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For Sustainable 3D Printed Architecture Think Renewable, Not Permanent

The design choices of today won’t be the trends of tomorrow. Aectual chooses to embrace changing tastes by making it easy to procure and recycle 3D printed architectural elements.

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Metal

The Way Ahead for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

Tooling today, production tomorrow. The capability will advance as value is increasingly seen in lead time savings and design opportunities. Parts that today are cast offer a particularly promising application for a process that is “welding, except not.”

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In Manufacturing, AI Is Clumsy Until It Is Invisible

Artificial intelligence is finding wide use in advancing additive manufacturing. We have seen a hint at how far this might go.

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Automation

Markforged’s Eiger Fleet Enables More Control, Automation of Distributed Manufacturing

Cloud-based software solution manages distributed manufacturing operations on an enterprise and global scale with increased efficiency and insight.

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Automation

AI to Aid Consistency in Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing

Machine vision and algorithms have helped EBAM users address problems as they occur in deposition, but AI could be able to predict problems before they happen.

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Automation

4 Ways Robots and 3D Printing Intersect

Four examples of how robotic automation and additive manufacturing both help and are helped by each other.

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Automation

Why Self-Supervised Deep Learning May Be Additive Manufacturing's AI Solution

In collaboration with equipment supplier EOS, artificial intelligence experts at NNAISENSE have created a self-taught “deep digital twin” to advance additive manufacturing, starting with direct metal laser sintering of titanium.

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Automation

More Examples of How 3D Printed Tooling Is Transforming Part Production

Illustrations of successes with tooling made through additive manufacturing in applications involving composite parts, robots, metal coating, die casting and construction.

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Software

Topology Optimization Software Enhances Gripper Reliability

Design software with built-in topology optimization and reconstruction features enabled Preziosa Francesco SRL to use Desktop Metal’s Studio System to improve the performance of a robotic gripper.

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Repair

ZVerse Launches “2D-to-3D” Automated Conversion for Part Production

Automation-assisted conversion generates usable 3D digital assets from legacy 2D manufacturing plans for service and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) part production

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