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A Resonant Harmony for Bell Casting and 3D Printing

When a 180-year-old bell foundry sought an alternate solution for expensive metal mold patterns, it turned to a 125-year-old company for a modern solution: large-format additive manufacturing.

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Metal

Balancing MFAM and DFAM for Metal Additive Manufacturing

For viable metal AM, users must balance design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), modifying for additive manufacturing (MfAM) and cost per kilogram.

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Polymer

nRugged 3D Printer Designed for Use in Harsh Environments

Printer offers more than 10,000 material choices and is factory configured for either 3D manufacturing or bioprinting with automatic tool changes.

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Automotive

Cumberland Additive Expands Operations to Neighborhood 91 Campus

Neighborhood 91 is the first development to both condense and connect all components of the AM/3D printing supply chain into one powerful production ecosystem.

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Metal

Desktop Metal Qualifies 316l Stainless Steel for High-Volume Manufacturing

With 316L, businesses can produce cost-effective, end-use metal parts for extreme temperature, highly corrosive applications on the world’s fastest metal 3d printing platform, the company says.

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Production

GE Aviation Switches Four Existing Cast Parts to Metal 3D Printing

GE engineers say additive manufacturing can compete with casting as its improved productivity lowers cost and slashes development time.

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Tooling

Solving MRO Challenges with Bound Metal Deposition

Three case studies reveal how Desktop Metal’s second-generation Studio System bound metal deposition printer eliminates common safety hazards of metal AM, enhancing the technique’s value for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) applications.

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Materials

Support Structures and Build Layout Lead to Series of Fails — AM: Why the Failure? #4

A 3D printed piston crown illustrates the iterative path to success often part of laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

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Binder Jet

Cummins Finalizes First Metal 3D Printed Production Part

Company is using high-precision binder jetting process to create lance tip adapter used in high horsepower engines.

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Defense

Wagner Machine Co. Creates Challenging Assembly Replacement with Velo3D Printer

Real-time monitoring of entire 3D printing process ensures mission-ready quality of high-value parts for aerospace and defense customers

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