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John Newman · July 10, 2012 · Slowly but surely additive manufacturing (AM) is insinuating itself into industry. Maybe not even so slowly. The basic strengths of AM (complex internal geometries, the capability to create strong, lightweight objects) are of particular interest to aerospace companies to help reduce fuel costs and lower manufacturing expenditures.We first…
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John Newman · July 6, 2012 · It’s hard to get anything done if you don’t have the right equipment. I spent plenty of less-than-fruitful hours staring at my computer because I was interrupted on a regular basis by my wife or the dogs. The solution was a laptop that allowed me to hide in…
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John Newman · July 5, 2012 · I didn’t read a ton of Sci-Fi when I was a kid (Tolkien was more my thing), but I did read enough of it to expect to someday have cloned organs appear as an alternative to donated organs. I did not, however, expect that these organs might be…
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DE Editors · July 4, 2012 · …fused deposition modeling (FDM) additive manufacturing for production use. The initiative builds upon a collaboration that leverages ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) to foster energy efficient production using additive manufacturing materials and processes. The project aims to develop FDM additive manufacturing technology in order to make it a…
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John Newman · July 3, 2012 · Additive manufacturing (AM) is on plenty of people’s minds these days, including those in the U.S. government. In addition to the manufacturing initiative, Stratasys (Rapid Ready company profile here) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have partnered to further AM research. The partnership intends to improve Stratasys’ signature…
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John Newman · July 2, 2012 · …people familiar with the additive manufacturing (AM) industry and newcomers alike want to see the latest developments and talk with AM experts. To fill that desire for knowledge, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) holds RAPID, one of North America’s largest AM conventions. RAPID 2012 gave attendees the…
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DE Editors · July 2, 2012 · …battery with a new additive to help low-temperature performance, calorimeter testing can tell how the additive affects performance at high temperatures. “You can’t simulate that. You have to perform the testing,” Keyser says. Types of Battery Tests Functional electrical tests • Characterize the battery’s electrical capacity as a…
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John Newman · June 29, 2012 · …on the state of additive manufacturing, I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up every so often and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.Lots of additive manufacturing (AM) folks are on the road lately,…
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John Newman · June 28, 2012 · …go along with them. Additive manufacturing (AM) is one technology being investigated for use in the future.NASA is looking at using AM from a number of angles. First, as an additive technology, 3D printing requires far less space to be useful than, say, a CNC machine. It wouldn’t…
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John Newman · June 27, 2012 · The additive manufacturing (AM) landscape is chock full of different systems and processes for the creation of 3D printed objects. Some of these systems lend themselves more readily to direct industrial usage than others. This can be a result of the potential size of the build envelope available…
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John Newman · June 26, 2012 · …covered the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in such fields as automotive, aerospace, consumer and medical. You don’t hear the media talk about useful end-use products beyond gimmicks like toys or iPhone cases very often.Lipson also talked about bioprinting:“Yeah, so we’ve been quite a while working on this…
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John Newman · June 22, 2012 · Additive manufacturing (AM) has been receiving a fair amount of mainstream media coverage lately, thanks to its adoption in industries such as fashion and medical tech. Usage of 3D printing by museums or the focus on AM for the U.S. manufacturing initiative hasn’t hurt either. At this point…
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DE Editors · June 22, 2012 · …no exception.As with any manufacturing company, prototypes are a necessary step in final design. While prototyping the Abruzzi, engineers at Panoz were also up against unusual time constraints. By the time designs were finalized, the time they had to build a prototype was limited. What made things worse…
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John Newman · June 21, 2012 · …on the state of additive manufacturing, I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up every so often and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.We’ll begin in Aachen, Germany, where the International Laser Technology Congress…
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John Newman · June 20, 2012 · Different 3D printer manufacturers use different methods to improve their products. Some work on designing larger build envelopes, others seek to hone a flagship process. To paraphrase The Graduate, Objet (company profile) has one word for you: materials.Certainly the company is always looking to improve its product lines,…
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John Newman · June 19, 2012 · …of a service bureau, additive manufacturing (AM) reduces the amount of time a product or part goes from the drawing board to something that can be touched and inspected.Specialized applications of AM can be even more time reliant. At RAPID 2012 (Rapid Ready coverage here), I was introduced…
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John Newman · June 15, 2012 · …technology leadership into rapid manufacturing, optimizing these disruptive and impactful tools across an even broader array of applications, across all industries. And, through our customers, we recognized that multiple technologies and materials would be required to effectively cover their requirements today and in the future.”With the need to…
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John Newman · June 14, 2012 · A fair amount of the drive of independent 3D printer manufacturers has been to lower prices to bring the systems within fiscal reach of a broader audience. You can find several 3D printers for under $1,000 (the Solidoodle goes for $500, for example). No one expects these printers…
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John Newman · June 13, 2012 · I generally enjoy covering additive manufacturing (AM). One of the few sticky areas is process terminology. Different companies call the same process by wildly different names. For example, what Stratasys calls Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), 3D Systems calls plastic jet printing, and the RepRap community calls fused filament…
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John Newman · June 12, 2012 · …on the state of additive manufacturing, I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up once every few weeks and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.The Stratasys and Objet merger keeps inching toward completion. (Read…
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