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Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) Service

Norck: Your Path to DMLS Precision and Innovation

Norck delivers expertly manufactured components using Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) for unmatched design freedom and complex geometries. We specialize in aerospace, defense, robotics, medical, industrial, and other sectors where high-performance, custom metal parts are essential.

Capabilities for DMLS Success:

  • State-of-the-Art DMLS Machines: High-powered lasers and precise control for creating intricate metal parts with exceptional accuracy.
  • Materials Expertise: Printing with a range of production-grade metals like stainless steels, titanium, aluminum, and tool steels.
  • In-House Design & Engineering: Guidance on optimizing designs for DMLS, leveraging its unique advantages, and ensuring manufacturability.
  • Post-Processing & Finishing: Heat treatments, surface finishing, machining, and assembly for complete part solutions, tailored to your specifications.

Norck's Engineering Edge: Pushing the Limits of Metal 3D Printing

  • Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM): Collaboration to create topologically optimized parts, lattice structures, and achieve geometries impossible with traditional manufacturing.
  • Simulation & Analysis: Predicting thermal stresses, optimizing support structures, and preventing build failures for cost-effective production.
  • Rigorous Quality Control: In-process monitoring, material analysis, and dimensional inspection for consistent, high-performance parts.

Why Choose Norck for DMLS?

  • Unmatched Design Freedom: Produce complex internal channels, highly organic shapes, and integrated assemblies previously unachievable.
  • Rapid Prototyping & Production: Accelerate your development cycle with fast iterations and bridge directly to low-volume production.
  • Performance Without Compromise: DMLS parts offer excellent mechanical properties ideal for demanding applications across industries.
  • Innovation Partner: We help you unlock the full potential of DMLS, from concept to final part.

What is direct metal laser sintering?

Direct metal laser sintering is an additive manufacturing process in which particles from a bed of metallic powder are fused to produce parts and assemblies. It helps turn designs into scaled prototypes as close to the designed model. It is mainly used in the earliest stages of product development and can be used in conceptual models, functional prototypes, tooling, electronics, jewelry, and medical industries.

3D printing requires 3D CAD models to print a part or assembly. The 3D models can be made using parametric CAD software such as Solidworks and CATIA V5, or Subdivision modeling software such as 3DS and Blender.

Advanced 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

What are the advantages & disadvantages of using direct metal laser sintering?

Direct metal laser sintering is used over other 3D printing processes due to:

   •   Fast process
   •  Batch printing
   •  No need for a supporting structure
   •  Rigid result
   •  Accurate features
   •  Printing precious materials (gold, Platinium, silver)

Although there are disadvantages to using direct metal laser sintering:

   •  Cooling time
   •  Post-processing
   •  No recycling

How is it fabricated?

In Direct metal laser sintering, the 3D printer slices the 3D model into several cross sections and prints them layer by layer. Each layer of powder material is deposited upon a print bed by a material depositing unit. Then a laser beam is generated and oriented by a rotating mirror to fuse powder particles.

Once the 3D printed model is finished, it should cool down before being removed from the platform. Post-processing might be required to remove any excess material and burrs or to smooth surfaces.

Direct Metal Laser Sintering

Most used materials:

   •   Titanium 
   • 
  Steel
   •    Stainless steel
   •    Aluminum
   •    Nicke 
   • 
  Cobalt
   •    Copper
   •   Inconel
   •   Gold
   •   Platinum
   •   Silver

Parts and assemblies should follow specific design rules to be printed correctly. Norck offers engineering services that will help you confirm your design for 3D printing.

Norck: Your Data-Driven Partner for On-Demand Manufacturing Excellence

Norck is a technology-powered manufacturing leader specializing in CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding. Our intelligent, data-driven approach ensures exceptional quality, optimized costs, and seamless supply chain management for companies worldwide.

Key Services:

Why Choose Norck?

  • AI-Powered Manufacturing: Data and AI optimize our processes for superior quality, minimized costs, and supply chain visibility
  • Vast Production Capacity: Our extensive partner network in Europe and the US guarantees both low and high-volume production.
  • End-to-End Expertise: Our team of engineers, data scientists, and product developers ensure design for manufacturability and unparalleled service
  • Single-Source Solution: Norck streamlines your supply chain, reduces overhead, enhances purchasing power, and delivers just-in-time results.

Experience the Norck difference. Get a quote fast for your manufacturing needs today!

OUR SERVICES

WHAT NORCK DOES BEST

WHY NORCK?

Get Access to Huge Production Capacity

Besides Norck's own production capacity, Norck has access to hundreds of top quality CNC machining, sheet metal, 3D printing, injection molding, and urethane casting providers across the United States, Germany, and Europe.

Creating Supply Chain Resilience

Working with Norck effectively reduces your risks against supply chain shocks, unforeseen delays, price fluctuations, and quality issues, thus increasing your company’s resilience in its outsourcing and supply chain.

Innovation at Work

Besides being an artificial intelligence augmented digital manufacturing company, we also develop extremely innovative manufacturing tools, fixtures and of course software applications such as RapidCAD, a highly intuitive and innovative web based CAD application.

Artificial Intelligence Augmented

Norck gathers and uses thousands of data points to augment its engineers with a state of the art artificial intelligent system for better design and manufacturability.

Green Driven

Norck encourages its partners to be carbon-neutral, and gives carbon neutral compliant suppliers priority over non-compliants.

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LEADING ON DEMAND DIGITAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY, AND EUROPE.