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Molder’s Experience Illustrates How AM Will Interact with Other Advances
Additive manufacturing is not moving forward in isolation. It will leverage and work in harmony with other manufacturing technologies that are also moving forward.
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Caterpillar Leader Urges, Embrace AM for the Right Reasons
FOMO—fear of missing out—is not the right reason. Valid reasons to 3D print relate to cost or time saving and delivering value.
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Drilling Jig an Example of How 3D Printing Assists Machining
A machine shop benefits from 3D printing as a means of efficiently making custom hardware to aid both the process and the machines.
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Educators and Industry Discuss Need for Engineering Education to Adapt to AM
The National Forum on Additive Manufacturing Education and Training recently held at Penn State University yielded these interesting points.
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Proto Labs Opens New Additive Manufacturing Facility
The new site houses 70 industrial 3D printing machines to provide AM services via e-commerce.
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How Does Topology Optimization Work? See the Recorded Webinar
This SolidThinking presentation includes examples of weight-optimized parts, demonstration of topology optimization and responses to viewer questions.
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Does AM Favor Integration?
Arconic, one of the companies launched in the separation of Alcoa, combines operations from metal powder production through postprocessing within a single company. Additive manufacturing perhaps uniquely benefits from bringing this range of capabilities together, since success in AM relies on more than 3D printing.
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Webinar: Topology Optimization of 3D-Printed Components
Register for the free webinar by SolidThinking to be held Friday, September 30, at 1:00 p.m. EST.
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Slideshow: Inside the New Honeywell AM Facility for Reactive Metals
Seven machines currently committed to aluminum expand the company’s capacity to 3D print both tooling and parts. One of the photos illustrates a safety measure addressing reactive metals.
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Lightweight Motorcycle Made Through AM to Be Seen at IMTS
Additive manufacturing allowed electric bike’s frame to be optimized for minimal mass and material.
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7 Important Implications of the New Stratasys Production Demonstrators
One working machine concept expands the build size and speed for FDM. Another performs robotic 3D printing in composite material. Here is what these two concepts suggest about the advance of additive manufacturing into industrial production.
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At IMTS, Methods 3D to Place AM in the Midst of Machine Tools
Machining demos will show additive parts postprocessed on CNC machines, and a high-speed 3D printing system will show fully automated production. “This is a manufacturing technology,” says company COO.
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