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Essentium Research Highlights Positive Impact of 3D Printing on Reducing Carbon Emissions
The “Trends in 3D Printing at Scale” white paper summarizes the results of a third-party industry report that surveyed 170 managers and executives working at manufacturing companies with responsibility for 3D printing.
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3D Printed Preforms Improve Strength of Composite Brackets: The Cool Parts Show Bonus
On this episode, we look at a pin bracket for the overhead bin of an airplane made in two composite versions: one with continuous fiber 3D printed reinforcements plus chopped fiber material, and one molded from chopped fiber alone.
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Collins Aerospace Opens Additive Manufacturing Center Expansion in Iowa
The expansion gives the company space to house several new state-of-the-art 3D metal printers and significantly increase the center’s AM capabilities.
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Research Partners 3D Print MIM Tool With Near-Contour Cooling
Compared to a conventional approach in machining, the use of an additive manufacturing process to produce a MIM tool reduces the total production time from around 8 weeks to approximately 5 days.
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Data: The Dark (and Light) Side of Additive Manufacturing: AM Radio #41
Additive manufacturing relies on and creates large amounts of data. On AM Radio, Stephanie Hendrixson and Dr. Tim Simpson discuss concerns around protecting AM data, plus how data security can bring greater opportunities for this technology.
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Velo3D Founder on the 3 Biggest Challenges of 3D Printing Metal Parts
Velo3D CEO and founder Benny Buller offers this perspective on cost, qualification and ease of development as they apply to the progress of AM adoption in the future.
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Formnext 2023 Partners With Nordic Region Partners
The Nordic contingent will be based at the Nordic pavilion, where a special showcase of exhibits of successful AM applications is planned. Companies from the partner region will be presenting inspiring AM use cases, and the Danish AM Hub will be hosting a panel on sustainability.
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Incus Successfully Tests Lithography-Based Metal Manufacturing for Lunar Environment
The project aim was to develop a sustainable process that uses lunar resources and recycled scrap metals (eventually contaminated by lunar dust) to produce spare parts on-site which could help and enhance human settlement on the moon.
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The Arrival of the AM Factory: How Proprietary Processes Deliver Production 3D Printing
Various recent articles report on companies using internally developed technology to equip factories and deliver on the promise of AM for production.
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America Makes Announces Open Project Call Worth $6.4M in Funding
The six topical areas for the Open Project Call 2023 were initiated at AM Technology Roadmap workshops in 2021 and 2022, and focused on needs prioritized for the five topics: Design, Materials, Process, Value Chain and AM Genome.
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