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Software

User-Friendly Mass Spectrometry Tool to Enable AM

The Massbox is a technology designed to simplify mass spectrometry by bypassing the need to send samples to the lab for characterization and testing purposes. Exum Instruments’ debut tool is suitable for AM as it can assist with quality assurance, material characterization and failure analysis.

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Supply Chain

The DOE-Funded Institute Working to Make Manufacturing More Secure

National research institute CyManII is working to protect U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, with efforts that touch on training, energy efficiency and cybersecurity. 

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Space

3D Printed "Evolved Structures" for NASA Exoplanet Balloon Mission: The Cool Parts Show #61

Generative design creates stiff, lightweight brackets for EXCITE mission monitoring planets orbiting other stars. The Cool Parts Show visits Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Production

How Norsk Titanium Is Scaling Up AM Production — and Employment — in New York State

New opportunities for part production via the company’s forging-like additive process are coming from the aerospace industry as well as a different sector, the semiconductor industry.

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Production

VOTE in The Cool Parts Showcase!

Your votes will decide the winners of our contest for the coolest 3D printed parts. Learn about the finalists and then cast your vote in each category: Best Bespoke Solution, Best Production Part and Best Proof of Concept. 

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Production

Platform Backed by Blockchain Provides Data Assurance for Additive Manufacturing

VeriTX’s Fortis platform offers “data assurance as a service” to protect digital information from tampering. The product is launching with an initial focus on files intended for 3D printing.

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MoldMaking Conference Session Spotlight: 3D Printing

Want to learn about hybrid tooling inserts or the current state of 3D metal printing?

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Aerospace

To Improve Performance of Compression Molded Composites, Add 3D Printed Preforms

9T Labs' Additive Fusion Technology enables the manufacture of composite structures with as much or as little reinforcement as is necessary, using 3D printed continuous fiber preforms to add strength just where needed. 

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How Acquisition and Investment Activity Affects AM Users and Adopters: AM Radio #40

Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski discuss how the corporate and financial developments in additive manufacturing play out for current and prospective users of AM technology, and where this activity is likely to lead.

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Materials

More Affordable Suture Anchors 3D Printed from PEKK: The Cool Parts Show #60

Selective laser sintering (SLS) of polyether ketone ketone (PEKK) is being used to produce medical implants that are more cost effective and perform better than their conventional counterparts. We highlight fasteners known as suture anchors in this episode of The Cool Parts Show. 

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Automotive

Seurat: 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.

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Formnext

Meet the Finalists in The Cool Parts Showcase

Three of these finalist parts will be featured in upcoming episodes of The Cool Parts Show.

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