Postprocessing

Sustainability

Rösler Smart Solutions Service Digitizes, Enhances Mass Finishing and Shot Blasting Processes

RSS integrates digital technologies into existing manufacturing processes, making them more transparent, efficient and responsive, offering manufacturers tangible economic and operational benefits.

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How Avid Product Development Creates Efficiencies in High-Mix, Low-Volume Additive Manufacturing

Contract manufacturer Avid Product Development (a Lubrizol company) has developed strategies to streamline part production through 3D printing so its engineering team can focus on development, design, assembly and other services. 

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Software

QuickCast Air Software Maximizes Material Removal From Casting Pattern Interiors

The software tool optimizes material removal for cleaner burnout and more efficient draining to reduce both material consumption and build times, enabling a material efficiency that has demonstrated cost competitiveness with traditional injection molded wax patterns.

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Ceramic

Formlabs Expands SLA/SLS Ecosystem With New Materials, Postprocessing Tools

The new hardware, software and materials are designed to streamline postprocessing and unlock new workflows.

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Metal

Voxel Innovations Relocates to New, Expanded Facility

The pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM) provider is using this expansion to upgrade its production capabilities as well as its laboratory, testing equipment and metrology equipment.

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Depowdering 

Solukon Upgrades SFM-AT350/-E Depowdering System to Handle Larger, Heavier Parts

The SFM-AT350/-E depowdering system can accommodate the increased weight due to an adapted arm design, which means that the chamber volume and the associated inert gas consumption remain the same.

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Postprocessing

Bodycote Initiates Expanded Production Capacity for HIP in Southeastern US

Bodycote commissioned the additional hot isostatic pressing (HIP) capacity to service the development and processing of advanced materials at its Greenville, South Carolina, plant, which is a Nadcap-accredited site and holds several core OEM approvals.

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Metal

EDM Performance Accessories’ Tilt and Slide Rail and Fixturing System Simplifies Part Removal

With a simple tilt of the plate in EDM Performance Accessories’ Tilt and Slide rail and fixturing system, the parts naturally fall away from the plate and easily drop off.

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Is Automation More Effective Than Size for Serial Production 3D Printing?

Micro Factory has developed an mSLA system that incorporates cleaning, curing and part ejection, not to mention 100 empty build plates, into the frame of a desktop machine. The result is a small unit for large-scale production.

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Aerospace

Rivelin Robotics Leads Project CAMPFIRE to Develop Automated Postprocessing Solutions for Regulated Industries

The participating companies are working to create complete digital postprocessing solutions for the automated finishing of flight parts, orthopedic implants and gas turbine components produced using metal additive manufacturing processes.

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