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Additive Manufacturing

Through our new state-of-the-art Additive manufacturing facility, we are helping customers develop better products for real-world applications.

From design assessment and validation, through to post production finishing, we can reduce costs, drive greater efficiencies, minimise risk and open new areas of growth.

We have invested in world leading technologies, our people and our processes to bring the whole additive manufacturing technology process under one roof.

GOM Atos Bluelight Scanner at Smithstown
GOM Atos Bluelight Scanner at Smithstown

End-to-End Solution

  • Design assessment and optimisation
  • Prototyping
  • Printing
  • Quality Assurance
  • Post Processing Techniques

We Bring Your Ideas To Life

Taking a collaborative approach, we help you resolve the challenges you face. With the flexibility to test and validate a products design before production, we bring your ideas to life and open up new possibilities.

At Smithstown Additive, we create complex designs with quality and precision and deliver faster, more affordable results.

We work with industry leaders like Trumpf, Carbon and GOM and many more. Check out our advanced technical equipment below

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Metal Additive

Trumpf TruPrint 2000

  • Build volume (cylinder): Ø200 mm x 200 mm Height
  • Maximum laser power: 300 W
  • Beam diameter: 55 μm
  • Layer thickness: 20 -100 μm
  • Shielding gas: Nitrogen, argon
  • Inert and closed powder cycle
  • Powder preparation station
  • Supply of powder in shielded gas
  • Powder Bed Monitoring – Monitoring of the powder layer by layer
Trumpf 3D Printing

Polymer Additive

Carbon M2 Printer

  • Build volume 189mm x 118 mm x 326mm
  • Resolution xy,z 75µm, 100μm
  • Layer thickness Layer less isotropic parts
  • Best in Class Materials
  • Superior Surface Finish
  • Fine Features
Carbon DLS 3D Printing

AM Software Capabilities

Siemens NX AM Fixed-Plane Advanced

This is a manufacturing authoring application for fixed plane AM. It provides build tray setup, basic and advanced support geometry types. It provides the build processor framework, which supports Trumpf build processors. It also provides 3MF and STL file-based export of the build tray.

Topology Optimisation

Topology Optimization provides the ability to create a geometrically optimised structures that fit within a specified design space while meeting the various performance, material and manufacturing requirements.

Siemens NX Lattice Structures

The Siemens NX Lattice Structures Design add-on provides the ability to create various types of lattice structures typically used in additive manufacturing to optimize weight and material while maintaining or even improving structural integrity.

Simcenter 3D Additive Manufacturing

Simcenter 3D Additive Manufacturing simulates the additive manufacturing process for Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The setup from a part in the built tray including support structures is used as a basis. The user selects the parts to simulate, defines printing process parameters (material, number of parts, layer slicing, laser parameters, etc) and runs the simulation. The result is the temperature distribution and distortion of the part.
A compensated geometry can be generated and be resimulated.

Inspection Equipment

Zeiss O-Inspect-Multi sensor technology

  • Measuring Volume 500 x 400 x 300mm³
  • Length measurement error: in 2D 1,7µm+L/250 µm in 3D 1,9µm+L/250 µm
  • Zeiss Vast XXT provides quick and precise 3D tactile measurements
  • Zeiss zoom lens provides a large distortion free field of view for measuring results with excellent accuracy and significant reduction in measuring time

GOM Atos Q

  • Measuring Volume 270 x 200mm²
  • Points per Scan 2 x 8 Million
  • Rotating Table 350mm
  • Delivers fully traceable measurement results
  • ATOSQ captures quality information quickly and with a high degree of detail
  • GOM inspection software for shape and dimension analysis

Heat Treatment

TAV H4S Vacuum Furnace

400 width x 400 height x 600 length

Loading Flexibility

This furnace type enables quick and easy loading of different volumes giving the flexibility for various production or R&D applications. The stated operating vacuum is 10-4/10-5 mbar.

Convection & Vacuum Heating

The forced gas convection in the first phase of the thermal cycle improves uniformity at low temperatures facilitating irradiance and improving the heating speed in the middle of massive loads. Max operating temp = 1250 deg C

Multi-Cooling Directions

Gas quenching (pressure 9.5bar max) is a critical part of the heat treating process in order to ensure metallurgical and mechanical transformation without exceeding the specified distortional tolerances. In hinged door furnaces operator can easily drive the gas flow where required.

TAV Furnace at Smithstown Additive

Post-Processing

80,000 sq-ft packed with cutting edge machinery, allowing us to offer you the latest in advanced manufacturing methods for post processing of additive manufactured parts. Some of our capabilities include:

  • Laser Cutting
  • 5 Axis Machine Centres
  • 3 Axis Machine Centres
  • Mill / Turning
  • Surface Grinding
  • OD / ID Grinding
  • Jig Grinding
  • Spark EDM
  • Wire EDM
  • Laser mark and Pad Printing Equipment
  • Surface Finishing
  • Passivation and Cleaning
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5 Axis Milling at Smithstown Light Engineering

Our Locations


Shannon Site 1
Smithstown Light Engineering, Bay H1A Smithstown Industrial Estate, Shannon, County Clare, V14 W594 Ireland.
Get Directions 353 (0)61 362111 info[@]sle.ie
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Shannon Site 2
Smithstown Light Engineering, East Park, Shannon, County Clare, V14 NW92 Ireland.
Get Directions 353 (0)61 362111 info[@]sle.ie
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Poland Site
Smithstown Polska, Kapitałowa 3, 35-213 Rzeszów, Poland.
Get Directions +48 17 881 11 30 info[@]smithstown.pl
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Smithstown Light Engineering. Bay H1A Smithstown Industrial Estate, Shannon, County Clare, V14 W594, Ireland
+353 (0) 61 362 111
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