Prototyping
3D Printed End of Arm Tooling Aids Automation
Frustrations with traditional end of arm tooling led Richard Savage to start 3D printing custom versions for injection molding applications, eventually founding a company to fill this niche.
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AddUp Opens North American HQ, A Proving Ground for Metal AM
The company welcomed visitors June 22, 2022, to its Cincinnati-area facility, showcasing its laser powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition technologies.
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EOS M 290 Basic Training App for Faster, Extended Reality Education
The EOS M 290 Basic Training app gives trainees an immersive augmented reality experience, enabling users to become familiarized with the main system components and interact with a full-size model of the EOS M 290.
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3D Systems’ SLA 750 for Cost-Effective SLA Batch Part Production
Rapid + TCT 2022: The system features the SLA 750 and SLA 750 Dual — which the company says is the first synchronous, dual-laser stereolithography printer.
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AM 101: Additive Manufacturing Materials
In processes like machining, the material is a known quantity. A part starts as a block of material, or perhaps a forging or casting. Its form changes in the machining process, but its inherent material properties are already set. In additive manufacturing, however, the material properties are being established alongside the geometry of the part.
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3D Printing Enables Mold Shop to Rapidly Prototype Medical Parts (Video)
A case study involving Mantle’s 3D printing technology allowed moldmaker Westminster Tool to go from design to injection molded prototype medical parts in three weeks.
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Five Digital Manufacturing Trends Reflected in 3D Printing and Machining: AM Radio #20
As the digitization of machining accelerates, it’s seeing more crossover with its innately digital relative, additive manufacturing. On this episode of AM Radio, Julia Hider and Matt Danford discuss common themes in machining and 3D printing.
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How 3D Printing Will Change Composites Manufacturing
A Q&A with the editor-in-chief of CompositesWorld explores tooling, continuous fiber, hybrid processes, and the opportunities for smaller and more intricate composite parts.
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PostProcess Develops Resin Removal System for Composites, Ceramics
The company says the PLM-405-SUB chemistry formulation removes both excess resin and ceramic filler residue from 3D printed parts simultaneously in one detergent.
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Parts Cleaning Conference Announces 2022 Program
Registration for the Parts Cleaning Conference is now open and includes complimentary access to all the IMTS exhibit halls.
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