Phillips Machine Tools in association with Markforged India recently organized a two-day open-house at Pune and Bengaluru. On the first demo day, the team displayed state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment catering to various industries. The event received good response from the over 100 visiting companies at the event who witnessed the prowess of the equipment over two days
Earlier in 2021, Phillips Machine Tools had collaborated with Markforged India to come up with advanced manufacturing solutions catering to the metal and polymer industries. Strengthening their association, both the companies came together to organize an open-house event at Pune and Bengaluru.
Nikhil Modi, Global Product Marketing Manager at Phillips Corporation, commenting on the event, said, “The demo day is intended to project Markforged’s industrial-grade materials that enable engineers to make functional parts for manufacturing environments.”
“The Demo Days are targeted for the metal and polymer industries all over India, and the team will be displaying their state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment where all the machines will be put up on live display for the visitors,” added Nikhil.
While talking about the equipment at the event, Nikhil said, “The Pune Tech Center is hosting the Metal-X and Mark-2 additive manufacturing machines, while X7 and Marc-2 machines are on display in Bengaluru. The event is focused on catering to modern manufacturers to showcase how they can go from design to industrial parts at the touch of print.”
The team received a good response in both the cities as over 100 companies participated in the event and witnessed the latest additive manufacturing technology offered by Phillips Machine Tools and Markforged India over two days.
Talking to the Machine Maker team about the importance of additive manufacturing, Kritagya Kumar, Application Engineer, Philips Machine tools said, “3-D printing machines will help crunch the time for manufacturing any parts and these parts can be used readily as soon as they come out of the machines. This ability of the machines at the display will facilitate a significant cut in operational costs and will save time for the customer.”
Kritagya pointed out that additive manufacturing technology will be largely beneficial to the Indian aerospace, automobile, medical sectors. “The cost savings in these industries due to the application of additive manufacturing are significant, and the Indian manufacturing sector will be at a great advantage”, added Kritagya.
“Since the scope of the additive manufacturing is more inclined towards critical applications where cost constraints are inferior to the quality and efficiency parameters, additive manufacturing technology is bound to have an upper hand over the conventional methods”, he added.
Additive manufacturing technology is expected to provide multiple advantages when it comes to prototyping, testing, and small-scale production of any part. Additive manufacturing is not yet ready for large-scale production, but with rapid developments taking place in the industry, large-scale manufacturing of parts will be a reality soon.
