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Polymer

Video: 3D Printed Hand Tools in Action on Pella Corporation Factory Tour

Examples include an invention for quickly installing window and door weather stripping, a fitting for giving the proper angle to a nail gun, and a clip for which the color is an important feature.

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Medical Molder Relies on 3D Printing to Speed Development of Inspection Fixtures

Medical molder Medbio uses FFF and SLA 3D printers in designing (and sometimes producing) its inspection fixtures.

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Robots

Custom Molder Applies Polymer, Metal 3D Printing for Productivity Gains

Custom injection molder Westec Plastics Corp. uses 3D printed end-of-arm tooling for automation as well as inserts printed in metal.

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Robots

Forerunner 3D Supports Automation with 3D Printed EOAT

The custom 3D printing company uses 3D printing in combination with other technologies to deliver end of arm tooling for part handling.

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Automation

How 3D Printing Aids Automation, and How Additive Will Reach Farther With Robots: AM Radio #55

Robots & Autonomy editor Julia Hider joins the AM Radio podcast for an episode all about the ways that 3D printing and robotics are advancing and assisting each other. 

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Polymer

3D Printed Polymer EOAT Increases Safety of Cobots

Contract manufacturer Anubis 3D applies polymer 3D printing processes to manufacture cobot tooling that is lightweight, smooth and safer for human interaction.

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3D Printed Calibration Fixtures for Ultrasonic Flowmeters

Calibrating industrial flowmeters requires temporarily attaching equipment to pipes to check the flow and make adjustments. Emerson shares how 3D printed fixtures can simplify the connection and make calibration faster, easier and more accurate.

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Design

3D Printing Solutions to Support Investment, Sand Casting

3D Systems is highlighting a design strategy for better investment casting patterns, as well as a new machine suitable for the production of patterns for sand casting. 

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Metal

The Connector Conundrum: 3D Printed Mold Tooling’s Role in Innovation

ReelView Fishing faced an electronics obstacle in the development of its new technology for underwater video. Additive manufacturing for moldmaking allowed for the speed necessary to iterate to a solution. How inventors and invention will benefit from new ways of obtaining production-ready tooling.

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