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How Machining Makes AM Successful for Innovative 3D Manufacturing
Connections between metal 3D printing and CNC machining serve the Indiana manufacturer in many ways. One connection is customer conversations that resemble a machining job shop. Here is a look at a small company that has advanced quickly to become a thriving additive manufacturing part producer.
Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
3D Systems Offers MJP 300W Printer, Wax Material for Advanced Jewelry Additive Manufacturing
The combination of the MJP 300W jewelry printer and VisiJet Wax Jewel Ruby enables jewelry designers to more efficiently achieve new designs with greater design freedom and improved surface finish.
Read MoreAmerica Makes Announces Winners for IMPACT Project Call
The project call focuses on additive manufacturing research related to casting and forging, metal powder sourcing and robotic AM process planning for continuous fiber-reinforced composite structures.
Read MoreIntrepid Automation: How Investment Casting Benefits From High Speed DLP
Vat polymerization 3D printing for investment casting patterns offers a way to deliver design freedom at production speed.
Read MoreIn Casting and Molding, AM Simplifies Conventional Manufacturing
In new ways, additive processes are streamlining and enabling metal casting and plastic injection molding.
Read MoreFoundry Lab: How Casting in a Day Will Improve the Design of Metal Parts (Includes Video)
The company’s digital casting process uses 3D printing, but the result is a cast part. By providing a casting faster than a foundry, the company says effective prototyping is now possible for cast parts, as well as bridge production.
Read MoreAMGTA Research Demonstrates Sustainable Benefits of Binder Jet 3D Printing
Research from the Yale School of the Environment shows substantial reduction in GHG over traditional casting methods.
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Southern Indiana’s Thriving AM Part Producer — What I Saw at Innovative 3D Manufacturing: AM Radio #49
Recorded just after the visit to the laser powder bed fusion contract manufacturer, here is a conversation exploring observations and impressions of this company and its metal 3D printing work.
Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
Looking to Secure the Supply Chain for Castings? Don't Overlook 3D Printed Sand Cores and Molds
Concerns about casting lead times and costs have many OEMs looking to 3D print parts directly in metal. But don’t overlook the advantages of 3D printed sand cores and molds applied for conventional metal casting, says Humtown leader.
Read MoreSeurat: Speed Is How AM Competes Against Machining, Casting, Forging
“We don’t ask for DFAM first,” says CEO. A new Boston-area additive manufacturing factory will deliver high-volume metal part production at unit costs beating conventional processes.
Read MoreIMPACT Project Call Worth $11.7M in Funding for Casting, Forging
The project call is for demonstrating productivity and yield benefits for casting and forging manufacturing via additive manufacturing technologies, execute techno-economic analysis for metal powder AM, and to bridge component sourcing gaps with AM parts for casting and forging applications.
Read MoreUltrasim 3D Lattice Engine Simplifies Lattice Selection, Generation
The solution is powered by Hyperganic and offers a wide array of lattice patterns, each of which has been tested and validated for different application groups.
Read MoreAM 101: What Is Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP)? (Includes Video)
Hot isostatic pressing has long been used for metal castings, but is now being applied as a valuable method for closing porosity in metal 3D printed parts.
Read MoreLockheed Martin, Sintavia Team Up to Advance Metal Additive Manufacturing
The collaboration is said to demonstrate Lockheed Martin’s commitment to the White House’s AM Forward initiative for expanding use of additive manufacturing and creating resilient supply chains.
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America Makes Announces IMPACT 2.0 Project Call Worth $6.6 Million in Funding
The deadline for the first set of project proposals is May 29.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
3D Printing Method for Complex Metal-Plastic Composite Structures
Researchers from Japan and Singapore have developed a new 3D printing technique to create precise patterns on the external and internal surfaces of 3D plastic structures.
Read MoreMassivit 3D Expands Systems, Materials Portfolio to Automate, Speed Up Composite Production
Formnext 2022: These additive manufacturing systems utilize the company’s Cast In Motion technology, which is said to enable direct printing of complex molds using high-performance casting materials.
Read MoreIs 3D Printing Competing with Casting? AM Radio #27B
On this episode of AM Radio, we discuss two examples of companies that are shortening supply chains by using 3D printing instead of casting.
Read MoreRecapping the Additive Manufacturing Conference 2022: AM Interacts With Conventional Processes: AM Radio #26B
On the AM Radio podcast, impressions of this year’s Additive Manufacturing Conference at IMTS. A notable element this year was attention to AM’s impact on processes such as casting and machining
Read MoreAluminum Gets Its Own Additive Manufacturing Process
Alloy Enterprises’ selective diffusion bonding process is specifically designed for high throughput production of aluminum parts, enabling additive manufacturing to compete with casting.
Read MoreOptimized Castings, Fast Turnarounds with Sand 3D Printing
IMTS 2022: ExOne’s S-Max Flex pairs industrial robots with an end effector printhead design that deposits binder into a 1,900 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm (74 × 39 × 39") telescoping build box that grows as the parts are built layer by layer.
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EOS Works With Phillips Federal, Austal USA to Develop CopperAlloy CuNi30 for US Navy Submarine Industrial Base
Using the copper-nickel alloy in combination with EOS’ platforms offers new design and production capabilities for U.S. Navy submarines, while also enabling the agency to limit global supply chain disruption because parts can be produced regionally, locally and on-demand.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
Casting With Complexity: How Casting Plus 3D Printing Combine the Strengths of Both
Aristo Cast is advancing a mode of part production in which casting makes the part, but 3D printing enables the geometry.
Read MoreQualification Today, Better Aircraft Tomorrow — Eaton’s Additive Manufacturing Strategy
The case for additive has been made, Eaton says. Now, the company is taking on qualification costs so it can convert aircraft parts made through casting to AM. The investment today will speed qualification of the 3D printed parts of the future, allowing design engineers to fully explore additive’s freedoms.
Read MoreRobot Deposition Makes Giant Industrial Mixer Blade: The Cool Parts Show Bonus
Wire arc additive manufacturing produces a large component formerly made through casting, and allows for redesign of its internal cooling geometry.
Read MoreAM 101: Additive Manufacturing Materials
In processes like machining, the material is a known quantity. A part starts as a block of material, or perhaps a forging or casting. Its form changes in the machining process, but its inherent material properties are already set. In additive manufacturing, however, the material properties are being established alongside the geometry of the part.
Read MoreMassivit 10,000 Additive Tooling System for Composites Manufacturing
Rapid + TCT 2022: The system utilizes the the company’s Cast In Motion technology, which is said to enable direct printing of complex molds using high-performance casting materials.
Read MoreDesktop Metal’s Robotic Additive Manufacturing System for Sand Printing
The ExOne S-Max Flex system use single-pass jetting technology to deliver 3D printing at high speeds for low-cost parts.
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