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MC Machinery Systems to Offer Matsuura Lumex Additive Mfr. Machine
MC Machinery Systems, the Wood Dale, Illinois-based supplier of EDM machines, machining centers, press brakes, and laser and waterjet machines, has announced a partnership with Matsuura Machinery Corp. to introduce Matsuura’s Lumex Avance-25 additive manufacturing machine to the North American marketplace.
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GE Contest Winner: The Most Strength with the Least Weight
GE recently announced the winner of its Jet Engine Bracket Challenge. The challenge involved a bracket to be shifted from CNC machining to additive manufacturing. Machining limits design options, but additive manufacturing offers complexity for free.
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A 3D Printer in Every School
Inspired by a remark from the President’s State of the Union address, MakerBot and its partners aim to put a 3D printer in every school in the United States.
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Video: Additive/Subtractive Machining Cycle
DMG Mori produced the part seen in this video to demonstrate the capabilities of its new hybrid machine, which is capable of both CNC machining and additive manufacturing through laser metal deposition.
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Hybrid Machine Combines Milling and Additive Manufacturing
Far from being opposite or competitive processes, additive manufacturing and CNC machining actually go together. They belong in the same machine.
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Additive Manufacturing for Production Medical Parts
Various manufacturers have medical products in full production using additive manufacturing.
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Forget What You Know
In small ways and in very big ways, additive manufacturing changes basic assumptions about the design of manufactured parts. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is discovering what the new assumptions should be.
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How Would You Make This Bracket Better?
When design constraints are taken away, what does the very best design for a given application look like?
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Video: On-Site Manufacturing in the Future
A team of students in Finland produced this video of their vision of how parts may be produced in the future. This entry won Fastems’ conceptual design competition held in honor of the company’s 30 years of building flexible manufacturing systems.
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Landspeed Record with Laser Melting
The very first object to break the landspeed barrier of 1,000 mph is likely to be a part produced through additive manufacturing.
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Additive Manufacturing’s Opportunity in One Word
I want to say just one word to you: brackets.
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Additive Manufacturing for In-House Tooling
One of the benefits of having additive manufacturing capability in-house is that it gives the manufacturer an efficient resource for quickly producing custom devices for use in its own processes.
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