SLS FEATURES

Production Worthy Parts
What makes SLS so user friendly is that it allows parts to include geometries so complex that they couldn’t be made any other way. This includes complete assemblies and multiple piece parts. Further, their advanced durability and resistancy to stringent fuels and chemicals and increased heat temperatures gives them a broad-reaching platform for manned and unmanned products. Products such as fuel tanks, intake manifolds, and cold air ducting are ideal candidates for the technology, and are currently flying on some of the most recognized platforms today.

Production SLS Aerospace Experience
In 2007, Directed MFG became the first and is still the only provider that has successfully run commercial-grade, FR-106 Nylon, Nylon 11, and Duraform EX in the latest large tray, dual-laser SLS system. By offering these and other notable production SLS aerospace materials on all sintered-based manufacturing equipment, you can rest assure that we have the knowledge to build to the material specification you require.

Material Selection
A variety of commercial-grade, FR-rated materials are at your disposal using the SLS process. The latest material, FR-106, allows customers to utilize a material that will pass 60-second vertical burn tests. Other materials will pass burn tests at 15 or 50 seconds. Beyond FR-rated materials, Directed MFG offers the largest range of materials in the industry, including PA2210, HST, and Carbon Filled Nylon.

Weight Reduction
In addition to costs and manufacturing savings as well as broader design freedom using SLS versus traditional methods, there is also the weight factor. Parts traditionally designed to be made out of even the lightest weight alloys are no match for nylon-based SLS parts. And SLS parts allow engineers to incorporate many two or multi-piece designs into one single component, achieving up to a 30% savings in weight reduction.

Quality Control
The SLS process is machine based therefore it requires perfected scaling, machine maintenance, material inspection, and overall dedicated management to ensure reliable repeatability. Directed MFG’s AS9100B Quality Management System assures that build materials and processes are consistent on each and every cycle. During each run, we build a series of vertical and horizontal tensile bars, which are an integral measurement to prove the success of the latest set of parts. Our expert aerospace project engineers have a combined 10+ years of AS9100B standards, and will support each phase of the program.