Fabrisonic

Fabrisonic offers on-demand additive manufacturing services including designing of parts, serial production, and short-run part production, targeting aerospace and electronics applications. The company uses patented ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) technology, which harnesses ultrasonic vibrations to weld layers of metal foils. Through this approach, the metal does not require melting. After welding, CNC-machining (a traditional form of manufacturing) is used to form the required 3D shape. UAM technology relies on solid-state ultrasonic bonding (which doesn’t expose metals to high temperatures), helping maintain the microstructure of metals and enabling a range of material combinations to be printed in a single part. This technology also allows sensors to be embedded in the metal structures for health monitoring, process control, and IoT connections. Fabrisonic’s technology has been used by NASA to produce 3D-printed heat exchangers for spacecraft.