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3D Printing Heat-Resistant Materials on a Preheated Substrate
Preheating the substrate plate in laser beam melting to 500°C prevents crack formation in AM parts made from carbon tool steels.
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Additive Manufacturing Sparks F1 Cars to Victory
A look behind the scenes at the Alfa Romeo Sauber in Switzerland reveals how additive manufacturing plays a decisive role in a Formula One team's challenge to make a new best-car-in the-world every year.
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Additive Design Offers New Opportunities in Grinding
Swiss grinding machine manufacturer Studer leverages additive manufacturing technology to build parts such as hydraulic components, machine covers and coolant nozzles for its high-precision machines. The result is optimized lubrication during grinding, increased service life of the grinding wheel, and quick and easy parts assembly during machine production.
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Hermle Combines Metal Powder Application Process with Five-Axis Machining
Hermle integrated its MPA technology, a process where metal powder is applied by kinetic compacting to build completely sealed materials, in a Hermle five-axis machining center to create parts with highly complex inner geometries.
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Co-Innovating the Future of Industrial Additive Manufacturing
Siemens’ recent additive manufacturing (AM) influencer tour to Hannover Messe in Germany not only highlighted how the company’s software solution provides capabilities to industrialize AM in a single integrated system, but also demonstrated that it needs a global AM network to co-innovate the future.
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3D Printing the World's Smallest Flow Measurement Probes
Vectoflow has found its niche in 3D printing flow measurement probes featuring up to five holes on a probe head diameter as tiny as 0.9 mm.
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Printing End-Use Parts from High-Performance Ceramics
The lithography-based ceramic manufacturing (LCM) process allows the cost-effective production of ceramic parts even for a batch size of one.
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Europe Seeks to Develop the Jack-Of-All-Trades of Additive Manufacturing
Supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, the Kraken project team aims to develop an AM machine that can process large functional components ranging to 20 meters in length, made of plastics, metal or both.
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How to Accelerate Industrial Additive Manufacturing
The 2018 Additive World Conference was dedicated to industrial additive manufacturing and covered all relevant topics from the fields of 3D design, simulation, manufacturing and materials as well as case studies.
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GE and Concept Laser Aim to Lead Digital Transformation of Industrial Production
European correspondent Barbara Schulz spoke to Concept Laser founder Frank Herzog to find out how the dynamic between the German company and U.S.-based GE forms the perfect symbiosis to grow a global AM business.
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Overcoming the Challenges of Copper
A research organization in Germany is developing a laser beam source that operates with a green light, enabling selective laser melting of a copper alloy.
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Advantages of Wire Over Powder in Additive Manufacturing
Gefertec says its wire-fed additive manufacturing systems can overcome existing process limitations of powder-fed systems.
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