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Slideshow: Additive Manufacturing Technology at Euromold 2013
A noticeable shift at the show this year was greater emphasis on 3D printing for production applications. This year’s show also saw established makers of conventional manufacturing equipment exhibiting their own new additive manufacturing machines.
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Hybrid Machine Combines Milling and Additive Manufacturing
Far from being opposite or competitive processes, additive manufacturing and CNC machining actually go together. They belong in the same machine.
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Additive Manufacturing for Production Medical Parts
Various manufacturers have medical products in full production using additive manufacturing.
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Forget What You Know
In small ways and in very big ways, additive manufacturing changes basic assumptions about the design of manufactured parts. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is discovering what the new assumptions should be.
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How Would You Make This Bracket Better?
When design constraints are taken away, what does the very best design for a given application look like?
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Landspeed Record with Laser Melting
The very first object to break the landspeed barrier of 1,000 mph is likely to be a part produced through additive manufacturing.
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Additive Manufacturing’s Opportunity in One Word
I want to say just one word to you: brackets.
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Additive Manufacturing for In-House Tooling
One of the benefits of having additive manufacturing capability in-house is that it gives the manufacturer an efficient resource for quickly producing custom devices for use in its own processes.
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Latest Issue of AM: Seeing is Believing
A photo essay documents the types of parts that are possible with an additive production process. The parts come from a medical manufacturing company that is now using additive manufacturing to create implants and instruments that would have been impossible or impractical to create by any other means.
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After the Hype, the Promise Remains
I had assumed that writing about manufacturing technology would always mean writing about topics that few people appreciate. Then came additive manufacturing.
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Obstacles to the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing
Renishaw was a user of additive manufacturing before it became an OEM supplying additive manufacturing technology—specifically, laser melting systems for producing metal parts. For a metrology company to diversify into additive manufacturing machinery in this way indicates the long-term promise the company sees for this method of manufacturing.
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Something More
The integration of manufacturing with product development creates a context that will help additive manufacturing advance.
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