Fastener News Desk

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. 3D-printed automotive parts, courtesy of Ford Another interesting possibility that AM enables is greater customization. Sometimes these production delays can be in the range of months.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 1, 2023

Enables customers to drive cross-platform LPBF printing from one application. Brings automated process-to-part app development capability to metal 3D printing. Additive CAM, also known as 3D print preparation, remains a manual, time-consuming and tedious roadblock to a truly autonomous manufacturing workflow.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 29, 2023

Initially developed by a small team in Sweden, Digital Metal began as a subsidiary of Höganäs AB as a relative unknown in 3D printing. Digital Metal’s 3D metal printing machines with proprietary, high-precision binder jetting technology, required further commercialisation to get into the hands of industry.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Metal 3D printing via laser powder bed fusion is an expensive process, one which leaves little room for failure in postprocessing steps. ” Limiting machining to additive manufacturing postprocessing steps is a massive time and cost saver for KAM, but even these operations can act as bottlenecks when unoptimized.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 2, 2023

Integrate: Eliminate data exchange bottlenecks with Implicit Interop As AM parts increase in complexity, legacy design file sizes become a roadblock. nTop will continue to develop the capabilities of this new technology in future releases. nTop Implicit File (.implicit)

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The trick about 3D printing, as we’ve learned over the years, is to look at announcements with a critical eye. Numbers Print speeds, not just comparisons; give me metrics, not unquantifiable 2x/3x/5x/10x/20x/100x claims that don’t actually say anything specific Including post-processing into workflow discussion.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 15, 2023

Initially developed by a small team in Sweden, Digital Metal begun as a subsidiary of Höganäs AB as a relative unknown in 3D printing. Digital Metal’s 3D metal printing machines with proprietary, high-precision binder jetting technology, required further commercialisation to get into the hands of industry.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 26, 2024

As it is common for a company that has several injection molds to place some of those molds into storage after the production of a batch, knowing where exactly they are located could avoid production bottlenecks and optimize manufacturing processes.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2023

Get to Know Wisconsin Engraving Visit Booth 1324 , a place where mold builders and their customers can come to help alleviate their bottlenecks. A limited number of custom-engraved SPE tumblers will also be available (must be a moldmaker to receive).

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 4, 2023

For Terem, there are two major bottlenecks to the adoption of additive technologies: the sophistication and effectiveness of the technology itself and the knowledge of the end users. “I think there’s an internal driver in Australia which combines innovation culture with real manufacturing capabilities,” Terem said.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE): Analyze MyPerformance/OEE allows the important indicators to be identified for the improvement of machine or work cell utilization to eliminate production bottlenecks. At IMTS 2022, Siemens discussed 3D printing of redesigned steering knuckles on a DMG Mori Lasertec 30 Dual SLM.

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Canadian Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

One of the biggest bottlenecks in photonics is packaging, figuring out how to get light in and out of the chips in an efficient way so that they can make reliable connections,” explained Mitchell, noting that most photonic packaging solutions are costly and limited by technical challenges related to scaling.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A neutral, fully cloud-supported slicing capability removes workflow bottlenecks and potential security holes for users looking to bring in new hardware and materials capabilities to their 3D printing operations. Perhaps most meaningfully, realizable cloud support can power print farms.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This important functionality will help ensure production-scale parts are 3D printed accurately and can be inspected quickly within a closed-loop additive manufacturing process. Parts inspection in particular can be a significant bottleneck in the production process, in many cases creating delays of weeks or months.

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21st Century Tech

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck. Recently, the CBS news program, 60 Minutes , ran a piece describing the very problem with global supply chain bottlenecks in the port of Los Angeles that likely had befouled our sofabed purchase. We repainted. No problem. We then ordered it.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At the core of the QLS 820 is Nexa3D’s powerful Quantum Laser Sintering (QLS) print engine consisting of four CO 2 lasers with 100W power each that deliver 4x the print speed of other laser sintering and powder bed fusion technologies. The entire system is automation ready and designed for 24/7 lights-out operation.

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Control Engineering

MAY 1, 2023

Garlin Gilchrist, lieutenant governor of Michigan and two-time technology start-up entrepreneur and former Microsoft programmer, said Michigan helps manufacturers with 3D printing, robotics and other automation to help manufacturers grow, in comments at the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit. Courtesy: Mark T.

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