In Mpingwe Malawi, southeastern Africa - Qubix is designing and building Industrial 3D printers, robotics and CNC technologies to automate manufacturing process in order to accelerate E-Mobility, Medical and Space technologies. Today (30^th August,2022), Qubix has unveiled their high performance Q500 series of Industrial 3D printers (design) that will mainly be used for Qubix’s high tech 3D printing farm to accelerate industrial hardware manufacturing.

Qubix Robotics is a digital manufacturing startup company headquartered in Blantyre, Malawi. Qubix mission is to develop eco-friendly smart factories to manufacture Electric vehicles, Medical and Space hardware products using additive manufacturing as a primary manufacturing solution. Q500 Industrial 3D printers will be used in Qubix additive manufacturing farm. The Q500s with the help of Atlantis (Qubix server computer) will be used for cloud manufacturing to allow companies, Institutions and individuals to design and 3D print their physical components/objects and also monitoring their work progress remotely in real time through their mobile devices.

Q500 3D printers which are currently under development will be available for market in mid-2023. Qubix has decided to manufacture their own technology locally for manufacturing sustainability, independency, affordability and high-efficiency production.

Qubix is developing a smart factory by designing and building their own next gen technologies to achieve sustainable future for industrialization development in Africa.

What features and benefits to expect from Qubix first generation 3D printers, Q500s?

There are two 3D printers that are being developed under Qubix; Q500HP which is high performance and Q500S which is an industrial standard build.  

·         High speed performance: Using high performance ARM Cortex + SMT32 microchips and advanced driving mechanism in our 3D printers especially Q500hp which doesn’t use cartesian driving system will be 10x faster than most 3D printers currently on market

·         Agile manufacturing: What used to take months now will be matter of hours, additive manufacturing eliminates long supply chain. We will be able to print components directly from raw materials sourced locally, no shipping cost and time delays

·         High volume print: Q500 series will be able to print life size components in a single print to avoid micro assembling so to increase durability of components

·         Cloud manufacturing (IoT): Qubix 3D printing farm will give our clients/partners an access to upload their desired design, print, stop/pause or resume and also monitoring their work progress from anywhere in the world through internet

·         Energy consumption: Additive manufacturing uses less energy than traditional methods of manufacturing. Q500 has equipped with couple of sensors to monitor and save energy

·         Eco friendly: 3D printing reduces GHG emission unlike tradition production line and it also reduces the production waste from manufacturing process

·         Cost efficiency: Save a lot money by printing spare parts/components inhouse. 

·         Material variation: Q500s will be able to print all types of polymers including high temperature polymers like Nylon without any problem.

Ø  Print polymers at above 500 ⁰C

Ø  Print 2 types of polymers or colors at once

Specifications:

·         Power off resume: Be able to resume /continues printing when power is back without losing your work

·         Automatic shutdown: Saving power by shutting down machines when the printing is done

·         Dual color and material 3D printing: print different color and material at once

·         Dual spool: In addition to color and materials, this feature will allow the machine to automatically switch materials when one feeder is empty.

·         Filament detection: Detecting when filament has cut off or spool is empty

·         Temperature controlled chamber: The fully temperature and humidity-controlled chamber allows users to print high temperature industrial polymers/materials 

·         50% transparent view: 50% of the frame is covered by transparent glass panel to allow the users to see and monitor the work progress.

·         Multiple interfaces: Through the use of inbuild LCD or mobile device, users will have options to operate or control the machine according to their preferences

As Qubix is getting closer to their smart factory goal, the locally build Industrial 3D printers will give them a high chance to eliminate the cost of shipping, production line and it will give them freedom for design alteration, agile prototyping and speedup manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in Malawi.

Qubix is designing different digital manufacturing technologies to accelerate automobility and industrialization in Africa.

For more information, visit: www.qubixrobotics .com