DSH Technologies launches DSH Advantage for MIM and sinter-based metal AM
Debinding and sintering services provider DSH Technologies, based in Pineville, North Carolina, USA, has announced DSH Advantage, a membership programme designed to support metal parts manufacturers by offering structured expert guidance and troubleshooting, thereby improving yield and reducing production downtime.
Designed for industrial manufacturers, OEM captive parts makers, Metal Injection Molding (MIM) and sinter-based Additive Manufacturing producers, DSH Advantage combines advanced metallurgical controls, decades of experience, and access to laboratory services. The programme aims to enable parts makers to produce more, waste less, and scale effectively under expert supervision.
“DSH Advantage bakes metallurgical best practices into systematic workflows so teams can focus on scaling, not firefighting,” stated Bryan Sherman, Chief Metallurgist at DSH Technologies. “From troubleshooting to training, testing to toll services, the DSH Advantage is an intimate opportunity for parts makers to access our decades of expertise to pragmatically build, not guess or hope for better outcomes.”
The monthly membership programme is led by Sherman, who has more than twenty-five years of experience in captive parts manufacturing, research, furnace technologies, debinding, and recipe development and testing. His background includes furnace commissioning and optimisation, failure and root-cause analysis, and the design of testing programmes incorporating metallography, density measurement, hardness testing, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and dilatometry.
According to Sherman, manufacturers often face challenges when translating laboratory-developed recipes into repeatable production cycles, as well as controlling binder removal and furnace atmospheres. He noted that small deviations in feedstock, debinding profiles, or furnace atmosphere can contribute to yield loss, scrap, and production downtime.
DSH Advantage incorporates a data-centric approach to troubleshooting, drawing on process logs, sample history, TGA, dilatometry, and metallography to isolate variables through controlled experiments. Documentation forms a central part of the programme, with every trial, observation, and parameter change recorded and summarised in monthly performance reports to help teams track trends and decisions.
“DSH Advantage was built to solve the real, day-to-day challenges that MIM and sinter-based additive manufacturers face when moving from prototypes to production,” said Stefan Joens, President of DSH Technologies. “By marrying deep metallurgical expertise with powerful instrumentation and process, we’re helping customers make better parts faster, and protect their margins while doing it.”
The programme also emphasises knowledge transfer through hands-on training and education. According to Sherman, members learn to interpret process signatures, metallography, and test data, while implementing robust debind and sinter recipes. Scheduled sessions, on-call support, and monthly summaries are intended to reinforce knowledge transfer and help build capability within customer organisations.
In addition, members receive discounted access to DSH Technologies’ toll debind and sinter services for controlled troubleshooting, development, and production runs. The company stated that this can enable rapid validation of recipe changes and process trials when external processing is preferred.
According to the company, the programme is designed for rapid implementation. DSH Advantage integrates into metals operations and is technology agnostic with respect to powder, feedstock, molding, Additive Manufacturing, and furnace technologies.
DSH Advantage is available here.
