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Recap: The Additive Manufacturing Workshop for Automotive
The inaugural AM Workshop for Automotive at the North American International Auto Show brought together the world’s top automotive and additive manufacturing technology experts on one stage. Here’s what they had to say.
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Inside the Penn State Additive Manufacturing Master’s Program, Part 1
PSU's engineering master's degree in additive manufacturing and design offers students and manufacturing professionals a higher education in a continuously maturing field.
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Why GM’s Electric Future Is Also an Additive Future
Production capacity isn’t the only reason that additive has been slow to make inroads into the automotive industry. There is a larger barrier to entry—one that General Motors and Autodesk are working to overcome.
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How Topology Optimization Could Be the Key to Longer-Lasting Hip Implants
Hip stem implants must support the mechanical loads of the patient’s lifestyle, but should also avoid stress shielding. A team from Altair leveraged simulation, topology optimization and 3D printing to design an optimized hip stem that meets both conditions.
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Video: Inside the Penn State Additive Manufacturing Master's Program, Part 2
A conversation with Brad Hanks, Ph.D. student at Penn State University, illustrates the intersection of optimization and AM with the example of an electrode for cancer treatment surgery.
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Top 10 Stories of 2018
Additive manufacturing's advance into production, metal 3D printing and machine learning top the list of this year's most-read stories.
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Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories from 2018
Additive Manufacturing editors share their favorite stories of AM users, 3D printing applications and adjacent technologies from the past year.
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Options for Finishing and Postprocessing Metal 3D-Printed Parts
There is a host of technologies available for finishing and postprocessing your AM parts. This column identifies options beyond machining.
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Update on Evolve: Ensuring Repeatability, Reliability and Speed for Scale Production
Engineering the machine and process to work as consistently as production hardware ought to perform is where the company says its efforts have been focused.
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Thermwood and U.S. Navy Complete Validation for AM Marine Program
The validation program centered on printing an unclassified scale nose of a submarine using Thermwood’s Large Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM) system.
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Inspection Software Compares Scan Data to CAD
Near-net parts complicate approaches to metrology, but inspection software like Autodesk’s PowerInspect enable users to simplify the process.
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Video: Redesigned Milling Cutter Demonstrates Design Possibilities of AM
Topology optimization plus a material change realize an 80 percent reduction in mass.
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