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November 18, 2025 · The validation marks a milestone in the companies' collaboration, helping advance industrial-scale AM through open, integrated software-hardware ecosystems.
June 3, 2025 · NASA is collaborating with 3D Systems, Penn State and Arizona State on new heat mitigation solutions for spacecraft. The project involves 3D Systems' DMP solutions, Oqton software, and new shape memory alloys.
May 30, 2025 · These tools (and their respective new capabilities) are designed to enhance how engineers prepare and share their designs with the manufacturing team that outputs the final print.
April 17, 2025 · Trade-offs in design complexity and post-processing cost.
January 24, 2025 · Collaboration between Daimler Truck | Daimler Buses, 3D Systems, Oqton, and Wibu-Systems yields remote spare part production solution, protecting Daimler Buses’ intellectual property through digital rights management.
September 6, 2024 · A hallmark of modern design practices, simulation is now being applied to manufacturing process planning to boost product quality, drive efficiencies and lessen potential risks.
August 27, 2024 · Oqton Build Quality integrates with EOSCONNECT Core library for in-situ IoT and image analysis, according to companies.
April 22, 2024 · Decentralized production models increase security and risk exposure of standard design intellectual property and additive manufacturing process parameters and recipes.
February 6, 2024 · The 2023 Formnext show was a hotbed of new announcements, many leveraging AI to ensure consistent print quality and traceability for production-scale applications.
August 1, 2023 · Advances in artificial intelligence, in-situ monitoring and process control are picking away at longstanding concerns about additive manufacturing part quality, but more work needs to be done.
May 16, 2023 · As production-scale AM gains traction, process simulation and in-situ monitoring are keys to consistent quality and optimized performance for 3D-printed parts.
May 4, 2023 · Companies combine lsoftware and 3D printers to deliver application-specific metal additive manufacturing solutions.
May 2, 2023 · DfAM is the key to reducing post-processing burden.
April 27, 2023 · Combining Oqton and CASTOR software yields a solution for part selection, preparation, optimization and production planning when analyzing manufacturing for additive opportunities.
April 1, 2023 · Planning and scheduling for additive manufacturing at a factory scale opens up an incredible array of possibilities, but also corresponding challenges. At the top of those challenges is the fact additive manufacturing - or colloquially 3D printing - tends to get hung up on a single, time-consuming step.
March 14, 2023 · Software platform to be offered under Oqton brand, providing factory-floor workflow integration, automation, control, and optimization.
February 28, 2023 · Machine learning drives new industry automation.
February 3, 2023 · Oqton is part of Valk Welding’s Automatic Robot Programming (ARP) solution for high-mix, low-volume production.
October 27, 2022 · Lower cost offerings and AI-enabled automation help streamline scan-to-print workflows in light of more interest in reverse engineering and quality assurance use cases.
May 26, 2022 · Companies will blend expertise in automation and additive manufacturing to offer improved productivity and traceability, companies say.