After an impressive debut at Formnext 2022, where Rivelin Robotics was the winner of the Start-up Challenge, the company announces its return to Formnext 2023, November 7-10 in Frankfurt, Germany. In the meantime, Rivelin has successfully deepened its relationships with industrial customers seeking sustainable post-processing and finishing solutions for metal AM production applications.
At the upcoming Formnext, Rivelin will present news about business collaborations. Companies such as GKN Aerospace and Wall Colmonoy have already invested in Rivelin’s NetShape solution for metal AM post-processing. Both companies see the need to ensure consistent part properties when using metal AM as a true production technology and to automate the removal of support structures in the AM process.
Robert Bush, CEO at Rivelin says, “Embedding quality, reliability and repeatability into the post-processing of metal parts across numerous industrial sectors is where NetShape is having its biggest impact. At Formnext, we will be demonstrating our ground-breaking NetShape Robots, which provide an automated solution for metal support removal and targeted finishing to meet the standards of mission critical industries. Driven by our powerful NetShape control software, both machine learning and traditional deterministic control theory are used to optimise the quality and repeatability of support removal and finishing. The result is an automated support removal solution that reduces defects and operational costs, and eliminates human risk and variability.”
What makes Rivelin’s NetShape technology special is its combination of machine learning, advanced sensors and proprietary algorithms. This combination captures the manual precision of humans and combines it with the repeatability and traceability of industrial robots. This transforms skilled manual tasks into digital processes that can be performed repeatedly and with minimal supervision.
Bush continues, “Formnext 2023 will not just give us the opportunity to demonstrate how our post-processing and finishing technology works, but will also give us the opportunity to discuss with attendees what it is that drives us at Rivelin, which is our profound focus on delivering a sustainable manufacturing future for businesses, their people, and the planet. We passionately believe that digital innovation and progress are not a threat to manual jobs in manufacturing; instead they offer a new paradigm focused on humans shaping ideas and technology crafting them — in this way promoting safety, efficiency, and sustainability.”
Rivelin believes that automated platforms like NetShape will be critical to enabling sustainable, local manufacturing worldwide. By focusing on local production, companies can increase efficiency, responsiveness and resilience while reducing costs and emissions and supporting regional economies.
Visitors can meet Rivelin Robotics at booth E41 in Hall 12 at Formnext 2023.
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