November/December 2022 Issue

November/December

November 2022

Digital Edition
Aircraft Engine MRO: How Additive Manufacturing Plus Robotic Finishing Will Expand Capacity for Blade Repair
Cover Story

Aircraft Engine MRO: How Additive Manufacturing Plus Robotic Finishing Will Expand Capacity for Blade Repair

AM offers the chance to bring fast, automated processing to individualized, part-by-part restoration of turbomachinery. A cell developed by Acme Manufacturing and Optomec is able to automatically repair 85,000 unique aircraft engine blades per year.

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Features

Featured articles from the November/December 2022 issue of Additive Manufacturing

Aluminum Gets Its Own Additive Manufacturing Process

Aluminum 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.

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To Scale Additive Manufacturing, Separate Design and Production
Supply Chain

To Scale Additive Manufacturing, Separate Design and Production

Spokbee’s online marketplace is designed to ease the launch and sale of customizable, 3D printed products. Its flexibility comes from cloud-based CAD and a distributed network of service bureaus for production.

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Additive Brings Changes, Even if the Wrench Stays the Same
Tooling

Additive Brings Changes, Even if the Wrench Stays the Same

The argument that begins with what additive cannot do is probably right, and misses a great deal.

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How Hybrid Tooling — Part 3D Printed, Part Metal Shell — Accelerates Product Development and Sustainability for PepsiCo
Metal

How Hybrid Tooling — Part 3D Printed, Part Metal Shell — Accelerates Product Development and Sustainability for PepsiCo

The consumer products giant used to wait weeks and spend thousands on each iteration of a prototype blow mold. Now, new blow molds are available in days and cost just a few hundred dollars.

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Multimaterial 3D Printing with Conventional Powder Metallurgy
Sand

Multimaterial 3D Printing with Conventional Powder Metallurgy

Unbound sand serves as temporary, reusable molds for metal powders in Grid Logic’s 3D printing process.  

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Casting With Complexity: How Casting Plus 3D Printing Combine the Strengths of Both
Ceramic

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.

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MT Community Reconnects at IMTS 2022
IMTS

MT Community Reconnects at IMTS 2022

We’re back, better and implementing digital technology.

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Airtech International
Airtech International Inc.
Airtech International
Airtech International Inc.