6 cm 78.5 x 30 x 64 in |
| Powder station | 101.6 x 68.6 x 162.6 cm 40 x 27 x 64 in | |
| Drying oven | 66 x 62.2 x 90.2 cm 26 x 24.5 x 35.5 in | |
| Blender | 76.2 x 39.4 x 80 cm 30 x 15.5 x 31.5 in | |
| Powder kegs | Height : 280 mm Diameter : 250 mm Maximum Volume : 10.6 L | |
| Furnace | 138.0 x 75.4 x 161.8 cm 54.3 x 29.7 x 63.7 in | |
Build Envelopes | 4L | 35 x 22.2 x 5 cm 13.8 x 8.7 x 2 in |
| 8L | 35 x 22.2 x 10 cm 13.8 x 8.7 x 3.9 in | |
| 12L | 35 x 22.2 x 15 cm 13.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 in | |
| 16L | 35 x 22.2 x 20 cm 13.8 x 8.7 x 7.9 in | |
Power Requirements | Power requirements (excluding furnace and oven) | 110/220 V, 50/60 Hz |
| Power requirements (drying oven) | 220 V, 50/60 Hz | |
| Power requirements (furnace) | 08 - 220 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 30 A, 3-phase dedicated circuit 380 - 400 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 16 A, 3-phase dedicated circuit |
Shop System Example Parts
Shop System applications span a variety of industries including industrial equipment, tooling, automotive, consumer, high tech, and oil & gas.
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