The KamAZ engine plant in Naberezhnye Chelny has purchased two 3D printers that manufacture parts using the fused deposition modeling method. The equipment will reduce the time for equipment repair and reduce costs, the press service of PJSC KAMAZ reported.
Olga Brelyakova, Deputy Chief Engineer of the plant, explained that equipment repair is often delayed due to delays in the supply of spare parts. A 3D printer solves this problem.
Printing spare parts and components for operated equipment, machines and mechanisms allows you to manufacture a part from scratch in just a few days, if you have the original or a 3D model.
A 3D printer can print parts that have been discontinued. It is also used in the development of prototypes.
How a 3D printer works
A plastic filament is fed through an extruder onto a moving platform. The product is printed layer by layer from the bottom up. The 3D printer reproduces a copy of the computer model with high accuracy.
Currently, specialists at the KamAZ engine plant are mastering the technology of photopolymer printing of 3D parts. The layer thickness is 35-50 microns. This technology can be used to create small parts, such as coils for sensors.
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