Carbon®, a Silicon Valley, California-based digital manufacturing company, showed the first digitally manufactured polymer parts in production for Ford Motor Company. The parts include Ford Focus HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Cooling) Lever Arm Service Parts, Ford F-150 Raptor Auxiliary Plugs for a niche market and Ford Mustang GT500 Electric Parking Brake Brackets. The companies jointly presented the applications at the Additive Manufacturing for Automotive Workshop at the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.
Carbon and Ford, which recently announced the opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan, have expanded their collaboration to design and produce several new digitally manufactured, end-use parts using Carbon’s printers, proprietary Digital Light Synthesis™ technology, and EPX (epoxy) 82 material. Carbon’s EPX 82 material passed Ford’s rigorous performance standards and withstood critical requirements such as interior weathering, short- and long-term heat exposures, UV stability, fluid and chemical resistance, flammability (ISO 3795) and fogging (SAEJ1756) for the selected applications. To learn more, visit www.carbon3d.com.
