Prototyping

Panel Discusses Promise and Challenges of Both Additive and Hybrid Machines

Manufacturers ranging from orbital to underground shared their thoughts on additive manufacturing at the recent Innovation Days event.

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Metal

Additive by the Numbers

How long does it take for a company to learn to 3D print metal parts successfully? What portion of the overall manufacturing industry does additive manufacturing make up? These questions and more were answered during the nearly 200 presentations delivered at this year’s AMUG Conference.

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Highlighting Hybrid Manufacturing

The winner of the first International Additive Manufacturing Award is a company that developed a head for adding metal additive manufacturing to an existing machine tool.

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Production

FAA Clears First Additive Manufactured Part for Flight in a GE Commercial Jet Engine

A cobalt-chrome temperature sensor housing is being retrofit to GE90 engines used by Boeing.

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3D Printing and the Promise of Custom Fit

Can additive processes be used to customize wearable products to give a perfect fit to each individual? It works for ear buds….

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Validating and Qualifying

X-ray technology can validate the internal geometry of additively-manufactured parts in 3D without destroying the part.

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Design

6 Things You Might Not Know about Making Metal Parts through Additive Manufacturing

Like any other manufacturing process, additive manufacturing has process considerations all its own.

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Metal

Material Differences in Metal Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing entails material considerations so subtle as to be, well, granular.

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Tooling

Will Additive Manufacturing Play a Major Role in Aircraft Production?

One answer: It already does. Lockheed Martin discusses the challenges and promise of producing parts through 3D printing.

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Metal

Winner Named in First-Ever International Additive Manufacturing Award

Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies Ltd. will receive the inaugural International Additive Manufacturing Award (IAMA) for its innovative methodology that enables metal deposition (via laser cladding) to be integrated on a multi-axis CNC machine.

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