In 2016, Bowman established Bowman Additive Production, a specialized additive manufacturing division that provides industrial bearing users with customized bearing design, prototyping, testing, inspection, and production services. The application of 3D printing technology has enabled Bowan to enhance the ability to produce small batches of bearings quickly and to provide Bowan with more room to optimize the performance and longevity of some of its bearing products. To date, Bowman Additive Production is equipped with two additive manufacturing equipment, one is EOS's selective laser sintering equipment, the other is HP's multi-jet melting equipment (MJF), and Bowman uses nylon 11 as the printing material. The first product developed by Bowman using 3D printing technology is a plastic bearing cage. The application of 3D printing technology enables Bowman to produce plastic bearing cages without the need for injection molds. This not only enables Bowman to respond quickly to product design changes, but also enhances the competitiveness of fast-production small and medium-volume custom bearings. With 3D printing technology, Bowman has optimized the cage design and integrated many complex structures in the cage. 3D printing equipment can economically produce this complex design. When designing a 3D print cage, Bowman used an interlocking structure with the rolling elements holding each part of the cage together. The advantage of this design is that it gives more space around the circumference of the cage, so this holder can add 2-4 rolling elements compared to similar products on the market. This means that the bearing load can be distributed over a larger number of rolling bodies. According to Bowman, the 3D printed bearing cage with this design increases the load bearing capacity of the split bearing by 70% and the working life to 500%. Bowman can increase bearing load and life without changing the design of other components in the bearing. Monitor Pole,Steel Monitor Pole,Highway Monitor Pole,Monitor Light Pole YIXING FUTAO METAL STRUCTURAL UNIT CO.,LTD( YIXING HONGSHENGYUAN ELECTRIC POWER FACILITIES CO.,LTD.) , https://www.chinasteelpole.com
How do bearing manufacturers apply 3D printing technology in production?
Bowman International is a leading bearing design and manufacturer. In addition to producing conventional bearing products, Bowman also manufactures custom bearings.
Yixing Futao Metal Structural Unit Co. Ltd. is com manded of Jiangsu Futao Group.
It is located in the beach of scenic and rich Taihu Yixing with good transport service.
The company is well equipped with advanced manufacturing facilities.
We own a large-sized numerical control hydraulic pressure folding machine with once folding length 16,000mm and the thickness 2-25mm.
We also equipped with a series of numerical control conveyor systems of flattening, cutting, folding and auto-welding, we could manufacture all kinds of steel poles and steel towers.
Our main products: high & medium mast lighting, road lighting, power poles, sight lamps, courtyard lamps, lawn lamps, traffic signal poles, monitor poles, microwave communication poles, etc. Our manufacturing process has been ISO9001 certified and we were honored with the title of the AAA grade certificate of goodwill.
Presently 95% of our products are far exported to Europe, America, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, and have enjoyed great reputation from our customers.
So we know the demand of different countries and different customers.
We are greatly honored to invite you to visit our factory and cheerfully look forward to cooperating with you.