Why Choose Barber-Nichols?
We don’t just print “best-effort” parts – we design, analyze, and optimize to print parts that meet your requirements, offering:
- Comprehensive understanding of application requirements
- Informed selection of candidate components for additive manufacturing
- Help build your business case comparing conventional 5-axis milling vs. investment casting vs. 3D printing
- Exhaustive material property database of additively manufactured materials with results from over 1,000 samples, including high-temperature, fatigue, and creep behavior of:
- Inconel 718
- Inconel 625
- Haynes 282
- 316 Stainless Steel
- 17-4 Stainless Steel
- Monel K500
- AlSi10Mg
- Full structural, thermal, electromagnetic, and CFD analysis
- In-house DMLS additive manufacturing capacity and parameter development
- World-class machine shop and advanced electrochemical machining (ECM) and polishing