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3D Digital Data, Additive Manufacturing and Medicine – The advantages and gaps

Additive Manufacturing

Take, for example, the commercialization of Invisalign dental aligners in 1999 using indirect 3D printing of forms, and the creation of patient-matched in-ear hearing aid cases by Siemens in the early 2000s, with millions of patients treated. As metal 3D printing and materials have advanced so have solutions for healthcare.

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Nature-inspired tech to move transport towards net-zero

E&T

To drive down harmful emissions, engineers are taking inspiration from nature to come up with greener technologies, including helping current forms of transport, from cars to planes, evolve and move towards net-zero. The partly 3D-printed wind-tunnel model. Electric car sales are accelerating.

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What Year Did a Robot Hand First Debut at IMTS?

Modern Machine Shop

IMTS 1960: The 1960 Machine Tool Show took place in Chicago, with a focus on adapting the electronic computer to design machines to respond to instructions coded in number form on punched or magnetic tape and transmitted electronically to servo-mechanisms that operate the machine tool. The Forming and Fabricating Pavilion was also introduced.

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How Integrated CAD/CAM Transforms Inventions Into Products

Modern Machine Shop

Services range from CNC and manual machining to robotic welding to 3D printing and custom molding. After graduating from New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he worked as a design engineer for a manufacturer of molds for composite parts.