The Heated Chamber: the element of the Roboze Automate ecosystem that combines engineering with materials science

Materials science and applied engineering: the heated chamber

The competitiveness of the market and changes in global demand have led the realities of the manufacturing sector to seek new production solutions capable of improving and optimizing the performance of produced parts.

Roboze looked to increase the efficiency of the production flow and the quality of the components made, to differentiate and make the whole process more streamlined and dynamic.

The Roboze Automate technological ecosystem is capable of being fully integrated into the production workflow for additive manufacturing of replacing metal parts.

The system responds to the need to obtain consistent quality parts through 3D printing allowed by key elements designed to guarantee results on a par with conventional production methods. Among these, the heated chamber developed by the Roboze team is a solution that combines materials science with engineering applied to the design of machine tools.

The work environment reaches a homogeneous temperature of 180 °C in just under 2 hours to accelerate the productivity and efficiency of the entire process. The collector positioned on the bottom of the structure sucks in the air introduced, heats it and reintroduces it into the chamber through the holes on the walls, producing a homogeneous thermal flow, which avoids shielding phenomena, allowing the production of parts not subject to thermal shock (phenomenon that can occur when the difference between the extrusion temperature and that of the print volume is very different).

The thermoregulators allow constant temperature control throughout the printing process in order to optimize and manage the chemical structure of high-performance polymers.

For example, this is the case for PEEK, which in the absence of a heated chamber system designed in an uncontrolled and uniform way, could generate a low crystallinity rate and an uncontrollable shrinkage of the material, with consequent anisotropy and low tolerances.

When dealing with the customized production of parts with super polymers and composites, a mere heating of the working environment is not enough without applying it to the very nature of these extraordinary materials.

The heated chamber is one of the most important elements within Roboze Automate as it can make the difference between a part that meets the designed production requirements and a simply printed part.

Contact one of our consultants to learn more: info@roboze.com