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Production

Tackling Traceability in Production AM

PrintParts’ experience as New York City’s prime contractor for 3D printed nasal swabs shows how traceability, such as the company’s SmartParts solution, can address challenges and improve production.

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Software

AddUp Partners With Interspectral for Melt Pool Monitoring System

The system reduces quality inspection costs and improves efficiency by tracking in real-time both power and emissivity drifts.

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Software

Formlabs’ Automation Ecosystem Enables Automated 3D Printer Fleets

The Form Auto, Fleet Control software and High-Volume Resin System features enable users to increase 3D printing output, thereby reducing cost per part without adding operational complexity.

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Metal

Desktop Metal Expands Metal Binder Jet Lineup With Shop System+, Shop System Pro

A turnkey metal 3D printing system, the Shop System is an affordable, closed material printer that delivers reliable results with optimized powders, proven parameters and Live Sinter simulation and scanning software.

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Software

Authentise Flows Workflow Software Features Expanded Capabilities

The data-driven engineering and manufacturing workflow management suite is available in two versions — one for additive manufacturing and the other for nonadditive applications.  

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Postprocessing

Materialise Expands CO-AM Platform With 7 Technology Partners, Magics Integration

With the addition of the seven new partners, Materialise says it delivers on the promise to connect and automate all steps of the AM process, including automating design, labeling, machine monitoring and postprocessing.

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Software

Saint-Gobain, AMT Partner to Fuel 3D Printing Postprocessing Growth

The companies will apply the Norton application technologies and systems approach to enable the development of a Technology Upgrade Package (TUP) for AMT’s PostPro chemical vapor smoothing (CVS) process.

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Automation

Formnext 2022: Ceramics, Robots and Other Perspectives From Near and Far: AM Radio #30

The 2022 edition of Formnext revealed more options and applications for 3D printed ceramics, anticipation of coming automation, established companies entering AM and more. Two editors — one present at the show, and one observing from a distance — compare notes in this episode of AM Radio. 

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Automation

PC-Based Automation Supports Solid-State Metal 3D Printing

Meld Manufacturing’s 3D printing equipment based on friction stir welding is supported and enabled by flexible automation, motion control and EtherCAT technologies from Beckhoff.

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LPBF

Dyndrite End-User Software Expands Development for LPBF Machines

System supports multioptic build strategy operations and laser parameter control limited only by vendor openness.

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