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At General Atomics, Do Unmanned Aerial Systems Reveal the Future of Aircraft Manufacturing?
The maker of the Predator and SkyGuardian remote aircraft can implement additive manufacturing more rapidly and widely than the makers of other types of planes. The role of 3D printing in current and future UAS components hints at how far AM can go to save cost and time in aircraft production and design.
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7 Lessons From General Atomics on AM for Aircraft Part Production
A manufacturing leader overseeing the way additive manufacturing is transforming unmanned aerial systems (UASs) offers observations about succeeding with 3D printing as an aircraft production process.
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For Future AM Engineers: What We Shared With Penn State Students
Stephanie and Pete were guest lecturers at Penn State University to a graduate class in Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM). Here are some of the points we got to talk about with students.
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Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Machine Tools Continue to Make Gains (Includes Video)
The hybrid machine tool is an idea that continues to advance. Two important developments of recent years expand the possibilities for this platform.
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5 Points You Might Not Know About Hybrid CNC Machine Tools
Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies’ co-founder describes the role of hybrid additive manufacturing machines, and explores their possibilities related to heat treating, multimaterial tooling and making parts with embedding sensing.
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Zeda AM Production Plant in Ohio Now Open — Thoughts on the New Facility
73,000-square-foot metal powder bed fusion plant includes extensive machining capability plus separate operational models for serving medical versus other businesses.
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Introducing The Cool Parts Show ALL ACCESS
Subscribe for early access to new episodes plus exclusive extra video segments offering more about each part.
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3D Printed Lattice for Mars Sample Return Crash Landing: The Cool Parts Show Bonus
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory employs laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing plus chemical etching to create strong, lightweight lattice structures optimized to protect rock samples from Mars during their violent arrival on earth.
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Why the Long View Favors AM: Manufacturers at Each Step Face a Choice to Rely Less on Tooling
Additive is now too well-established for its successes to be dislodged by market change. Meanwhile, the most important factor is the promise that will continue to drive adoption.
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What We Found at Formnext 2023
New metal processes, new possibilities for existing processes, the next step for copper and more. Here is a summary drawing on all our reporting from November’s event.
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3D Printing for Automated Food Packaging: The Cool Parts Show All Access
Parts on Demand CEO Neil van Es shows examples of 3D printed food automation hardware.
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Intrepid Automation: How Investment Casting Benefits From High Speed DLP
Vat polymerization 3D printing for investment casting patterns offers a way to deliver design freedom at production speed.
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