Prototyping
How Would You Make This Bracket Better?
When design constraints are taken away, what does the very best design for a given application look like?
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Video: On-Site Manufacturing in the Future
A team of students in Finland produced this video of their vision of how parts may be produced in the future. This entry won Fastems’ conceptual design competition held in honor of the company’s 30 years of building flexible manufacturing systems.
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Building Olympians, Layer by Layer
Personalized swords manufactured through 3D printing helped the Japanese fencing team take home the Silver in the 2012 Olympics.
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A Spin on Additive Manufacturing
A DMLS system from EOS enables Kappius Components to make design changes to their bike hub while experiencing reduced lead time and improved material strength.
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Landspeed Record with Laser Melting
The very first object to break the landspeed barrier of 1,000 mph is likely to be a part produced through additive manufacturing.
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Additive Manufacturing’s Opportunity in One Word
I want to say just one word to you: brackets.
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Additive Manufacturing for In-House Tooling
One of the benefits of having additive manufacturing capability in-house is that it gives the manufacturer an efficient resource for quickly producing custom devices for use in its own processes.
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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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After the Hype, the Promise Remains
I had assumed that writing about manufacturing technology would always mean writing about topics that few people appreciate. Then came additive manufacturing.
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Obstacles to the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing
Renishaw was a user of additive manufacturing before it became an OEM supplying additive manufacturing technology—specifically, laser melting systems for producing metal parts. For a metrology company to diversify into additive manufacturing machinery in this way indicates the long-term promise the company sees for this method of manufacturing.
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