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What Goes Around Comes Around?
Consider the potential beneficial effect of so many students now being exposed to digital manufacturing technology at a young age. An Ohio startup aims to increase that exposure.
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ExOne Sees Growing Industrial Use of 3D Printing Marketplaces
Items produced from orders placed through consumer 3D printing services reveal growing use of these services by non-consumers.
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Video: Will the Precision of Metal AM Improve?
Improved accuracy and repeatability will come from better understanding of process parameters and better prediction of the process. But the precision today already surpasses other near-net-shape processes.
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Lockheed Martin: Importance of Closed-Loop Control in AM
Process repeatability will enable the satellite maker to apply additive manufacturing to the production of critical parts.
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Video: Preparing the Next Generation for AM
While college curricula adapt to additive manufacturing, important exposure is happening well before college as well.
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The Possibilities of Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
With dual-wire material feed now allowing for options including blended metal alloys, the metal-deposition process for large-part additive manufacturing continues to forge ahead.
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Five-Axis Machining Complements AM
Intricate components made through AM go directly to a five-axis machine as part of a service combining additive and subtractive processing.
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Video: Will AM Subtract from Machining?
Don’t underestimate machining, which has capabilities additive can’t compete with. AM will have its greatest impact on parts that are designed specifically for this process.
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Video: The Challenges Facing Additive Manufacturing
Roger Hart of Siemens describes the control technology that will address AM challenges such as surface finish and reproducibility.
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AM Magazine Featured on “Making Chips” Podcast
The podcast's hosts engage an AM editor on additive manufacturing’s role relative to CNC machining.
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Video: Microfactories, Large-Scale Machines and 3D Printers in Schools
Lonnie Love of Oak Ridge National Laboratories discusses the various factors that will contribute to the advance of additive manufacturing.
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Video: Is Additive Manufacturing a Competitor to CNC Machining?
Not at all, says Renishaw’s Robert Chiari. The manufacturing methods complement one another, which is why many machining facilities are looking to AM.
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