Shop System™

The world’s first metal binder jetting system designed to bring metal 3D printing to machine shops. In addition to the turnkey standard system, Desktop Metal also offers the Shop System™+ and Shop System™ Pro packages for added flexibility, functionality, and value. The Shop System Forust Edition is also available for wood.

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    Easy to use & operate

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    Unparalleled productivity

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    Best in class print quality

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    Packages for every user

System Overview

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The Shop System™ introduces high quality binder jetting to an entirely new market of machine shops. Shops can now cost effectively 3D print end use metal parts with unparalleled speed and productivity.

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Easy to use

Easy to use & 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 3D printing systems at a fraction of the cost.¹

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Affordable turnkey solution

Affordable turnkey solution

The Shop System™ contains all the 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.

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Easy Sintering with Live Sinter™

Live Sinter

Take the guesswork out of sintering printed parts. Live Sinter™ tackles the decades-old problem of part shrinkage and distortion through predictive counter-deformation. The software simulates the complex forces parts experience during sintering and automatically adjusts the geometries that, once printed, will sinter to the original, intended design specifications

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Simplified post-processing

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 3D printing systems and instead achieve customer-ready, near-net-shape parts right out of the furnace.

Optimized powders & parameters

Optimized powders & parameters

Get started quickly with a turnkey, end-to-end 3D printing solution. The Shop System™ features Desktop Metal-engineered powders and processing parameters, optimized to deliver exceptional part quality and ensure part-to-part repeatability.

Easy to use

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Unparalleled Productivity

Unparalleled Productivity

Use 3D printing to amplify your shop’s output. Effortlessly print end-use metal parts with the quality, surface finish and tolerances required to co-exist with machining.

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10x the speed

10x the speed

With a high-speed, single-pass print engine, the Shop System™ produces high-quality metal parts at up to 10x the speed of laser powder bed fusion systems⁴—meaning you can 3D print up to hundreds or thousands of metal parts per day.⁵

Print a build per shift

Print a build per shift

Average cycle times of 6-12 hours enable a new build every shift.² With the ability to 3D print tens to hundreds of near-net shape parts each day, you can reserve machinist hours for refining critical features.

Flexible batch jobs

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.

Unparalleled Productivity

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Superior print quality

Superior print quality

Print customer-ready, high-resolution parts with incredibly fine feature detail. Achieve surface finishes as low as 4µm Ra out of the furnace. The Shop System™ produces dense, solid parts, no debind or infill required.

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High-resolution printing

High-resolution printing

The Shop System™ features the highest resolution single-pass binder jetting system on 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 3D printing.³

Adaptive print engine

Adaptive print engine

Users don’t have to sacrifice feature detail or resolution for speed. Employing a 1.2 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

5x print redundancy

To avoid jet-outs and print issues the Shop System™ features 70,000-plus nozzles spread across five rows. The printhead features 25% higher nozzle redundancy than comparable 3D printing systems, resulting in enhanced print quality and reliability.³

Superior print quality

Flexible manufacturing

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The Shop System™ is designed to seamlessly integrate additive manufacturing into your shop’s workflow to improve productivity across any range of manufacturing scenarios.

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    Mixed-volume production

    Produce parts with different geometries simultaneously without the need for multiple setups.
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    Batch production

    Cost effectively 3D print low-volume batches of complex parts due to elimination of tooling.
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    Mid-volume production

    Produce hundreds of near-net-shape parts every day with dramatically reduced labor costs and expanded geometric flexibility.
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Mixed-volume production

How it works

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The Shop System™ is an end-to-end, single-pass binder jetting solution delivering high-resolution 3D printed parts at a fraction of the time and cost.

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    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.

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    Depowder

    Once an entire build is complete and has been crosslinked in the drying oven, 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.

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    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.

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Part Gallery

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Shop System™ applications span a variety of industries including manufacturing, tooling, automotive, consumer, electronics, and oil & gas.

  • Clipper Blade

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    This part is a clipper blade used in an electric hair trimmer.

    Clipper Blade

    • Size (mm) 36 x 35 x 3.5
      Cost per part ($) 5.74
      Parts per build 684
      Weekly throughput 4,788

    • Manufacturing this clipper blade would traditionally require expensive tooling for production via stamping or metal injection molding. Mass producing on the Shop System eliminates tooling costs and drastically reduces manufacturing lead time.

      Furthermore, additive manufacturing enables mass customization - allowing real-time adjustments to the part.

  • Down Hole Tool Slip

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    This part provides a frictional hold between a packer and a pre-existing pipe during oil extraction

    Down Hole Tool Slip

    • Size (mm) 57 x 23 x 82
      Cost per part ($) 56.31
      Parts per build 26
      Weekly throughput 205

    • This part is a consumable and is lost after pumping is complete, so keeping the price and lead time low are essential. The Shop System allows this part to be manufactured with an accelerated lead time and at lower cost than traditional manufacturing. The Shop system also allows the part design to be changed for different pumping scenarios.

  • Killacycle Coupling

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    This part is a taper lock coupling designed for a high-end, custom motorcycle.

    Killacycle Coupling

    • Size (mm) 70 x 70 x 32
      Cost per part ($) 86.94
      Parts per build 15
      Weekly throughput 137

    • The Killacycle is an electrically-powered motorcycle built for drag racing. Using the Shop System, engineers were able to design for function rather than for the manufacturing method, allowing them to use a tapered design that would be difficult to manufacture via traditional methods.

      The Shop system allowed for a greatly accelerated manufacturing lead time, allowing the team to rapidly iterate on the part.

  • Bulb Nozzle

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    This part is a custom nozzle for use in chemical processing.

    Bulb Nozzle

    • Size (mm) 38 x 38 x 46
      Cost per part ($) 29.12
      Parts per build 27
      Weekly throughput 319

    • Traditional manufacturing of this part would require casting followed by extensive secondary machining on a 5 axis CNC. Because only a few hundred of this nozzle needed to be manufactured, it was a great fit for the Shop System.

      By printing, the entire order of nozzles could be produced on the Shop System in less than a week with only one secondary thread-tapping operation required.

  • Clutch Plate

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    This clutch plate connects an electric motor to the crankshaft to start a motorcycle.

    Clutch Plate

    • Size (mm) 80 x 80 x 15
      Cost per part ($) 49.57
      Parts per build 29
      Weekly throughput 200

    • Machining this clutch plate would require multiple setups and multiple machining operations. By printing the part, only critical dimensions need to be machined, saving machinist labor, CNC machine time and reducing part cost.

  • Sensor Holder

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    This part is used to hold multiple sensors while measurements are taken in a running machine.

    Sensor Holder

    • Size (mm) 37 x 23 x 18
      Cost per part ($) 7.80
      Parts per build 186
      Weekly throughput 1,490

    • The intricate geometry of this sensor holder make the part an ideal candidate for the Shop system. The part was printed with an extreme reduction in both manufacturing lead time and part cost.

      Printing on the Shop System also allows for manufacturing flexibility - when the design needs to be modified to incorporate different sensors, engineers can simply send a revised file to the printer.

  • Bearing Housing

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    This housing is used to hold pressed-fit bearings in place in a machine.

    Bearing Housing

    • Size (mm) 73 x 65 x 30
      Cost per part ($) 72.89
      Parts per build 24
      Weekly throughput 192

    • This part needed to be produced quickly out of steel. Using the Shop System, the required parts were printed in just 4 days and were ready for assembly in less than a week, requiring almost no operator labor.

      Printing on the Shop System also dramatically reduced manufacturing lead time compared to traditional manufacturing methods.

  • Fuel Swirler

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    This swirler is used to push the diesel fuel mix into the burner.

    Fuel Swirler

    • Size (mm) 30 x 30 x 10
      Cost per part ($) 8.22
      Parts per build 299
      Weekly throughput 1,496

    • Swirlers are an essential component of burners; small changes to the geometry can have drastic effects on burner performance, fuel efficiency, power output, etc.

      Printing on the Shop System allowed for the part to be produced with no tooling, allowing for the printed geometry to be changed easily to adapt for different burners and fuel mixes. Printing also significantly shortened the manufacturing lead time and lowered the part cost.

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Applications by Industry

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Explore applications for 3D printing across a range of industries.

  • Automotive

    For automotive manufacturers, 3D printing opens new opportunities for rapid prototyping, creating parts with more complexity than ever before, identifying opportunities for assembly consolidation and exploring new business models centered around on-demand production.

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  • Consumer goods

    Consumer Goods

    Manufacturers of consumer goods can use 3D printing for rapid prototyping and testing of new designs for both functionality and market feedback, and as a flexible manufacturing line for low-volume and regionally-targeted production that allows greater design freedom for product customization.

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  • Education

    By investing in 3D printing, educational institutions provide students the tools to bring their work to life, help them build important career skills and enable them to act as additive manufacturing champions when they enter the workforce.

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  • Machine Design

    Using 3D printing, machine designers can print and test multiple part variations, create geometry that cannot be machined, consolidate large assemblies into fewer parts and reduce warehousing costs by printing custom parts on demand.

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  • Heavy Industry

    Heavy industry firms can use metal 3D printing to create highly-customized components from hard-to-machine materials, keep per-part costs low for custom, low-volume parts, and enable the creation of new designs with greater geometric complexity.

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  • Manufacturing Tooling

    For companies that produce manufacturing tooling, 3D printing can be an invaluable resource, allowing them to quickly and inexpensively produce complex, custom tooling and easily replace tools when needed, reducing downtime on manufacturing lines.

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1. Compared to single-laser, mid-range Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) systems. Based on list price on 11.14.2019 of comparable laser-based systems. Comparison dependent on Shop System configuration (4L, 8L, 12L, or 16L ). May require additional furnace capacity if printing 24/7 at high packing.

2. Based on variables such as part size, part quantity, and layer thickness.

3. Based on published specifications for comparable metal binder jet systems as of November 14, 2019.

4. Based on published speeds of single-laser, mid-range laser powder bed fusion systems as of August 25, 2020.

5. Management Estimates as of December 7th, 2020.

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