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Revolutionizing The High-Precision Manufacturing Space

From electronic components to medical implants, there’s a growing demand for microscale parts worldwide. However, traditional manufacturing methods often struggle to do the job, as molding, machining, and stamping become more difficult and more expensive as the end product gets smaller. Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) provides a unique solution.

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Our Capabilities

MICROFLUIDICS

MICROFLUIDIC CHIP

  • Tolerance=±0.025mm;
  • Part Size: 15mm x35mm x6.2mm
  • Integrated forming
  • Complex internal channels
  • Minimum flow path of 400µm
  • Resolution: 10μm
ELECTRONICS

CHIP ARRAY SOCKET

  • Tolerance=±0.025mm;
  • Mirror finish, sharp edges, heat resistant
  • 2100 micro holes with a diameter of .35mm and spacing of 50µm
  • Resolution: 10μm
ELECTRONICS

ELECTRONIC CONNECTOR

  • Tolerance=±0.025mm;
  • Part Size: 10.83mm ×4.33mm x2.9mm
  • 140um slots and walls
  • Resolution: 10μm
Medical Devices

Endoscope Shell

  • Tolerance=±0.025mm;
  • Part Size: 9.8mm x 9.8mm x 13.8mm
  • Tube diameter = 1.2mm, length = 4mm, minimum wall thickness = 65 um
  • Several types of complex structures are included
  • Resolution: 10μm

Applications

High-precision 3D printing for personal care and consumer products

High-precision 3D printing is revolutionizing the world of personal care and consumer products, offering unparalleled benefits for product designers and manufacturers who require high-precision and tight tolerances for products such as razors, hearing aids and personal electronics.

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Our Products

Customer Story

3D Printing an Innovative Suturing Device for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Minimally invasive surgery offers patients reduced recovery times, better outcomes, and fewer complications. Suturing is one of the fundamental duties of surgeons, and yet there is not an instrument available that enables their performance on the scale necessary for minimally invasive. Learn how Sutrue used high precision 3D printing to create an innovative new suturing device for minimally invasive surgery.

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Customer Story

High Precision 3D Printing at Georgia Tech's Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology

Learn about some of the cutting-edge research using high precision 3D printing coming out of the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

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The quality and accuracy of BMF PµSL parts is very unique, and truly mimic expensive micro molded parts, and now we can have parts ready for test within 1-2 days rather than 1-2 months, as well as reducing the huge costs associated with tooling manufacture and reworking as the new products evolve. We can also explore designs previously out of reach due to manufacturing limitations. Our main focus is to lift our prototyping capabilities to the highest possible level, both in quality and speed. BMF will help us accomplish that.

– Sally van der Most, DSS Manager, Sonion NL

We chose BMF’s microArch 3D Printer due to its ability to replicate critical micro features. Their unique Projection Micro Stereolithography (PµSL) technology prints 3D parts with ultra-high resolution and accuracy, which is key to our business. This is the first 3D printer we’ve encountered that can print micro-precision parts, with the dimensional accuracy and precision that our customers require at this stage of product development. We have put the BMF parts through the same rigorous CT scanning inspection process of our micro molded components and were amazed that dimensionally the parts fell within the tolerances required. Our customers have been equally amazed.

– Donna Bibber, VP of Business Development, Isometric Micro Molding, Inc.

We have been looking for some time for a machine that can reliably produce parts in this size range as we were at the limits of other machines or would have to sink cost into other manufacturing methods- typical micro injection molding or other micro machining activity that can be expensive and prohibitive to R&D iterations. The ability to rapidly produce these types of parts combined with an open ecosystem is unmatched.

– Sam Wilson, STORM Lab UK, Institute of Robotics and Autonomous Sensing, University of Leeds

As one of BMF’s first customers, we’ve been excited by the performance of their high-resolution 3D printing solution. Most recently we have been evaluating BMF’s first-generation microArch P150, and it has delivered accuracy that is not attainable by any other system we have used within our additive lab. With its high part quality and throughput suitable for production, as well as the ability to print a wider variety of materials, the microArch S350 has become a critical tool in printing high-resolution connectors,” said Xiaoming Luo, Principal 3D Printing Engineer, Aerospace, Defense, and Marine (AD&M) at TE Connectivity. “We feel the microArch S350 gives TE the ability to produce very high resolution connectors for our customers.

– Xiaoming Luo, Principal 3D Printing Engineer, Aerospace, Defense, and Marine (AD&M) at TE Connectivity