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John Newman · March 20, 2014 · Additive manufacturing (AM) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, driving innovation and creating new opportunities for manufacturing. New conventions dedicated to AM have begun to sprout up all over the globe, but the granddaddy in North America is SME’s RAPID conference and exposition. For nearly 25 years,…
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John Newman · March 18, 2014 · …of the time when additive manufacturing (AM) professionals and pundits talk about how 3D printing is changing the manufacturing landscape, the discussion is limited to a few complex parts. Very few companies have yet to attempt use AM to build an entire finished product, unless that product is…
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John Newman · March 14, 2014 · Additive manufacturing (AM) is poised to become an integral part of aerospace manufacturing. Major players in the industry, such as GE Aviation and Rolls Royce, have already dedicated resources to developing new ways to use AM to build engine parts, and it seems as though more companies are…
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John Newman · March 13, 2014 · …most important element in additive manufacturing (AM) is material. As is the case in most manufacturing, half of the job of building a part with AM is deciding on the proper material to use. In many cases the simplest material, plastic filament, is really only useful for prototyping…
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John Newman · March 12, 2014 · Additive manufacturing (AM) is improving the standard of living for people around the world. Quite apart from its contributions to science and industry, 3D printing is capable of offering solutions to complex medical problems. One area of particular note is the AM of prosthetics and bone reconstruction, with…
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John Newman · March 11, 2014 · …in the world of additive manufacturing (AM). That seems like a positive sign for the industry as a whole, allowing companies to focus on research and development, rather than courtroom theater. During this time of peace, new patents are finding their way to approval, and while not every…
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John Newman · March 10, 2014 · Despite the fact that additive manufacturing (AM) isn’t really a new market, the business side of the technology is still maturing. Part of that maturing process is company growth, either through the construction of new facilities, expansion of current facilities, or through acquisitions. For most companies, this is…
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John Newman · March 7, 2014 · …to take advantage of additive manufacturing (AM) at some point for a special gift, hard to find item, or just for the novelty. Print-on-demand manufacturing is a growing business, already operating at enough volume for companies such as Shapeways to build their own dedicated factories.Following the general modus…
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John Newman · March 6, 2014 · …in a physical form. Additive manufacturing (AM) operates in much the same manner. 3D printers can build nearly whatever a designer or engineer can imagine and build in a CAD program.Lego and 3D printing have been in the news a fair amount recently, following an article in the…
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John Newman · March 5, 2014 · …its way to revolutionizing manufacturing around the world. Rapid Ready provides near daily examples of breakthroughs in nearly every major manufacturing field, including automotive, aerospace and medical. While the technology has only gained some measure of popular appeal in the last few years, its roots go back 30…
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John Newman · March 4, 2014 · Medical additive manufacturing (AM) has developed into its own field. It seems like not a day passes without medical researchers discovering a new way to use the technology to either save or improve lives. Whether its low-cost prosthetics, or medical implants, AM has brought a bevy of new…
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John Newman · March 3, 2014 · …have loved to have additive manufacturing to provide rapid prototyping services for him when he was designing the Cube. The current generation of 3D puzzles, the Marusenko Sphere, was lucky enough to have 3D printing around to assist with the design and prototype phases, greatly simplifying the production…
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Kenneth Wong · March 1, 2014 · …of SolidCAM, compares computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) to a religion. “It’s something you have to devote yourself to if you want to do it well,” he says. “On our staff, we don’t have any application engineers who are not machinists. Every single one of them knows how to run…
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John Newman · February 28, 2014 · …the technological backbone of manufacturing in the US with the formation of a series of 15 public-private funded manufacturing innovation institutes throughout the country. The pilot institute, America Makes (or NAMII), opened shortly thereafter in Youngstown, OH and began to serve as a hub for high-tech manufacturing, including…
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DE Editors · February 28, 2014 · …for the probe include micro-manufacturing in the firearms, medical, dental, additive manufacturing and electronic industries or any manufacturing that involves small parts with complex geometries and tight tolerances. “The IRP40.50 works with PC-DMIS NC-Gage v2.1, the revolutionary software that simplifies CNC probe operations into simple, user-friendly instructions that…
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John Newman · February 27, 2014 · …So, when people claim additive manufacturing (AM) is slow, that too is relative. Compared to plenty of traditional manufacturing situations, AM is positively speedy.But we always want to go faster. A new partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Cincinnati, Inc. hopes to result in a 3D…
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John Newman · February 26, 2014 · …of a dental prosthesis. Additive manufacturing (AM) has reduced the wait time by producing crowns, bridges, and stone models at a rate unmatched by traditional forms of manufacturing. Less time in transit and in dental labs also means a reduction in production costs, which leads to increased profits.Stratasys…
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John Newman · February 25, 2014 · Additive manufacturing (AM) is an amazingly flexible tool. It can construct complex objects during the course of a single build that would normally require multiple other traditional manufacturing processes. No matter how remarkable, however, every technology comes with a few limitations.For AM, one limitation is the static nature…
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Beth Stackpole · February 24, 2014 · High-end 3D printing (aka, additive manufacturing) is fast becoming a fixture in the automotive design process. Now some car companies are trying to use the growing interest in consumer 3D printing to promote their car designs and manufacturing processes.The latest company to draw a connection between their car…
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John Newman · February 21, 2014 · …American phenomena.Builder, a Dutch additive manufacturing (AM) system manufacturer, has bought into the idea that size does matter in, we might say, a big way. The company’s newest 3D printer, the Big Builder, while technically a desktop model, offers what may be the largest Z-axis build envelope ever…
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