Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25

The Matsuura LUMEX Series from Matsuura Machinery USA, Inc. is a powder bed metal additive manufacturing (AM) platform with subtractive capability. The series’ Avance-25 metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine relies on one-machine, one-process manufacturing of complex molds and parts by fusing metal laser sintering (3D SLS) technology with high-speed milling (HSM) technology. The machine enables production of complicated parts through total manufacturing by digital engineering using 3D data. The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 predominantly serves the high-value, high-accuracy mold and die market. The machine is capable of achieving high accuracy in part fabrication because the metal powders are melted and sintered with a laser, while the surfaces are precisely milled at high speeds. Moldmakers can incorporate 3D cooling channels into molds in the single setup, thereby increasing cooling efficiency and enabling high-cycle injection molding with improved quality and precision. The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 is capable of producing differentiated, original parts with internal structures and that the machine is capable of quick-turn production of custom parts, whether prototypes or small, production-run parts. The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 is capable of processing parts up to 256 mm x 256 mm x 185 mm with an option of processing 256 mm × 256 mm × 300 mm. Matsuura’s combination of additive and subtractive technologies enables the production of parts and component geometries in a method that has never been possible or imagined. Often referred to as a “one machine, one process” system, the Matsuura Lumex series permits production of the most complex and challenging parts through total manufacturing by digital engineering using 3-D data. “The use of AM technology and hybrid AM in particular, requires the part/mold designer to re-evaluate all past practices especially as they relate to utilizing creative geometries, such as hollow structures, that were not possible before.