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Brian Albright · January 8, 2015 · …of 3D printing and additive manufacturing innovations. In fact, the technology's presence at International CES has doubled since 2014, with even more vendors in the 3D Printing Marketplace. There was also a full 3D printing conference track featuring speakers from Shapeways, MakerBot, 3D Hubs, Formlabs and Autodesk. Here's…
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John Newman · January 2, 2015 · …while now to push additive manufacturing (AM) into larger formats. It isn’t enough that the technology is capable of building almost any design that can be conceived, it has to be able to super-size them too. It’s almost enough to make one think 3D printing was born in…
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Jamie Gooch · January 1, 2015 · …and advances expected in additive manufacturing and industrial automation paint an amazing picture of the future. But what is the role of the design engineer in such a future? The current levels of automation in manufacturing didn’t cause the massive unemployment that many predicted, but it is often…
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Brian Albright · January 1, 2015 · …evolving 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions.When Airbus Group Innovations partnered with EOS to compare rapid investment casting and direct metal laser sintering for the production of an Airbus A320 nacelle hinge bracket, they found that using direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) to build the hinge out of…
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Pamela Waterman · January 1, 2015 · …dimensions and the requisite manufacturing necessities of fillets and chamfered edges. That’s the premise behind Inspire, the concept design package dedicated to lightweighting from solidThinking, an Altair company. “We position Inspire as a concept design tool, not a detailed CAD tool,” says Jason Napolitano, solidThinking executive vice president…
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John Newman · January 1, 2015 · …as one singular part. Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is bringing about a revolution. As the technology matures, the value in AM continues to move past rapid prototyping to full-scale production of end-use parts. Some companies have already embraced the revolution and begun to shift the focus…
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Beth Stackpole · December 30, 2014 · What does an astronaut do when they need a ratchet wrench during a mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? Turns out, they can now 3D print said wrench or any other similar part thanks to a recent experiment between NASA and Made in Space, a company contracted…
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John Newman · December 30, 2014 · …time-consuming and expensive traditional manufacturing processes, we can simply print out a new set,” said Buddy Byrum, VP of product and channel management, 3DS. “The dovetailing of 3D scanning and design with the ProJet 5500X multi-material 3D printing allowed for the creation of complete prosthetics printed in a…
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Brian Albright · December 29, 2014 · We’ve written about the ways 3D printing is helping improve the design and production of prosthetics before. The technology is important, but efforts in the 3D printing and maker community to develop lower-cost prostheses for those in need are even more innovative.There are now several organizations applying 3D…
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Brian Albright · December 26, 2014 · 3D printing is being used in healthcare to do everything from printing medical implants to potentially even generating new human tissue, but it has proven especially helpful in surgical settings by allowing doctors to create detailed models that aid them in modeling and mapping complex procedures in advance.Face…
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Jess Lulka · December 23, 2014 · …printing and short run manufacturing. This month, the company celebrated their 20th year in business.The company, according to a release, has continued expansion with a new manufacturing facility this year. The organization offers stereolithography, fused deposition modeling, PolyJet printing, direct laser metal sintering, selective laser sintering, computer numerically…
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Brian Albright · December 23, 2014 · 3D bioprinting could potentially help relieve the long backlog of patients waiting for organ transplants, and a number of organizations and companies are developing ways to create new organs out of printed human tissue.Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and Yale School of Engineering…
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Brian Albright · December 22, 2014 · Doctors and hospitals continue to come up with innovative new ways to use 3D printing to improve patient care. With 3D imaging, surgeons can now generate custom medical implants that can save lives. A traditional stent, placed next to two custom printed stents. Image: George Cheng, Beth Israel…
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Pamela Waterman · December 19, 2014 · …initial concept into final manufacturing. Gaining that experience often takes years to achieve, but Jacob Skaggs, a recent college graduate and project engineer at Century Elevators in Houston, TX, got an accelerated start. While on a manufacturing engineering internship at Invent-a-Part, a Utah service bureau, he did CAD…
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DE Editors · December 17, 2014 · …solutions to target both Additive and Subtractive manufacturing,” said Joe Anand, president and CEO of MecSoft Corporation. “As we see both of these manufacturing technologies increasingly start to coexist in shops across the world, MecSoft is uniquely positioned to offer solutions to meet the requirements of such customers.”For…
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Brian Albright · December 17, 2014 · …Group Tissue Engineering and Additive Manufacturing (TEAM) lab.The Shah TEAM discussed their work at the Materials Research Society’s Fall Meeting & Exhibit earlier in December. According to the presentation abstract:Unlike other non-elastomeric binding materials used in powder-based fabrication, the rapid precipitation of elastomer from the solvents upon extrusion…
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John Newman · December 16, 2014 · …who like to talk about additive manufacturing (including yours truly) tend to go on about the flexibility and freedom of design 3D printing brings to a business. AM is a transformative technology, and is shifting the manner in which products are manufactured by democratizing (another buzz word) the…
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John Newman · December 15, 2014 · …of any industry, and additive manufacturing (AM) is no different. What is different is that, until fairly recently, most of the 3D printing hardware R&D was being performed by AM insiders.That trend may be changing. Marvell, a global provider of microprocessor architecture and digital signal processing, has developed…
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John Newman · December 15, 2014 · Additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the course of manufacturing, not simply because of its ability to form complex geometries in a manner that would be impossible for traditional manufacturing methods, but also because it offers new methods for building multi-material objects. Rather than requiring multiple processes that might…
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Brian Albright · December 12, 2014 · Two very important tech players are teaming up, and could have a big impact on the 3D printing space. HP announced it will integrate Autodesk’s Spark Platform into its Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printers.According to the announcement, the combination of the two technologies will allow users to “access…
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