i4.0 today

APRIL 4, 2023

Asked whether electronics is a ‘digital technology’, almost everyone would reply in the affirmative. However, while printed circuit boards (PCBs) enable digital technologies, the manufacturing processes used to produce them are still largely analog. Why Do We Need Digital Electronics Manufacturing?

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 2, 2023

From the start, the company embraced the benefits of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Initially, that involved 3D printing metal tool components, details and geometries that would otherwise need to be EDM’d. Last year, Linear merged with on-demand digital manufacturer Shapeways Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

However, with MIAD which employs the additive manufacturing (AM) process, Next Chapter is said to be able to slash that timeline from weeks or months to hours, while maintaining the same high quality and tolerance standards of conventional molds. New Metal 3D Printing System Accelerates Mold Insert Production.

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