Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 18, 2024

Source | Alpine Advanced Materials Alpine Advanced Materials (Alpine), a custom-engineering and part manufacturer in industries like aerospace and defense , space and emerging transportation, leveraged a new prototyping process utilizing a dissolvable mold for high-performance injection molded composites.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Markforged has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing for the past 10 years, helping manufacturers revolutionise the industrial production landscape by bringing 3D printing right to the factory floor. A year later, the company launched Eiger, its cloud- based 3D printing software.

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Additive Manufacturing

JULY 28, 2022

July 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While companies across the world rise to the challenges affecting supply chains, a transformation in technology and innovation is shifting the manufacturing paradigm. AM delivers agility, consolidation and savings on lead-times, costs and resources. 3D Printing in Action.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It presents an opportunity to strengthen local economies, improve supply chain resilience, and enhance long-term competitiveness. Developing Logistical Expertise A well-trained workforce is key to supporting reshored supply chains. However, the path to successful reshoring is not without its challenges.

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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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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In recent years additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and materials have evolved into being able to achieve industrial-grade parts production, which means AM parts are now entering the supply chain. Angeline Goh, additive manufacturing technology lead for Shell agrees. “We Inventory for these OEMs is also a concern.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The expression “supply chain issues” is familiar to all Australians, from the manufacturer whose production line has stalled awaiting parts from an overseas supplier to the housewife walking past empty shelves in her local supermarket. AM had a role to play here,” said Elving. Reduced inventory levels are a key benefit of AM. “The

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 10, 2025

Never forget to order parts on time or fail to notice a late delivery from your vendor. Generate accurate cost and lead time estimates and provide customers with quick quotes. Easily create manufacturing orders and schedule them automatically according to resource availability or delivery deadline.

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AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The expression “supply chain issues” is familiar to all Australians, from the manufacturer whose production line has stalled awaiting parts from an overseas supplier to the housewife walking past empty shelves in her local supermarket. Media Release by Markforged. AM had a role to play here,” said Mr Elving. .

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Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Source: Hurco Market Dynamics and Business Strategies Reshoring trends are leading to increased emphasis on domestic production in many markets. This shift is driven by concerns over supply chain resilience and a desire for greater control over quality and lead times. Source: CGS North America Inc.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2024

AI’s ability to learn from data in the ERP system and outside sources enables decision-makers to formulate deeper and more accurate predictions regarding customers, buying habits, inventory levels, markets, material purchasing and more. Supply Chain Management Supply chain disruptions can cause serious problems.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Source: (top left) Boucherie, (top right) TK Mold & Engineering, (bottom left) Emuge-Franken, (bottom right) Plastic Ingenuity The top ten most-viewed articles in January were not only a testament to what our readers took an interest in—they reflect what is trending in our small but mighty world of moldmaking. Dapra Corp.,

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“My hat is off to our entire team of determined innovators, passionate engineers, and experienced marketers for bringing to market an industry leading thermoplastic production platform that fully delivers on our ultrafast brand promise,” said Avi Reichental, co-founder, and CEO, Nexa3D. “

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 5, 2023

In its pure form copper is relatively soft; for the more advanced 3D-printing purposes it’s usually mixed with other metals into alloys that provide enhanced mechanical properties along with that valuable conductivity. It was essentially a powder looking for a process, for years—before it found its niche in 3D printing.” Cleland

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

Jeremy Michael, Global Director of Product Management : At that time we were building, I want to say 30 different machine models in Taiwan. 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.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Photo Credit: MMT “As part of this transition, AM is becoming an integrated process, not an isolated process (read “ A 3D Printing Retrospective ”),” says Fletcher. Now, manufacturers are integrating AM as part of a bigger value chain. . Fortunately, we can apply technology to solve those problems.”

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Dinesh Mishra

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For example, the US and Japanese machine tool industries have seen varying levels of demand, which can impact the global supply chain and market dynamics. Additionally, we are exploring advancements in technologies such as diamond turning, high precision, hard part turning, 3D printing, laser cutting, wood working, SPMs etc.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Additive Manufacturing: The rise of additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, is influencing traditional machine tool manufacturers. They use additive techniques to produce complex geometries, customized tools, and tool components with reduced lead times and enhanced performance characteristics.

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MESA

MAY 26, 2023

manufacturing base as the technology enables shorter lead times, mass customization, energy reduction, complex shapes, and production of parts on demand providing benefits to both new acquisitions and legacy systems. AM is of significant interest to the U.S. AM is of significant interest to the U.S.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 4, 2024

Source: AMT A Hands-On Summit This year’s Summit will take place on Level 2 of the East Building, closer to the hustle and bustle of the main show itself. The mobile labs will offer students demonstrations of production technologies such as desktop machine tools and 3D printing.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

It also reduced maintenance costs, tool costs (30-40%) and tooling lead times (20-30%). This is unfortunate since tool production — especially hard/metal tools — can have long lead times and add considerable cost to the bottom line. Photo Credit: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Mold in a Day Technology Slashes Tool Production, Eliminates Supply Chain Headache. Next Chapter Manufacturing highlights its transformative “ Mold in a Day ” (MIAD) technology to accelerate the injection molding process, meeting the challenge of supply chain disruptions. Photo Credit: Addifab, Nexa3D.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 6, 2023

Starrett: In methods, some of what we do is lean the process, we look for process improvements to make it safer for the operator to save money to save lead time to develop new products to assist in that, to update blueprints to just offer any support. Sarah Fox, Methods Engineer at L.S. And we're still wrestling with some of that.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Source: SAEKI Global supply chains are under increasing pressure, and manufacturing costs continue to rise. Industries such as aerospace, automotive, and construction face long lead times and high costs for large-format components due to fragmented supply chains and labor-intensive processes.

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