Prototyping

3D Printing for Better Flame From a Gas Turbine Swirler: The Cool Parts Show #42

A Penn State gas turbine researcher turns to additive manufacturing graduate students to help face the challenge of swirler optimization.

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Automation

Castor, Ultimaker Integrate Technologies for Streamlining 3D Printing Process

The integration enables users to scan all of their parts at once, estimate the printability of parts with their Ultimaker printer, calculate the costs and lead time, and ultimately produce the parts directly with Ultimaker’s Digital Factory.

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Metal

Marle Group Acquires Tangible Solutions

This acquisition gives Marle Group a total of eight global production facilities which are exclusively focused on orthopedic and spine implant manufacturing for OEMs worldwide.

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Updated Definition Makes Way for AM Part Production

Additive manufacturing is finding its footing, and a new standard definition in ISO/ASTM 52900:2021 shows that AM is for more than prototyping. 

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Metal

Metal Parts Are Now Within Reach for Users of Polymer 3D Printers

An option for accessible metal 3D printing: New metal composite filament from BASF Forward AM has made it easy for Austrian company Sparox 3D to pivot its Ultimaker FFF capacity into metals, without major additional investments in skills or equipment. 

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Software

Materialise, Sigma Labs Develop Platform to Enhance Scalability of Metal AM Applications

Platform is said to deliver industry-first ability to identify and address process and quality issues in real time.

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Metal

SLM Solutions Integrates Assembrix VMS Software for Secure Remote Printing

The integration is said to enable the creation of a reliable, international AM ecosystem with new opportunities across the entire value chain.

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Supply Chain

6 Ways Additive Manufacturing Will Change in the Next Decade: AM Radio #11B

Where will additive manufacturing go in the next 10 years? Stephanie Hendrixson and Pete Zelinski offer six ideas in the latest episode of the AM Radio podcast.

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Production

What Process Should Make This Part? New Tool for Comparing Production Methods

Free tool COSMO generates apples-to-apples comparisons of manufacturing processes including 3D printing to help engineers and companies make better decisions and expand production options. 

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Production

AM So Far: A Conversation on 10 Years of Covering Additive Manufacturing: AM Radio #11A

Additive Manufacturing Media marks its 10-year anniversary. AM Radio hosts Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski look back, talking about the advance of industrial 3D printing and expansion of the ways we report on it.

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