Case Study: Lillbacka Powerco Oy achieves consistent additive surface finishing with PostProcess RADOR

Lillbacka Powerco Oy - Customer Case Study

Lillbacka Powerco Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of crimping machines with over 50 years of experience, faced significant challenges in its additive manufacturing workflow. Their manual, labor-intensive post-printing process for DMLS parts was time-consuming, created workflow bottlenecks, and resulted in inconsistent quality and part breakage. To overcome this, they turned to vendor PostProcess for a solution.

PostProcess implemented their automated RADOR surface finishing solution, which utilizes software-driven agitation to consistently achieve precise surface roughness. The RADOR predictably reduced the average roughness (Ra) of parts from 6.5µm to 1.6µm, a significant improvement over manual methods. This eliminated the need for a separate deburring step, reducing manual labor from over an hour per part to almost negligible time and cutting a potential 1-4 day delay from their production schedule, allowing Lillbacka to scale its operations efficiently.

Lillbacka Powerco Oy

Masi Tammela

Additive Manufacturing Manager