Additive Solutions | Lincoln Electric

LINCOLN ELECTRIC ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS MAKES BIG PARTS IN LESS TIME

Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions gives your business a big advantage over castings, forgings and other traditional manufacturing processes with the fast delivery of new and replacement parts and tooling.

With the largest 3D metal printing capacity in North America, we can expedite production for large industrial parts for your application and industry.

COMMERCIAL CONSIDERATIONS

Reduce Turn-Around Time

Reduce prototype and part lead times from months to weeks, especially compared to castings/forgings

Reduce Material Waste

Use less material compared to subtractive processes

Reduce Inventory Costs

Print on demand and eliminate supply chain bottlenecks

Expand Design Freedom

Reduce weight and mix multiple materials

Part Consolidation

Drive down the number of parts to assemble

Produce Functional Prototypes

Quickly test actual use in real environments

Reduce Operations

Fewer operations, fewer handoffs

PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Materials

We can 3D print a variety of industrial metals including combinations of materials

Size

Open new possibilities: Large format metal additive
parts are measured in feet or meters, not mere inches

Complexity

Tackle part geometries and features that are challenging or not possible for traditional casting or machining

Not your typical robotic programming

CAD to Path Planning

With large format wire-based metal additive manufacturing, the part is manipulated while depositing. Advanced software is critical to address complex path planning and coordinated motion between the robot and the positioner.

Explore Large format Wire-Based Printing

Accelerate your projects

Reduce Time to Market

Eliminate tooling bottlenecks, shorten delivery times on long lead projects, compress prototype design and test cycles.

Accelerate Your Projects

Your Complete Finished Part Provider

Save time, reduce direct and indirect costs and operate with greater efficiency
compared to traditional manufacturing operations.

Metal additive solutions have been limited to smaller-sized parts using metal powders.
While fast, customers have had to compromise on size, material waste and porosity limitations.
Wire-based metal additive technology eliminates those trade-offs
and delivers advantages over traditional manufacturing processes

CAD to Path Software

Proprietary SculptPrint™ software slices your CAD model, determines the ideal path for material deposition and incorporates optimized process parameters for each layer.

Flexible Automation

Lincoln Electric manufactures and integrates our additive systems, including the robotic cells and positioners, arc power sources with application-specific Waveform Control Technology®, wire feeders, feedback and control, and Industry 4.0 IoT-ready production monitoring.

Feedstock Manufacturer

Lincoln Electric also produces the additive feedstock material used to build your parts. These materials are produced to extremely tight chemical composition tolerances and feature controlled surface treatments, precision layer winding and appropriate bulk packaging for additive applications.

Additive + Post-Processing Capabilities

Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions will produce a finished part to your specifications, including a controlled additive build, machining and other operations required to deliver a complete assembly. Industry certifications include QC/QA, ISO 9001, Nadcap, and AS9100D. To learn more about our machining and assembly capabilities, visit:

Baker Industries

Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions is uniquely positioned in this space to bring the right experience and technologies to bear for your project, based on your material and application requirements. Using GMAW arc welding or laser hot-wire processes, we can tap into a deep well of welding deposition, equipment and automation knowledge to meet your needs. Every step is customized to deliver the material and design for your specific application. Every conversation is a collaboration between our team and yours. Every outcome is designed to meet your operational needs.

1 Step 1: Collaborate 2 Step 2: Quote 3 Step 3: Print/Process 4 Step 4: Deliver

Collaborate

Connecting Our Experts With Your Experts

Part Design
Materials
Functional Requirements
Additive Manufacturing Process

Value

Designing with additive in mind, we look for ways to reduce weight, increase strength, combine materials for best advantage, merge additive and subtractive processes and add functional processes not possible using traditional manufacturing methods. Our goal is to reduce part costs, improve lead times and enhance performance.

Quote

Preparation and Customer Review

Price
Schedule
Deliverables

Value

This is our opportunity to confirm for your team and ours what will be delivered, including a final check in on part design, build strategy, testing, prototyping and final processing

Print / Process

Turn-Key Part Fabrication

Prototype
Near-net Shape
Heat Treating and Other Processing
Machining
Part Finishing

Value

Parts are printed, monitored for bead height and positional stacking, inspected and moved to post processing as requested. Functional prototypes may require less processing, while low volume parts or field failure repair tasks may require finish machining.

Deliver

Receive Your Part in a Fraction of the Time

Final Inspection
Testing Available
Post-Project Evaluation

Value

Parts are drop-shipped to your destination from start to finish in a few days or weeks compared to several weeks or months for many traditional machining or casting operations.

Cut lead time from months to weeks

Get Our Whitepaper on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

In this report, we explain how technological advances in wire arc additive manufacturing are providing various industries with opportunities to speed up large-format metal prototyping and legacy part production at a high level of reliability and cost-effectiveness.

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Accelerate Your Projects With
Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions

MATERIALS WE USE

Steel

Low-Carbon (Mild) and High Strength Low-Alloy

Low Carbon Steel

High Strength Low-Alloy Steel

Stainless Steel

Austenitic, Martensitic and precipitation hardened alloys

316LSi Stainless Steel

410NiMo Stainless Steel

17-4 PH Stainless Steel

Invar

Nickel-Iron for low coefficient thermal expansion applications

Invar 36

Nickel Alloys

A variety of nickel alloys for extreme temperature and
corrosion environments

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ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS

Manufacturers specializing in parts made by these materials could benefit greatly from our additive service – which creates large-form metal part prototypes and replacements parts for you even faster.

This quick turnaround on prototypes and replacement parts will give you a competitive advantage over those using traditional manufacturing methods.