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FDA Approves 3D Systems’ Orthopedic Patient-Specific Guides for Ankle Replacements
The Total Ankle Patient-Matched Guides pair with Smith+Nephew’s Total Ankle replacement solutions and are designed to help surgeons save time and ensure accuracy while performing fewer steps than standard instrumentation.
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Combining Multifunctional Thermoplastic Composites, Additive Manufacturing for Next-Gen Airframe Structures
The DOMMINIO project combines AFP with 3D printed gyroid cores, embedded SHM sensors and smart materials for induction-driven disassembly of parts at end of life.
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Colibrium Additive Upgrades EB-PBF Software for Enhanced Printer Performance, Productivity
The EBMControl 6.4 software enables support-free prints, point melt printing and elimination of start plates to optimize EB-PBF printer operations and part quality.
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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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Can AI Deliver Shapes Like Generative Design With Far Less Computation?
Ohio startup Vixiv is developing a machine learning system that will “know,” without computation, what 3D printed form satisfies a given set of needs.
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US Army Tests Additive Manufacturing for Printing Vehicle Repair Parts in the Field
Spee3D participates in successful demonstration with the Army Research Lab to validate the use of additive manufacturing for creating military vehicle repair parts in the field at the point of need.
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ASTM and EOS Expand AM Machine Operator Certification Program
The ASTM International Powder Bed Fusion – Laser Beam (PBF-LB) Machine Operator Certification program now includes both the EOS M 290 and EOS M 400 platforms.
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Former Charles Ross & Son Company President Passes Away
Richard Ross took the helm as company president in 1961 and served as a visionary leader, guiding the company through decades of growth and expansion.
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New Equipment, Additive Manufacturing for Casting Replacement and AM's Next Phase at IMTS 2024: AM Radio #54
Additive manufacturing’s presence at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show revealed trends in technology as well as how 3D printing is being applied today and where it will be tomorrow. Peter Zelinski and I share observations from the show on this episode of AM Radio.
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Video: Robot Machining Will Complement Robot DED
Robots can do additive manufacturing. Can they do hybrid manufacturing? Precision milling of metal using a robot offers this promise.
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