Hybrid manufacturing

Polymer

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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Mold Tooling

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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DED

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

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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Machining

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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Metal

Additive Manufacturing at EMO 2017

Here are some of the AM technologies Editor-in-Chief Peter Zelinski saw at the world’s largest metalworking show.

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Software

Video: Offline Verification for Five-Axis Hybrid Manufacturing

Simulation that models the system for machining can also be applied to AM, as well as to a system combining additive and subtractive with intricate machine moves.

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