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Video: 5" Diameter Navy Artillery Rounds Made Through Robot Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Instead of Forging
Big Metal Additive conceives additive manufacturing production factory making hundreds of Navy projectile housings per day.
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Video: 3D Printed Tooling Eases Cobot Integration
At NPE 2024, Universal Robots and EMI Corporation highlighted how 3D printed end effectors, fixtures and more enable adoption of collaborative robots.
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Massive Dimension Partners With ABB to Create Advanced Large-Format 3D Printers
The collaboration combines ABB’s robotics technology, including its cobots and the largest IRB 8700 model, with Massive Dimension’s process controllers and industrial extrusion tools.
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Savage Automation Delivers 3D Printed Commercial Manufacturing Aids
The company's approach to designing end-of-arm tooling and other devices has evolved over the years to support longevity and repairs.
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BMW Expands Use of Additive Manufacturing to Foster Production Innovations
The BMW Group is manufacturing many work aids and tools for its own production system using various 3D printing processes, with items such as tailor-made orthoses for employees, teaching and production aids, and large, weight-optimized robot grippers, which are used for such things as carbon fiber-reinforced polymer roofs and entire floor assemblies.
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Rivelin Robotics Leads Project CAMPFIRE to Develop Automated Postprocessing Solutions for Regulated Industries
The participating companies are working to create complete digital postprocessing solutions for the automated finishing of flight parts, orthopedic implants and gas turbine components produced using metal additive manufacturing processes.
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Video: AM for Repair of Large Shafts
Wind power shafts that might once have been scrapped are now returned to service. See the robotic directed energy deposition (DED) and shaft preheating system developed by Ikergune, Izadi and Talens.
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Robotics Integrator Leverages 3D Printing for Faster Automation Deployment
Rapid Robotics helps manufacturers get up and running with automation quickly, by providing robots that arrive pretrained and already equipped with tooling which is often 3D printed.
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Accufacture Develops Alchemist 1 Robotic AM Cell Engineered With Meltio’s Wire-Laser Metal 3D printing Technology
This all-in-one additive manufacturing robotic work cell was engineered for seamless integration and rapid deployment for the safe and reliable manufacture and repair of metal parts.
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UltiMaker Targets Light Industrial Applications With 3D Printer Designed for the Factory Floor
The company’s Factor 4 3D printer introduced this week is designed to complement conventional manufacturing equipment including CNC machining and automation.
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