Every component an Overby facility needs — structural elements, precision parts, replacement hardware — is fabricated directly from ISRU feedstock at the point of use. Advanced Manufacturing is the division that turns refined metal, UHPC, and composite stock into finished, deployable hardware without a single part waiting on a supply run.
Microgravity manufacturing bays produce components that are difficult or impossible to fabricate on Earth — perfect crystal growth without convection currents, spherical casting with no gravity-driven distortion, and continuous fibre layup without sag. Advanced Manufacturing platforms exploit the absence of gravity rather than working around it.
Every fabrication line accepts feedstock directly from ISRU output streams — metal ingot, UHPC aggregate, basalt fibre, and refined polymer — with no intermediate processing step required.
Refined metal ingot, UHPC aggregate, basalt fibre stock, and polymer pellets arrive directly from ISRU processing nodes, sized and sorted for the specific fabrication line requesting them.
Every part on the platform is produced from a versioned digital blueprint, queued and prioritised automatically based on which facility, vehicle, or expansion module is requesting it.
Metal components are produced via directed energy deposition additive manufacturing; UHPC and composite elements are cast or layed up in zero-g moulds; polymer components are injection moulded from Titan-sourced feedstock.
Structural and load-bearing components pass through precision machining and inspection cells, with dimensional and material integrity verification logged against the original digital blueprint before release.
Finished components are staged for builder droid pickup, direct habitat installation, or Starlifter II cargo loading — whichever destination the fabrication request specified.
Standardised docking interfaces and power rails let manufacturing capacity scale incrementally as demand grows, rather than requiring a new bespoke facility design for every expansion.
Zero-g moulding cells produce spherical components, perfect crystal boules, and fibre-wound pressure vessels impossible to cast without distortion under full gravity.
Metal additive manufacturing cells build structural components layer by layer directly from powdered ISRU-refined metal feedstock, with no tooling changeover between part geometries.
Common docking rings, power distribution rails, and material transfer manifolds allow new fabrication modules to be added incrementally without redesigning the base platform.
Every producible component is published as an open, versioned blueprint, consistent with Overby's open-source engineering commitment and allowing any facility to fabricate any cataloged part.