Hybrid manufacturing
Arconic Offers Hybrid Ampliforge Process for High-Performance Aerospace Components
Rapid 2018: The Ampliforge technique combines 3D printing with manufacturing processes such as forging to increase toughness, fatigue and strength.
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Mazak's VC-500 AM Hybrid Offers Five-Axis Motion
Rapid 2018: The hybrid multitasking machine combines laser metal deposition with five-axis machining.
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Hybrid's Ambit PE-1 Enables Polymer 3D Printing on Machine Tools
Rapid 2018: The polymer extrusion head supports the manufacture of near-net parts, tooling, jigs and fixtures.
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Sodick's OPM250L Supports Simultaneous 3D Printing of Multiple Parts
Rapid 2018: Parallel mode technology enables the OPM250L metal 3D printer to sinter multiple parts at once with a single laser.
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Video: The Case for Hybrid Manufacturing in Moldmaking
Instead of relying on EDM to machine features recessed deep into the part, machine those features while 3D printing progresses, finishing them before they become hard to reach.
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Okuma Introduces MU-8000V Laser EX Multitasking CNC Machine
The hybrid multitasking machine tool combines traditional CNC machining with laser metal deposition capabilities.
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CGTech Partners with 3D-Hybrid Solutions
3D-Hybrid Solutions customers will be able to use Vericut software to simulate machine tools equipped with metal additive manufacturing capability.
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Postprocessing System Automates 3D-Printed Part Finishing
The Hybrid Deci Duo system from PostProcess Technologies combines finishing media and chemistry with a PC control to automate support removal and surface finishing.
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Schaeffler and DMG MORI Develop Hybrid Process to Manufacture Rolling Bearing Components
The companies are developing production processes using a Lasertec 65 3D hybrid machine tool.
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Using Hybrid AM, GE Leverages Turbine Blade Repair into Efficiency Improvement
An engineering modification that would have been impractical or cost-prohibitive in the past is realized on a machine tool performing metal 3D printing and machining in the same cycle.
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