Metal

Mold Tooling

Video: Moldmaker Succeeding with Conformal Cooling

B&J Specialty now complements its machining capabilities with metal 3D printing for making mold inserts with cooling channels that follow the contours of the mold. The shop is even revisiting challenging molds from the past.

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Video: 3 Roles for Computer Vision in Metal 3D Printing

Carnegie Mellon University professor Elizabeth Holm explains three ways computer vision can advance powder-bed metal 3D printing.

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Materials

Roush Takes Delivery of Large-Scale Powder-Bed System

The company's investment in additive manufacturing equipment includes the Xline 2000R, said to be the largest powder-bed metal AM system available.

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Sodick Releases Material Recovery System (MRS)

The Automatic Material Recovery System (MRS) is designed for use with Sodick’s OPM metal 3D printing system.

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Sintavia Breaks Ground on Advanced Manufacturing Plant

The Hollywood, Florida, facility will employ lean manufacturing principles for large-scale metal additive manufacturing.

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With Machine Learning, We Will Skip Ahead 100 Years

Machine learning or AI will prove vital to the advance of AM. Computational power will enable additive to advance much faster than if it had been invented in an earlier time.

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Computer Vision System Automates Characterization of Metal Powder

A computer vision system that has learned to classify metal powders could speed material qualification and advance machine learning in additive manufacturing.

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Desktop Metal Begins Shipping Studio System

Metal 3D printing systems have been sent to early pioneer customers across industries.

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Machining

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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Production

Adira AddCreator Builds Large Parts with Tiled Laser Melting (TLM)

The additive manufacturing system is intended for the production of large-size metallic parts.

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