3D & Additive Manufacturing
Faster Post-Processing for 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing
Reduce labor, speed up production, improve part consistency, and remove support material faster with ultrasonic cleaning systems built for additive manufacturing workflows.
Ultrasonic Systems for 3D Printing Post-Processing
Omegasonics ultrasonic cleaning systems help additive manufacturers remove support material, clean complex geometries, reduce manual labor, and improve finished part quality. Whether you are processing prototypes, production parts, HP Multi Jet Fusion parts, SLS parts, SLA parts, or metal additive components, ultrasonic technology helps make post-processing faster and more consistent.
Eliminate Bottlenecks in 3D Printing Post-Processing
3D printing, also known as rapid prototyping or additive manufacturing, takes a three-dimensional CAD design and builds the component layer by layer. Depending on the process, printed parts may be made from ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, PCABS, metal, or other advanced materials.
While additive manufacturing has made production faster and more flexible, post-processing can still slow everything down. Support removal, residue cleaning, dyeing, finishing preparation, and cleaning intricate internal channels can require significant labor when done manually or with traditional heated tank systems.
Omegasonics ultrasonic technology helps solve that problem by making post-processing faster, cleaner, and more repeatable.
Why Additive Manufacturers Choose Ultrasonics
- Remove support material faster and more consistently.
- Reduce hand cleaning, scraping, cutting, and manual rework.
- Clean complex geometries, internal channels, and hard-to-reach areas.
- Improve production flow and reduce post-processing bottlenecks.
- Lower labor costs while increasing throughput.
- Deliver finished parts to customers faster.
Spotlight: HP1818 3D Printing Dyeing Tank
The HP1818 3D Printing Dyeing Tank is designed for fast, consistent dyeing of digitally manufactured parts, including parts produced on HP Multi Jet Fusion systems. This twenty-gallon system helps dye parts faster, improve color consistency, reduce dye material usage, and lower labor costs compared to traditional boiler dyeing methods.
The unit uses a high-velocity circulation system to move heated dye material through printed parts, helping reach complex surfaces and hard-to-access areas with more uniform results.
- Fast, consistent dyeing for printed parts.
- High-velocity circulation for improved coverage.
- Reduced dye material usage.
- Lower labor requirements compared to manual or boiler methods.
Precise and Swift Preparation Is Possible
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing in Valencia, California, one of the largest providers of additive manufacturing, 3D printing, rapid prototyping, tooling, and injection molding services in North America, needed a faster way to prepare printed parts. Their team previously removed support material manually or used heated circulating washers, which could take up to 24 hours for larger parts.
After seeing an Omegasonics demonstration, the company ordered its first ultrasonic unit within a week. The results helped them reduce labor, improve turnaround time, and free employees for other revenue-generating work.
- ROI achieved in less than four months.
- Three full-time workers reassigned from cleaning to other revenue-generating activities.
- Parts delivered to clients up to 24 hours faster.
“It used to take a full day to manually remove support material from some 3D parts. Now we just put the parts into the ultrasonic cleaner and do something else while they’re being cleaned. After three hours, we have nice, clean parts.”
– Armen Boyajyan, Product Finishing Manager, Stratasys Direct Manufacturing
The Future of Prototype Manufacturing Can Get Here Faster
Omegasonics ultrasonic systems help additive manufacturers simplify post-processing, reduce manual labor, and improve production consistency across a wide range of printed parts and materials.
- Gently removes support structure materials from ABS, polycarbonate, Nylon 12, PCABS, and other materials.
- Provides thorough cleaning for detailed and intricate parts.
- Helps reduce dependency on manual cleaning.
- Offers a simple, repeatable process for production teams.
- Can reduce labor costs and increase throughput.
- Supports faster turnaround for prototype and production parts.
Watch Ultrasonic Cleaning in Action
Learn how ultrasonic cleaning provides fast, consistent post-processing for removing support material from 3D printed parts.
Read the Case Study
See how a leading additive manufacturing provider improved production speed, reduced labor, and achieved ROI with ultrasonic cleaning.
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