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Video: The Pella Corporation Is Succeeding With 3D-Printed Tooling
An engineering leader with the window and door maker shows examples of the tooling and machine parts now produced for the company's manufacturing processes using 3D printing.
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Video: Additive Manufacturing as an Alternative to Casting
Daan Kersten of Additive Industries discusses the promise of metal AM for production. Cost per piece can be lower than many expect.
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3D-Printed Tooling and the Mindset Change at Pella
For the window and door maker, 3D printing for tooling and machine components is “not just another tool, but a whole other toolkit.” However, winning widespread acceptance and understanding was the most important challenge.
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Niche Manufacturer Discovers How Additive and Amazon Go Together
The economics of 3D printing allow for cost-effective production of niche products, and Amazon Prime offers a way to distribute them. The Periscope Case is one company’s first venture into an all-new model aimed at bringing products to market that would never have been profitable before.
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Video: How Additive Manufacturing Is Advancing the Space Industry
By making launch vehicles more efficient and easier to manufacture, AM lets small companies play a significant role in space. Here is a conversation with an aspiring startup.
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Why Additive Manufacturing Needs the Executive Perspective
CEOs, take note! Adopting additive manufacturing is a choice likely to affect far more than just production. The paradigm still missing from the evaluation of AM in many cases is the view that sees the impacts in various parts of the enterprise.
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Watch: Production Additive Manufacturing Is Here
Additive systems are proving capable for cost-effective production even of parts that aren’t all that complex. This will be the next phase of AM.
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AM Brings Down the Wall Between Manufacturing and Design
In additive manufacturing, design and manufacturing blend together. They can’t be separate if AM is to realize its promise.
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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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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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Video: In Additive Manufacturing, Material Engineering Is Also Needed for Supports
The sacrificial material affects the quality of 3D printing and the efficiency of the process. That's why material developers direct attention toward the material that gets thrown away.
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Economies of Scope: Additive Manufacturing’s Trajectory Toward Bigness
A new book argues that the advance of AM will ultimately favor bigger and bigger manufacturers. Recent articles about groups and companies seeking to benefit from AM show a tiny trajectory in the same direction.
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