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How to Implement Additive Manufacturing Across a Global Company: 5 Lessons
With more than 100 facilities and about 200,000 employees worldwide, Flex has a steep challenge in bringing 3D printing into its operations. Five things the company is learning.
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Gantri’s 3D Printed Luxury Lighting Brings Designers Closer to Consumers
The San Francisco startup is changing designer lighting with a designer-forward online marketplace and just-in-time delivery enabled by 3D printing.
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3D Printing Clears Path to Production for DustRam
DustRam did not start out as a manufacturer. But thanks to 3D printing, the company now makes many of its own products in house, in addition to parts for customers.
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Card Decks Leverage Additive Creativity
How custom card decks are helping people be more creative with AM.
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Dental Lab Brings 3D Printing into Digital Dentistry Workflow
With 3D scan technology and resin-based 3D printers, Spectrum Dental Printing is changing the way dental devices are made — and potentially, how dentistry happens.
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The Hidden Complexities of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions’ robotic metal 3D printing process is a choreographed dance between welding, robots, automation, heat management and machining. The new venture may have a distinct advantage in the field: its parent company’s 125 year-old legacy.
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How Additive Manufacturing Is Expanding the Possibilities for Plastics
In terms of lead time, part size, quantity and inventory needs, the limitations on plastics are being overcome. We will see plastics doing more — the theme of several recent articles we’ve posted.
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Production 3D Printing With Roots in Materials Development: The Origin Story
Production-oriented polymer AM machine uses the same platform with the same range of controls originally conceived for material development.
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What A Former Moldmaker Has Learned About AM: Leverage Simplicity and Let It Scale
The once-again independent Linear AMS is now more focused on additive manufacturing than ever before.
Read More3D Printing Trends for 2020 (and a Quick Look Back at 2019)
Additive Manufacturing (both the technology and the media brand) advanced and matured in 2019. A quick recap of 2019, plus predictions for 3D printing in 2020.
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Is Solid-State Additive Manufacturing an Enabler to the Internet of Things?
Startup Tri-D Dynamics sees precision cold spray 3D printing providing IoT-enabled parts with electronics built in. The promise is sensing in environments where the sensing might be needed most.
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Top 10 Stories of 2019
Additive manufacturing’s advance into aerospace, metal 3D printing, enterprises and production top the list of the most-read stories of 2019.
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