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How wear-resistant polymers unlock 3D printing design and production

Design World

Improvements in additive manufacturing materials and processes make creating production-grade, functional wear parts possible while unlocking greater design flexibility. Historically, the choice between injection molding and additive manufacturing has been clearcut when it comes to producing functional plastic parts.

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Cross-Functional Group Targets Metal 3D Printing Design, Engineering Services

Mold Making Technology

Source: The Plastek Group The Plastek Group is a cross-functional group of engineers covering multiple disciplines, from package development, mold design/manufacturing and molding/assembly, with an emphasis on collaboration and quality.

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Protolabs Expands 3D Printing Capacity and Capabilities

Automation World

has been added to address growing demand for direct metal laser sintering services—an industrial metal 3D printing process that can build functional metal parts within a week. A new facility in Raleigh, N.C.,

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Berkeley space team has “Eureka” moment with 3D printing

Design World

3D printing made sense for creating a part that could combine functionalities. It […] The post Berkeley space team has “Eureka” moment with 3D printing appeared first on Design World.

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MIT researchers develop 3D-printed heart that functions like a real one

AU Manufacturing

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a method for 3D printing a soft and flexible replica of a patient’s heart in the hopes of helping doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and function.

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RESEARCHERS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH IN FUNCTIONAL HUMAN TISSUE 3D PRINTING

WORCON

A team of scientists from the University of Sydney and the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) at Westmead have leveraged 3D photolithographic printing to fabricate functional human tissues that accurately mimic an organ’s architecture.

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Particles: Enabling More Functionality to 3D Printing Filaments

Additive Manufacturing

/November 29, 2022 – Purdue University researchers have developed a patent-pending method to add particles to filament and disperse them evenly through a traditional fused deposition modeling, or FDM, 3D printer, which will aid industry in manufacturing functional parts. Brittany Newell and Jose M.