SLM®500

Unleash Efficiency with SLM®500: High-Performance Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Maximize productivity and performance with the SLM®500. Engineered for serial production, this versatile system offers unparalleled speed, precision, and scalability. Whether you're producing complex prototypes or large-scale components, the SLM®500 delivers tailored solutions for industries seeking to elevate their manufacturing capabilities and stay ahead of the competition.

Boost Your Production Efficiency by 90%
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The SLM®500 sets a new standard in additive manufacturing efficiency by offering the capability to integrate lasers independently or in parallel. This innovative feature dramatically increases build rates, allowing you to achieve up to a 90% improvement over twin laser configurations. With parallel laser integration, you can accelerate your production processes, reduce lead times, and meet even the most demanding manufacturing schedules with ease.

Enhanced Safety and Lower Operational Costs
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The safety and cost-effectiveness of your operations are paramount, and the SLM®500 is engineered with this in mind. Its closed-loop powder handling solution ensures operator safety and minimizes operational costs by separating the machine operator and powder. This innovative system includes an automated powder sieve and supply, maintaining a controlled environment throughout the printing process. With enhanced safety measures and efficient powder management, the SLM®500 delivers peace of mind and cost savings for your business.

Exchangeable Build Cylinder
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Designed for serial production, the SLM®500 features an exchangeable build cylinder that enables the shortest possible fire-to-fire times. This innovative design reduces downtimes of the machine to less than an hour turn-around, ensuring maximum productivity and efficiency in your manufacturing operations. With rapid cylinder exchange, you can seamlessly transition between production runs, optimize workflow continuity, and keep your production line running smoothly. Experience unmatched productivity and uptime with the SLM®500.

Geared for Serial Production
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The SLM®500 is engineered specifically for serial production, offering advanced capabilities to meet the demands of high-volume manufacturing. With its precision engineering and innovative features, including parallel laser integration, closed-loop powder handling, and exchangeable build cylinder, the SLM®500 enables you to leverage the full potential of selective laser melting technology for serial production applications. Experience seamless scalability, unmatched efficiency, and superior quality with the SLM®500.

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Unlock the full potential of your manufacturing with SLM®500
Accelerated Production

The SLM®500 integrates lasers independently or in parallel, boosting build rates by up to 90% compared to twin laser configurations, ensuring rapid production turnaround.

Enhanced Safety

Featuring a wear-resistant closed-loop powder handling strategy, the SLM®500 separates machine operators from powder, incorporating an automated powder sieve and supply to ensure operator safety and lower operational costs.

Minimal Downtime

With an exchangeable build cylinder designed for serial production, the SLM®500 enables the shortest fire-to-fire times, reducing machine downtimes to a less than an hour turn-around and maximizing productivity.

Streamlined Workflow

Advanced software compatibility, and intuitive interface design on the SLM®500 simplify operation and enhance user experience, ensuring a seamless workflow from design to production.

Cost Efficiency

The SLM®500 minimizes material wastage through precise laser control and powder handling mechanisms, reducing production costs and maximizing the efficiency of metal additive manufacturing. Plus, our Permanent Filter Module arrives as standard.

Versatile Applications

With its large build volume, the SLM®500 accommodates a wide range of part sizes and geometries, offering versatility for diverse manufacturing needs.

Precision Engineering

Utilizing high-precision laser technology and advanced thermal management systems, the SLM®500 ensures exceptional part accuracy and surface finish, meeting the most stringent quality standards.

Scalability

Designed for scalability, the SLM®500 allows seamless integration into existing production lines and facilitates the expansion of additive manufacturing capabilities to meet growing demand.

Customization Potential

The SLM®500 offers design freedom with its ability to produce complex geometries and lightweight structures, empowering manufacturers to innovate and customize products with ease.

Reliability Assurance

With robust construction and rigorous quality control measures, the SLM®500 delivers consistent performance and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted production and peace of mind for operators.

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ST Engineering Impeller
Material: Aheadd® CP1
Build Time: 10h 4m 34s
Bugatti® Active Heat Shield
Material: AlSi10Mg
Layer Thickness: 60µm
Build Time: 4h 4m per Unit
Steering Knuckle
Material: AlSi10Mg
Layer Thickness: 60µm
Build Time: 2d 7h 23m
Hydraulic Manifold
Material: 326L
Layer Thickness: 60µm
Build Time: 97h
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We are delighted to be working with Nikon SLM Solutions and using their quad-laser machines. Rolls-Royce continues to develop our additive layer manufacturing capability to ensure we are at the forefront of advanced manufacturing. We knew that transferring our expertise and knowledge gained from single laser machines to multi-laser platforms would require a close working relationship and Nikon SLM Solutions have provided this.

Neil Mantle

Rolls-Royce, Head of Additive Layer Manufacturing

A high OEE, a resilient machine design, and our good quality processes are the keys for AM-production.

Dr Christina Bluemel

Robert Bosch GmbH, Manager NuP1 3DP Manufacturing & Processing Center

Additive layer manufacturing enables the delivery of complex high-performing assemblies which cannot be manufactured using conventional techniques. For example, these combustor tiles include cooling holes which turn the air through 180 degrees maximising efficiency whilst reducing emissions. This repeat order reflects the close and successful relationship between the Rolls-Royce and Nikon SLM teams.

Richard Mellor

Rolls-Royce, Chief Manufacturing Engineer

Proof that additively produced metal components can cope with extreme strength, stiffness and temperature requirements at speeds of over 375 km/h with a braking force of 1.35g and brake disc temperatures up to 1,100°C.

Frank Götzke

Bugatti, Head of New Technologies

With the advanced material knowledge of Sandvik and the parameter freedom of the Nikon SLM® machine, we plan to develop top-quality parameters targeting the specific needs of our high-performance automotive and racing customers.

Mauro Antolotti

BEAMIT, Chairman and Founder

The hollow geometry of the objects cannot be produced with conventional methods, and the 3D printing in combination with subsequent specialized processes leads to a unique innovative product.

Thor Bramsen

Danish Technological Institute (DTI), Industrialization Manager

Nikon SLM Solutions’ latest technology will help Honeywell improve productivity while also meeting our material requirements for qualification...We intend to qualify these parameter sets through repeatability testing in our production environment, including build and post-processing to generate an efficient process with a set of material property data.

Dr. Sören Wiener

Honeywell, Senior Director Technology & Advanced Operations

We went through an extensive selection process over a number of months to make sure we had the optimum technology for our new venture... and are working hard to have all our ancillary support equipment in place to allow us to start printing components.

Conrad Kao

Howco, Director of Additive Manufacturing

We are a company that wouldn't exist without additive manufacturing. The SLM®500 gives us exactly what we need, for example, to manufacture antennas used on space missions. The atomic oxygen in the atmosphere virtually sandblasts the parts. They also must withstand high heat loads, and extreme temperature cycling, on other planets. The Nikon SLM® parts are not only lightweight, but they can also manage harsh conditions and are particularly robust with excellent performance.

Janos Opra

Optisys, CEO

The open architecture system of the Nikon SLM® machine provides huge advantages like high flexibility and parameter sets can be customized. With this open access strategy and the great support of Nikon SLM Solutions, we step forward to achieving our next goals.

Dr. Sören Wiener

Honeywell, Senior Director Technology & Advanced Operations

3D printing technology has given us a lot of leeway to experiment creatively with design, while at the same time being able to optimize a product’s function...The collaboration with DTI has led us to develop and produce gears in a radically new design form that is only possible with 3D printing.

Carsten Ebbesen

CeramicSpeed, R&D Manager

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