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Mold Tooling

Video: Additive Manufacturing at Linear Mold

The company uses 3D printing to create conformal-cooling mold inserts in addition to production parts.

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Metal

Video: World’s Largest Additive Metal Manufacturing Plant

GE Aviation facility in Italy will have capacity for 60 machines making metal production parts through additive manufacturing.

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Metal

Cracking the Code to Growth in AM

It takes more than machines on the shop floor to push additive manufacturing to the next level. According to one manufacturer, it takes customer service, education and training, too.

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Production

Smoothing the Way for Production 3D Printing

In additive manufacturing of end-use parts, attention turns to the secondary steps.

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Production

Enabling Factors for Additive Manufacturing

In an interview with GE Capital, GE Global Research Center technology director Christine Furstoss was asked what factors will determine the speed of adoption of additive manufacturing into mass production applications. She described four.

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Production

The Additive Future

If additive manufacturing of end-use parts becomes routine, the ways we think about industrial production will change.

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Production

Slideshow: Additive Manufacturing Technology at Euromold 2013

A noticeable shift at the show this year was greater emphasis on 3D printing for production applications. This year’s show also saw established makers of conventional manufacturing equipment exhibiting their own new additive manufacturing machines.

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Production

Additive Manufacturing for Production Medical Parts

Various manufacturers have medical products in full production using additive manufacturing.

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Implants

Latest Issue of AM: Seeing is Believing

A photo essay documents the types of parts that are possible with an additive production process. The parts come from a medical manufacturing company that is now using additive manufacturing to create implants and instruments that would have been impossible or impractical to create by any other means.

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Production

Rapid Show Reveals Interest in Additive Manufacturing for Production

Interest in additive manufacturing was evident at last week’s Rapid show in Pittsburgh.

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