Tooling
For Automated Machining Business, 3D Printing’s Value-Add Keeps Adding Up
Through robot grippers, assembly aids, custom kits and coolant hardware, additive manufacturing impacts every stage of production.
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3D Printing Reduces Time, Cost of Building Molds for Composites
Massivit 3D’s cast-in-motion technology uses a 3D printed gel to expedite production and lower costs associated with making molds for large, fiber-reinforced composite parts.
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Reshoring, Tooling, Sustainability and More: Top 10 Stories of 2021: AM Radio Episode #9B
Reviewing our most-viewed stories of the year revealed some of the topics that have been top-of-mind for additive manufacturers. Read or listen to the countdown.
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Binder Jetting Is Also a Tooling Technology
A portfolio of 3D printing solutions involving infiltrated sand and metal covers tooling needs for casting, thermoforming, molding and composites.
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SLM Solutions Outfits MacLean Additive for Serial Production
MacLean Additive is the additive manufacturing startup within MacLean-Fogg Component Solutions, a Top 100 supplier to the North American automotive industry.
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Finland Sees Swifter Castings Through Hybrid Manufacturing
Combining sand 3D printing with casting has enabled Hetitec Oy to meet the underserved small-batch Finnish casting market — in some cases, producing high-priority parts in under a week.
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The Way Ahead for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Tooling today, production tomorrow. The capability will advance as value is increasingly seen in lead time savings and design opportunities. Parts that today are cast offer a particularly promising application for a process that is “welding, except not.”
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ExOne Launches X1 Tooling Industrial-Grade 3D Printed Tooling Solutions
X1 Tooling offers manufacturers fast, affordable and local tooling options for the final production of metal, plastic and composite designs.
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Automotive Tech Center Sees Benefits and Challenges of AM
The Nissan Technical Center leads Nissan’s work with additive manufacturing. While it has found uses for AM, it maintains a cautious approach to what the technology can currently accomplish.
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Is AM in Competition With Conventional Manufacturing? Tooling Is on Conventional’s Side
Recent articles consider the other way additive manufacturing is advancing production: not by 3D printing parts, but in the ways 3D printed tooling makes casting, machining, molding and other processes better.
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