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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.

AM Workshop at IMTS: Succeeding With Powder Bed Fusion

A half-day event at the International Manufacturing Technology Show focuses on tactics for success for machine shops and other manufacturers preparing to embrace production 3D printing via powder bed fusion.

Additive Manufacturing Versus Cavitation

The design freedom possible with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printing is making it faster and easier to produce complex anticavitation devices for valves.

Variable Resistance Valve Trim Achieves Lead Time Reduction Through AM: The Cool Parts Show #69

Baker Hughes is realizing shorter lead times and simplified manufacturing through powder bed fusion to produce valve trims previously assembled from many machined metal parts.

Cumberland Additive: EBM Development and AM Community Among the Benefits at Neighborhood 91

“Digital transparency” is key, says regional director Mark Straszheim, as employees oversee resources in both Pennsylvania and Texas.

What Is Neighborhood 91?

With its first building completely occupied, the N91 campus is on its way to becoming an end-to-end ecosystem for production additive manufacturing. Updates from the Pittsburgh initiative.

AM Investment Trends

At AMT’s MTForecast 2023 — an event which aimed to help manufacturers develop their business strategy — I discussed equity investments in additive manufacturing.

What We Found at Formnext 2023

New metal processes, new possibilities for existing processes, the next step for copper and more. Here is a summary drawing on all our reporting from November’s event.

Dyndrite’s LPBF Pro Software Enhances Precision, Traceability, Repeatability for 3D Metal Printing

The software for laser powder bed fusion streamlines processes by enabling the development of innovative parameter strategies and optimization routines, while eliminating manual build preparation hassles.

Multimodal Powders Bring Uniform Layers, Downstream Benefits for Metal Additive Manufacturing

A blend of particle sizes is the key to Uniformity Labs’ powders for 3D printing. The multimodal materials make greater use of the output from gas atomization while bringing productivity advantages to laser powder bed fusion and, increasingly, binder jetting.

Grenzebach Develops Automated Depowdering System for SLM Solutions

The DPS NXG enables automated depowdering of 3D components up to 2.3 tons.

SLM Solutions, Assembrix Work to Ensure Secure Remote Printing

Following the integration of Assembrix VMS software into SLM Solutions’ machines, both companies are now working to ensure the enhanced safety and full protection of customers' intellectual property, which is made possible through the utilization of blockchain and encryption technologies.

IperionX to Provide 100% Recycled Titanium Metal Powders to SLM Customers

It is said IperionX’s titanium technologies enable the production of high-quality titanium powders from 100% recycled titanium feedstocks to significantly reduce the carbon footprint and environmental impact of titanium.

3D Printed Golf Putter Shafts: AM Tailors Weight Distribution for an Optimized Putting Stroke

Snarr3D offers high-performance golf putters with aesthetic features made possible through 3D printing. In manipulating the weight distribution of the golf putter shaft, Snarr3D aims to enhance accuracy and performance to give golfers the equipment suited to their individual game.

Additive Manufacturing Is Subtractive, Too: How CNC Machining Integrates With AM (Includes Video)

For Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing, succeeding with laser powder bed fusion as a production process means developing a machine shop that is responsive to, and moves at the pacing of, metal 3D printing.

SLM Solutions’ NXG XII 600E Offers Extended Build Envelope

The NXG XII 600E is an advanced productive system featuring an end-to-end production workflow, including external cooldown unpacking to maximize machine uptime, enabling job-to-job turnover under one hour.

Sigma Additive Solutions Partners With SLM Solutions to Optimize Quality Solutions in AM

Sigma’s PrintRite3D technology and SLM Solutions’ 3D metal printers will enable users to standardize product development. The shared goal is to integrate certified quality assurance software for the use of additive manufacturing machinery.

3D Printed Valve Part Protects Pipes by Preventing Cavitation: The Cool Parts Show #56

The Fisher Cavitrol Hex trim from Emerson divides the fluid flow into numerous parallel streams thanks to geometry made possible through additive manufacturing.

Why AM Leads to Internal Production for Collins Aerospace (Includes Video)

A new Charlotte-area center will provide additive manufacturing expertise and production capacity for Collins business units based across the country, allowing the company to guard proprietary design and process details that are often part of AM.

Materialise Expands CO-AM Platform With 7 Technology Partners, Magics Integration

With the addition of the seven new partners, Materialise says it delivers on the promise to connect and automate all steps of the AM process, including automating design, labeling, machine monitoring and postprocessing.

10 Important Developments in Additive Manufacturing Seen at Formnext 2022 (Includes Video)

The leading trade show dedicated to the advance of industrial 3D printing returned to the scale and energy not seen since before the pandemic. More ceramics, fewer supports structures and finding opportunities in wavelengths — these are just some of the AM advances notable at the show this year.

Dyndrite, SLM Solutions Cooperate to Maximize Digital Manufacturing Software Tools

The companies are working together to enable users to fully create SLM parameters and tool paths to fit their individual needs, maximizing materials development and application or part-specific build rate strategies.

Divergent Technologies Eyes High-Volume, Optimized Automotive Production Through Additive

While some automotive OEMs are using additive here and there, Divergent Technologies is basing its vehicles on 3D printed structures.

3D Printed Brake Panel for the Rail Industry: The Cool Parts Show #52

In this episode of The Cool Parts Show, laser powder bed fusion simplifies the manufacturing of air brake panels for light rail systems made by Wabtec.

25 Years Later, What’s Exciting in Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion?

Often seen as runner-up to laser powder bed fusion, are we finally in the golden age of the electron beam?

Nikon Launches Friendly Takeover for SLM Solutions

The SLM management and supervisory boards welcome and fully support the transaction and takeover offer.

Productivity Gains Set to Transform AM

Integrated digital production set to transform additive manufacturing.

Bertram Dental Lab Uses 5 SLM 3D Printers for Denture Print Service

Bertram Dental Lab partners can simply upload their completed .stl design files through the service portal to access direct manufacturing for cobalt chrome removable partial dentures.

SLM Solutions Integrates Assembrix VMS Software for Secure Remote Printing

The integration is said to enable the creation of a reliable, international AM ecosystem with new opportunities across the entire value chain.

Additive Manufacturing for Rail Industry Is Gaining Traction at Neighborhood 91

Locomotive manufacturer Wabtec is the first tenant of Pittsburgh’s N91 additive manufacturing ecosystem, where the company is ramping up production via laser powder bed fusion.

SLM Solutions Outfits MacLean Additive for Serial Production

MacLean Additive is the additive manufacturing startup within MacLean-Fogg Component Solutions, a Top 100 supplier to the North American automotive industry.

AMGTA Grows with Six New Member Companies

New AMGTA members include Divergent Technologies, the Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing (ACAM), Kurtz Ersa, Nexa3D, Tekna Advanced Materials and Trane Technologies.

Simulation Prevents Expensive Hybrid Manufacturing Errors

Errors while finish-machining additively manufactured parts can waste production time and tens of thousands of dollars. Vericut has enabled Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing to avoid these mistakes.

SLM Solutions, Burgmaier Introduce Case-Hardening Steel for AM Tooling, Hybrid Manufacturing

Burgmaier introduces case-hardening steel 16MnCr5 to additive manufacturing and develops a hybrid additive manufacturing process using the SLM280.

SLM Solutions Outfitting Morf3D’s Headquarters

Morf3D’s new Applied Digital Manufacturing Center is designed to help streamline and accelerate serial additive manufacturing production lines across the globe.

AMGTA Continues Growth With New Members

The Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association is a global trade organization created to promote the environmental benefits of additive manufacturing.

Improving Metal 3D Printing Processes by Reducing Support Structures

SLM Solutions’ Free Float program reduces the need for support structures, decreasing build time and powder usage, improving part quality, opening up space for more parts and giving users more design freedom.

AM Center Supports Automotive Supplier's Greener Engine Plan

Automotive supplier Mahle has invested in an additive manufacturing center, saying the technology will support development in thermal management, mechatronics and electronics to produce more environmentally friendly engines.

One Small Step for Metals, One Giant Leap for AM

Eliminating support structures for metal parts expands pathways to profitable AM.

SLM Solutions’ Free Float Software Reduces 3D Printing Support Structures

Software is said to give users the ability to design bolder, freer and with fewer limitations to work faster and more productively.

Safran, SLM Solutions Test Technology for Large Airplane Component

In a joint project, Safran Landing Systems and SLM Solutions tested selective laser melting to produce a component of a nose landing gear for a bizjet, marking a world first for a part of this size.

Elementum 3D, SLM Solutions Collaborate on Metal Powder Development

Unified approach enables more powder choices for additive manufacturing users.

AMEXCI, SLM Solutions Strengthen Collaboration on AM Application Studies

AMEXCI invests in the SLM500, a selective laser melting machine, for application studies to further accelerate the industrialization of metal-based additive manufacturing (AM).

Porsche Advances Electrification with Generative Design

The sports car manufacturer achieves weight savings and assembly consolidation using additive manufacturing instead of casting for an electric drive housing.

8 Cool Parts from Formnext 2019: The Cool Parts Show #6

Editors Peter Zelinski and Stephanie Hendrixson attended Formnext 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. Here are 8 cool 3D printed parts spotted on the show floor.

Video: Support Structures Are Misnamed! How to Understand Anchors in Additive Manufacturing

Supports or anchors can account for a significant share of both the engineering investment and material use in metal additive manufacturing. Michael Hansen of SLM Solutions discusses the role and importance of support structures.

SLM Solutions 3D Prints Orbex Launcher

Orbex has built a metal rocket engine 3D printed on SLM Solutions’ selective laser melting machine.

SLM Solutions Moves to New Headquarters

The expanded facility will support increased production of the company's selective laser melting systems.

SLM Solutions Adds Sales Partner in Canada

Spark & Co. will be supplying SLM Solutions’ metal additive manufacturing equipment line to customers in Canada.

Metal Additive Manufacturing Assists Olympic Cyclists in Rio

Custom handlebars made with selective laser melting helped a team of cyclists from France earn a medal at the 2016 Olympic Games.

IMTS 2016 Product Preview

Preview some of the AM technologies to be exhibited at the International Manufacturing Technology Show.

DMRC Research Examines Properties of SLM Components

What will it take to bring metal 3D printing up to the level of true production manufacturing?

Selective Laser Melting in Action

Four recent projects take on selective laser melting technology to improve part design, process speed, safety and flexibility.

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