Hybrid manufacturing

Video: Hybrid Manufacturing Without Melting: Hermle’s Metal Powder Application (MPA) Process

The Metal Powder Application (MPA) process uses cold spray to apply metal to an existing workpiece. Because the material deforms rather than melts, MPA opens new possibilities for functional grading and other multimaterial applications. 

Stephanie Hendrixson
Executive Editor, Additive Manufacturing

Video: Robot Machining Will Complement Robot DED

Robots can do additive manufacturing. Can they do hybrid manufacturing? Precision milling of metal using a robot offers this promise.

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Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Improves Debarking Knife Tip Strength and Production Efficiency

Nicholson Manufacturing chose the Mastercam APlus specialized add-on to unlock hybrid manufacturing for making its debarker knife tips, enabling it to add durable layers to the wear surfaces of the tips to make them more resilient while also making the production process more efficient.

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Meltio, JMT Collaborate on Hybrid CNC Machines Utilizing DED Technology

JMT now serves as an OEM for the Meltio Engine CNC Integration which enables metal 3D printing and machining of complex geometries in a single process step.

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Video: For 3D Printed Aircraft Structure, Machining Aids Fatigue Strength

Machining is a valuable complement to directed energy deposition, says Big Metal Additive. Topology-optimized aircraft parts illustrate the improvement in part performance from machining as the part is being built.

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Machine Tool Drawbar Made With Additive Manufacturing Saves DMG MORI 90% Lead Time and 67% CO2 Emission

A new production process for the multimetal drawbar replaces an outsourced plating step with directed energy deposition, performing this DED along with roughing, finishing and grinding on a single machine.

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UMaine’s FoF 1.0 Large-Scale 3D Printer Shatters Former Guinness World Record for Additive Manufacturing

The large-scale thermoplastic polymer printer offers new opportunities for eco-friendly and cost-effective manufacturing for numerous industries, including national security, affordable housing, bridge construction, ocean and wind energy technologies, and maritime vessel fabrication.

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Phillips Corp. and Laserline Combine Technologies for Hybrid Laser Powder System

The system features diode lasers, which are well suited for precise and energy-efficient material processing.

Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media

Sidus Space Successfully Launches LizzieSat Hybrid 3D-Printed Satellite

The hybrid 3D-printed satellite was manufactured using Markforged 3D printers for parts that would be incredibly lightweight, durable and custom to the structure to ensure the satellite remains intact during launch and works properly for its full life span in space.

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GRM Develops Software for OverHiPP Project to Improve Accuracy of Digital Twins

As part of an OverHiPP study, GRM has created software that enables users to virtually model and analyze 3D printed structures at a level of detail never seen before — an accurate digital twin can now be generated, enabling precise design decisions to be made.

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JuggerBot 3D Awarded $4 Million by Air Force to Develop Large Format Hybrid Additive System

The project focuses on advancing the ability to print a thermoset composite material that can transform the way an aircraft structure is designed, fabricated and sustained for limited-life aircraft.

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Video: Intelligent Layering Metal 3D Printing at 3DEO

Contract manufacturer 3DEO delivers metal parts using Intelligent Layering, a binder jetting-like 3D printing process the company developed and operates internally. Here’s how it works. 

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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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JuggerBot 3D Chooses Research Partners for Air Force Large-Format Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mississippi State University’s Advanced Composite Institute have been selected to assist in the research and technical development of production workflows using thermoplastic and thermoset deposition.

Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media

Soniclayer 1600 Combines Ultrasonic 3D Printing With CNC Milling

The printer features an ultrasonic additive manufacturing 3D printing process which generates very little heat, making it possible to embed electronics, fiber optics, sensors and other components inside these prints.

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Mantle’s High-Precision Shaping for Automating Precision Toolmaking

The High-Precision Shaping feature expands the capabilities of Mantle’s hybrid metal 3D printing technology, enabling finer feature creation and dramatically expanding the geometries compatible with its TrueShape process.

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Nicolet Plastics Succeeds Using Mantle's Hybrid Metal 3D Printing Method for Mold Tooling

A recent webinar explores Nicolet Plastics’ success using Trueshape Technology, Mantle’s approach to print injection mold tooling. The current challenges this technology addresses and alleviates in additive manufacturing confirms this method is effectively reducing lead times and cost constraints, while producing better inserts.  

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Large-Format “Cold” 3D Printing With Polypropylene and Polyethylene

Israeli startup Largix has developed a production solution that can 3D print PP and PE without melting them. Its first test? Custom tanks for chemical storage.

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DMG MORI’s Hybrid 3D Printer Offers 5-Axis Simultaneous Machining

DMG MORI’s Lasertec 3000 DED hybrid 3D printer offers process integration by combining laser deposition welding with 5-axis, turn-mill machining in one setup.

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Matsuura, Purdue Collaborate on Convergent Manufacturing Innovations

The partners are working to advance innovations in convergent manufacturing as researchers converge an array of processes in one platform to enable breakthroughs in manufacturing science and engineering.

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New Equipment, Additive Manufacturing for Casting Replacement and AM's Next Phase at IMTS 2024: AM Radio #54

Additive manufacturing’s presence at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show revealed trends in technology as well as how 3D printing is being applied today and where it will be tomorrow. Peter Zelinski and I share observations from the show on this episode of AM Radio. 

Stephanie Hendrixson
Executive Editor, Additive Manufacturing

Nikon Invests in Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies

HMT’s technology enables users to take full advantage of the additive manufacturing process by unifying multiple complementary technologies in one setup.

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The World’s Tallest Freestanding 3D Printed Structure

Dimensional Innovations paired additive and subtractive manufacturing to create a monument for the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders new stadium. The “never been done before” project resulted in the world’s tallest freestanding 3D printed structure.

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World’s Largest Metal 3D Printer Seen at Ingersoll Grand Opening Event

Maker of large additive and subtractive machines adds capacity in Rockford, Illinois.

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Hybrid Metal 3D Printer Enables Quick-turn Prototyping

IMTS: Matsuura Machinery’s Lumex Avance hybrid metal 3D printers are said to enable lights-out production for highly accurate parts from metal powders.

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HyperMill CAM Software for Hybrid Manufacturing

IMTS 2022: The hyperMill CAM software features an additive manufacturing capability option, which is said to provide efficient hybrid processing with simultaneous additive and subtractive processing on one machine.

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Hybrid Manufacturing Turns Design Inside Out

Hybrid systems combine traditional subtractive processes with additional processes, including laser metal deposition for additive manufacturing and friction stir welding, enabling manufacturers to design products from the inside-out.

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