Genera’s industrial G2/F2 system streamlines all steps of the AM workflow

Founded in 2015, Genera is a Viennese startup that is developing comprehensive 3D printing solutions. During its development phase, the startup identified a key limitation users were facing during production. In fact, users were often left to themselves to manually coordinate the various steps of the additive manufacturing workflow, which was directly affecting repeatability. “All of us at Genera have been long time 3D printing users and therefore know the special needs and problems facing the industry,” explains CEO Klaus Stadlman.

Today, many industries are aware of the potential of 3D printing to shorten lead times, reduce the cost of prototyping, introduce more personalization in products, etc. However, on some fronts, such as for high volume production runs, 3D printing is not able to compete with conventional methods that deliver higher repeatability and quality.

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This is the reason why Genera developed and is launching its G2/F2 system: based on DLP technology, it offers a completely integrated process to enable the same quality as injection molding. Therefore, the G2/F2 is more than a DLP 3D printer. Printing, washing and curing are coordinated, documented and monitored at the same time in order to achieve outstanding part quality for low or high volume production runs (up to 1,000 parts). The Genera team decided to develop a Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology, which similarly to the well-known SLA process, uses a light source to harden a UV-sensitive resin layer after layer.