Post on 24-Mar-2020
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Hot Stuff!How Powerdrop’s heated drum is enabling high
volume manufacturing
Ben Brebner, Archipelago Technology
Ben.Brebner@archipelagotechnology.com
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Who are Archipelago?
Taking inkjet in a new, exciting direction
Developing technologies that enable high volume manufacturing
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Digital Printing - Today
Smaller drops, greaterresolutions, higherspeeds
Printing functionalmaterials
A more diverse range of substrates
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But where next?
Inkjet is a key manufacturing technology
Inkjet struggles with
• particles
• viscosity
• aggressive fluids
Currently, depositing viscous materials is either expensivewasteful or damaging
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More Speed!
How do you increase the frequency of a jetting system?
•Short fluid path
•Rapid refill
•Decrease jetting event duration
•More nozzles
•Uncouple nozzle loading from jetting
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Hot Stuff
Continuous rotation
Fill
Eject
Heat
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Why go hot?
Not everything is liquid at room temperature!
Viscosity decreases with temperature
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Jetting the un-jet-able
• Powerdrop enables precise, high throughput and zero waste jetting of viscous materials
• Powerdrop is highly scalable
• Powerdrop is flexible
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Fluids up to 2000mPaS
Temperatures up to 200C
Particle sizes of 10s of μm
Tolerant of corrosive materials
Speeds in excess of 240m/min
Powerdrop is astoundingly flexible
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Scalable and Configurable
•Powerdrop can be configured to jet at multiple coating widths
•Powerdrop can deposit large quantities of fluids quickly
•Coating thicknesses can be tailored to application
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Powerdrop is enabling manufacturing
Coating furniture
Jetting primer for inkjet processes
Applying adhesive on manufacturing lines
Coating chocolate bars
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Three key take-aways
• Archipelago is building Powerdrop systems to solve real world manufacturing challenges
• Powerdrop enables printing of previously un-printablematerials
• The ability to deposit shaped adhesive patterns creates opportunities in product construction