Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 7, 2022

From patient-specific medical models and surgical guides to titanium implants, ready-to-wear prosthetics, and even bioprinted tissues, 3D printing is poised for major impact in the medical arena. There, 3D printing can get personal – truly, deeply, very literally personal. Why 3D Print in the Medical World?

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 2, 2024

The moldmaking and plastics industry faces an unprecedented labor crunch exacerbated by a fragile international supply chain and rapidly growing domestic demand. Robotics, simulation software and metal 3D printing can significantly reduce the labor required during the moldmaking process, enabling shorter lead times and lower costs.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 11, 2023

Manufacturers’ Monthly explores how SQP Engineering has progressed from a sub-contract machine shop to a manufacturing solutions hub with the help of Markforged 3D printing systems. Markforged’s 3D printed systems were the solution. The wireline counter cover, which took nine hours to print, now takes just 2.5

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In particular, 3D printing technologies are rapidly permeating the manufacturing scene. As the industry’s leading provider of end-to-end workflow automationsoftware, AMFG helps companies across industries scale their autonomous 3D printing processes. is partnering with AMFG to improve workflow in its 3D printing business.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What does that mean for the qualification of 3D printed parts? is to leverage additive manufacturing to reduce maintenance cycle times, curb supply chain backlogs, and place manufacturing capabilities at or near the point of need. Most of these printers capable of printing green bin parts are polymer.

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MEM

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SYS Systems together with industry-leading 3D printing brand Stratasys ushered in the first day of December with an array of additive manufacturing experts from across Europe. We don’t need to squeeze a certain technology into a use case where it doesn’t fit. Full line-up of speakers.

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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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E&T

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The nature of the factory floor and supply chains continues to evolve, hailing a new era of efficiency and agility driven by automation, data analytics, and interconnected systems. Innovative technologies have the potential to revolutionise every aspect of the value chain.

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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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ATS

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Greater integration and insight in supply chain and inventory functions. Another reason behind digital transformation in steel industry businesses is the ongoing need to improve profit margins, especially in the face of rising supply chain and shipping costs. Virtual prototyping. Lean manufacturing.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When it comes to 3D printing, there’s a lot of advice floating in the ether regarding best approaches to new projects. Well, 3D printing is 3D printing. Besides, calling a product “3D printed” is sexy. If, though, you need a lot of the same thing made – don’t 3D print it just because you can.

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Fastener News Desk

MARCH 29, 2024

Naturally, then, Strandquist views AM through the lens of managing what many would consider the least exciting area of global supply chains. They may be dull as dirt, but they’re also in everything: “What makes us a unique fit is two things,” began Strandquist.

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Control Engineering

JULY 17, 2023

It can help manufacturers improve nearly any aspect of operations and supply chain in a way that’s unique to their needs. project is different, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, such projects can be difficult to plan and implement. The blessing and the curse of Industry 5.0 is that it’s an open-ended concept.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Dielenberg, along with co-founder Scott Anderson, is looking to scale equipment offering in the Coburg North facility, which includes a wood workshop, welding bay, laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, bronze forge, spray booth and co-working fabrication space. The fabrication space is a valuable asset inside the studio.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Trends and technologies such as microfactories, automation, on-demand production, and more are creating a new reality where local and onshore manufacturing can fit into the overall logistics puzzle along with offshore applications to maximize flexibility, resiliency and profitability. This strategy is no longer viable or profitable.

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Additive Manufacturing

JULY 20, 2022

What we’ve seen is heavy use of additive in form and fit prototyping. The applications that you’re seeing and applying for new products, is that utilizing design for additive manufacturing or relying on supply chain? We see the supply chain is catching up. Kevin Baughey : There’s two dimensions.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 30, 2023

Aerospace company Sidus Space has recognised additive manufacturing’s capability as a highly effective tool to optimise weight in systems designed to reach space, with the development of a 3D-printed satellite set to launch in 2023. To be fit for launch in 2023, the satellite, dubbed as LizzieSat, cannot weigh more than 100 kilograms.

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AU Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The goals are the same, namely to make end-use products that conform to design intent and are fit for purpose repeatably and cost-effectively. Hence the proliferation of quite inexpensive desktop 3D printing machines that provide sufficiently accurate rapid prototypes that do the job without needing to be pitch perfect.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

I almost ran my car off the road, when you look at the supply chain, and be able to say, hey, each region, every country in the world today, we need to make sure that we secure our own interests. So it was really optimizing a supply chain, a low-cost supply chain.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 18, 2024

You look at it now, Europe was six years ahead and the US was four or so, and now everything that is going up on SpaceX, Blue Origin and other programs is 3D printed, Australia is starting to become like that,” he said. If we could continue getting people like this in the door we would be very happy.”

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 25, 2024

We organized the conferences to fit into focused blocks of time that give visitor and exhibitor personnel more schedule flexibility,” says Bonnie Gurney, vice president – strategic content and partnerships for AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, which owns and produces IMTS. The conference schedule runs from Monday, Sept.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 28, 2023

They include pragmatic and logistical considerations about supply chain distribution, concerns about intellectual property theft, the loss of brand reputation and customer loyalty, as well as what a former guest on the series called feelings of economic patriotism. So 10 years ago, supply chain was a concern for us.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2023

As is fitting to a manufacturing market leader, Haier started their digital transformation journey as early as 2017. They created COSMOPlat, an industrial internet platform to digitalize all factory processes including supply chain and logistics workflows. Figure 10: Case study Haier summary.

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Additive Manufacturing

AUGUST 27, 2022

TriTech’s unique array of three production technologies includes 3D binder jet printing, metal injection molding and investment casting. The 3D printing is the latest addition, and the binder jet process is a unique cutting-edge manufacturing process for producing complex titanium parts.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 12, 2023

Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, brings partners across the supply chain together, bringing energy and excitement to the show floor. Supplying major automobile manufacturers across North America and supporting the molding for some of the longest-running models, U.S.-based Minco builds molds in the U.S.,

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 15, 2023

This shock shattered the fragile supply chains of various manufacturing industries and even caused the halting of production lines in some cases. the wire diameter, representing the lower wall thickness limit for wire 3D printing. Typical bead widths for wire correspond to 1.2x

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Fastener News Desk

JULY 17, 2023

After almost three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and related supply chain problems, the supply situation is improving for the Group. On the other hand, companies such as Würth Elektronik eiSos, manufacturers of fittings and the Trade unit are affected by the global economic slowdown. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co.

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Additive Manufacturing

APRIL 18, 2023

Stratasys is a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions. Through smart and connected 3D printers, polymer materials, a software ecosystem, and parts on demand, Stratasys solutions deliver competitive advantages at every stage in the product value chain.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 23, 2023

When we launched this show a couple of years ago, we focused on the key topics that drive our conversations about US manufacturing, the 2000s era collapse of our manufacturing workforce, controversy surrounding automation, supply chain problems that COVID-19 put in the spotlight. We need to make sure that everything fits.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They decided upon this is going to be a good fit. Obviously, we have seen through the COVID pandemic, that supply chain, how integral it is part of our day to day lives. They don't have to source it from manufacturer and then supply, but we want to do it all here. That's the way India functioned 25 years ago.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 6, 2023

We are telling different stories about companies that have made choices to locate manufacturing in the United States, or keep manufacturing in the US and Starrett fits that second category. And you saw a lot of that happened during the pandemic, we had supply chain issues, and we had suppliers going out of business.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 17, 2023

by-19.7’, the system fits easily on almost any shop floor. www.durr.com Strategic Collaboration Strengthens Metal AM Capabilities An example part that was 3D printed on the Xerox ElemX machine, powered by the SINUMERIK 840D sl control system from Siemens. With compact external dimensions measuring less than 19.7’-by-19.7’,

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

So far, we've heard from people whose motivations range from what we might call economic patriotism, to supply chain concerns, to negative experiences manufacturing in lower cost countries. But it's also about supply chain, and running a smooth supply chain in the amount of time it takes to get work out of out of from overseas.

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Control Engineering

MAY 1, 2023

Benefits of digital transformation can include increased energy efficiency and sustainability, process visibility, quality, speed to market, lower costs, easier workflow and supply chain integration, improved safety and other advantages. Courtesy: Mark T. Digitalization helps manufacturers rethink what they make, how and why.

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