Peter Zelinski

Peter Zelinski Editor-in-Chief

Software

Video: Offline Verification for Five-Axis Hybrid Manufacturing

Simulation that models the system for machining can also be applied to AM, as well as to a system combining additive and subtractive with intricate machine moves.

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Materials

DMG MORI to Introduce Its SLM System to North America in November

The company now offers both powder-bed and direct-deposition AM. Its president anticipates widespread use of metal AM within 10 years.

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Production

3D Systems CEO: Speed Is the Enabler to Production

Speed will change things, says Joshi. When we imagine that additive doesn’t have a role in high-volume production, we have failed to account for all the ways that faster 3D printing affects the economics.

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Metal

Impressions of Rapid + TCT 2017

Low-cost metal machines were the prominent new introduction to a show that has perhaps completed its transformation into an industrial manufacturing event

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Tooling

Tooling Is the Underappreciated AM Application

One of the significant impacts of industrial 3D printing will be its aid to conventional production.

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Metal

The Promise of Lower-Cost Metal 3D Printing: 3 Views

Representatives of companies using the new Desktop Metal system—Caterpillar, Jabil and Lowes—describe their expected applications for this capability.

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Tooling

Ohio Business Sees Big Possibilities in BAAM for Tooling

A new startup built around a large-scale 3D printer aims to offer short lead times for large industrial tools.

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Postprocessing

Six Additional Advantages of the Desktop Metal Systems

Beyond the accessibility and simplicity, the new metal 3D printing technology delivers other significant benefits as well. One example: Remove support structures by hand rather than machining them.

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Metal

FFF 3D Printing for Metal: Sintering Can Wait

Separating 3D printing from high-temperature processing is part of how the Markforged Metal X realizes a price less than established metal AM equipment.

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Polymer

Video: 3D-Printed Excavator at ConExpo

The cab, arm and heat exchanger were all 3D printed on the first excavator to feature major components produced additively.

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Metal

At Rapid: A 73-Year-Old Machine Shop’s Journey into Metal AM

Imperial Machine & Tool Co. presents at Rapid 2017 about incorporating metal additive manufacturing into a traditional machine shop environment.

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Metal

GE Team Secretly Printed a Helicopter Engine, Replacing 900 Parts with 16

GE Additive’s Ehteshami says, “To make these parts the ordinary way, you typically need 10 to 15 suppliers, you have tolerances, you have nuts, bolts, welds and braces.” With additive, “all of that went away.” The helicopter project is a detail in a story worth knowing.

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