Articles
Fluid Dynamics Software Optimizes Duct Airflow, Saves Energy
Siemens’ Star CCM+ fluid dynamics software enabled Siemens and HP to optimize the air flow within a 3D printed air duct for cooling HP’s Multi Jet Fusion printers.
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Establishing a Process for 3D Printing Carbide
Using its experience making pressed and sintered carbide parts, Hyperion Materials & Technologies developed a new material, printing processes and sintering cycles for 3D printed carbide.
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AM Center Supports Automotive Supplier's Greener Engine Plan
Automotive supplier Mahle has invested in an additive manufacturing center, saying the technology will support development in thermal management, mechatronics and electronics to produce more environmentally friendly engines.
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AM Material Certification Database Cuts Redundant Testing
UL’s Blue Card program provides a reliable, transferrable set of test results for plastic materials used in additive manufacturing — so long as the user’s printing parameters match the tested parameters.
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One Small Step for Metals, One Giant Leap for AM
Eliminating support structures for metal parts expands pathways to profitable AM.
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Why Self-Supervised Deep Learning May Be Additive Manufacturing's AI Solution
In collaboration with equipment supplier EOS, artificial intelligence experts at NNAISENSE have created a self-taught “deep digital twin” to advance additive manufacturing, starting with direct metal laser sintering of titanium.
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With Binder Jet Aluminum, Ford Prepares for Production 3D Printing at Automotive Scale
Component for popular car will be the first case of continuing applications of additive manufacturing to automotive-quantity metal part production.
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Improving AM’s Efficiency with Generative Design
By engineering parts as opposed to designing them, MSC Apex Generative Design improves the efficiency of not only the final parts, but of the design and manufacturing processes as well.
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Untangling the Promise of Carbon Nanotubes for 3D Printing
Recently emerged from stealth mode, Mechnano is bringing the promise of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to life within various modalities of 3D printing. How these tiny additives deliver macro-level material improvements.
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3D Printed Cooling Bars Will Improve Observability of Antimatter
An experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be better able to detect the paths of particles thanks to efficient cooling delivered by metal 3D printed tubes.
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Is AM in Competition With Conventional Manufacturing? Tooling Is on Conventional’s Side
Recent articles consider the other way additive manufacturing is advancing production: not by 3D printing parts, but in the ways 3D printed tooling makes casting, machining, molding and other processes better.
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More Examples of How 3D Printed Tooling Is Transforming Part Production
Illustrations of successes with tooling made through additive manufacturing in applications involving composite parts, robots, metal coating, die casting and construction.
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