Additive Manufacturing

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mass customization and personalization are quite different, however, from a manufacturing perspective. Within additive manufacturing, personalization is often seen, but mass customization less frequently. SOURCE: Formlabs. Hasbro Selfie Series allows customers to put their face on action figures.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 25, 2024

“Using advanced pulsed-GMAW equipment, EWI can work with end users to develop custom waveforms for the arc DED and the alloys associated with additive manufacturing,” says Michael Carney, Senior Engineer at EWI. It is faster than other methods of additive manufacturing, extremely accurate, and can fabricate large-scale parts.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2024

Source: Brinkman Automation Automation, and cobots in particular, promise to relieve workers from tedious and repetitive tasks so they can focus on more complex and value-added activities. With over 25 years of manual deburring expertise, it soon became apparent that the natural fit was for Brinkman.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 18, 2024

Starting as a small business in 1988, Amiga has grown into a leading manufacturer in the country, providing advanced manufacturing services to a range of industries. Amiga has made significant investments in additive manufacturing, which has enabled it to create complex geometries and intricate designs with great precision.

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Additive Manufacturing

MARCH 13, 2023

Determine Technologies + Materials That Fit Within Your Addressable Market After a thorough investigation of your target audience, the next step is to determine which additive technologies and materials will best solve their challenges. The goal is to get on the first page of search results.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With 3D printing beginning to finally have the impact on manufacturing that was expected some 30 years ago, manufacturers remain wary of truly capitalising on it. Additive Assurance is looking to change that. Fatigue failures happen for two main reasons in additive manufactured parts according to Jurg.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 8, 2025

Conformal cooling is one of additive manufacturing’s well-known applications, where the technology’s geometric capabilities can enable the precise placement of cooling channels throughout an injection mold. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, for PTXPO 2025 held March 18-20. See a demonstration here.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 27, 2022

Additive Manufacturing Insights. Texas A&M University has developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tissue, which is needed for the ink used in 3D printing, or additive manufacturing.

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Additive Manufacturing

AUGUST 27, 2022

The 3D printing is the latest addition, and the binder jet process is a unique cutting-edge manufacturing process for producing complex titanium parts. “There is no one-technology-fits-all when manufacturing titanium precision parts to produce the best performance characteristics,” said Swenson.

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iBASEt

JUNE 7, 2022

And why do manufacturers need digital tools like a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to be successful? The Advantages of Additive. 3D printing in manufacturing, also called additive manufacturing, is becoming a key component of agile production in life sciences.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

Source: MetalQuest From the earliest days of automation at IMTS featuring a robot hand moving parts, there has been a massive evolution in technology. So how can you decide where automation fits best in your business? Source: AMT. Source: AMT. “What is the definition of automation?”

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 3, 2022

It is where the normally invisible decision makers are often to be seen presenting at a conference or walking the exhibition floor, giving the opportunity to hear the important news straight from the source, or have a direct meeting or discussion. And the critical mass of engaged industry players is its own source of opportunity.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

THE CHALLENGE: Additive manufacturing has progressed from being mainly a tool for low-cost prototyping to a manufacturing activity that can produce large volumes of high-value metallic components. Industry experts have identified quality control as one of the biggest obstacles to widespread additive manufacturing adoption.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The manufacturing industry, including the metalworking sector, is increasingly applying sustainable business practices as pressures such as regulations mount. There are some very hard business benefits to pursuing this course and compliance fits into this as well,” Tate noted. Why the uptick in sustainability-related initiatives?

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 6, 2023

The 4 million scanners and other medical devices that GE HealthCare has installed globally are one major source. I think our purpose really fits into this.”. Compassion Purple” is a fitting choice for the new company, which is using this moment to more closely align to their work supporting patients and providers.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Inventory management: Inventory management is one of the areas of manufacturing that is most ripe for digital transformation, and artificial intelligence is making a major impact here. Cybersecurity: With the advent of the connected facility, cybersecurity has become a major concern.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

JUNE 21, 2018

There is no one size fits all view when it comes to manufacturing. Large, advanced plants are using a plethora of advanced manufacturing processes, robots and data as a core part of their operations. The report found there were five top areas that middle market manufacturers are focused on. These included: Cybersecurity.

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i4.0 today

MARCH 1, 2024

If it has to be precise In precision mechanics, it is crucial that every component fits exactly and that the correct functioning of a system is guaranteed. 5 examples of current trends that have the potential to have a lasting impact on manufacturing processes and technologies: 1. © Surplex). Precision craftsmanship has a long history.

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“There’s an athleticism in the performance of the RX that makes it a perfect fit to join the ‘Wakanda Forever’ team.” School for Experiential Education in Design) embraced the challenge to reimagine the all-new Lexus RX interior by using the much-anticipated sequel as its source of inspiration.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2025

Traditionally, manufacturers rely on measurement and compensation to control these variations, adjusting for thermal and mechanical changes during grinding. But what if there was a way to eliminate a major source of inaccuracy altogether? This is the perfect machine for simple aerospace, automotive and fitting parts.

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Fastener News Desk

MARCH 29, 2024

Written by: Matt Kremenetsky AJ Strandquist is a different kind of additive manufacturing (AM) CEO. Having risen up through Würth Industry ’s core fastener and assembly business for nearly a decade, Strandquist became a founder and the CEO of Würth Additive Group (WAG) when the company got off the ground in 2021.

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ATS

MARCH 18, 2024

Additive manufacturing: Availability of replacement parts can sometimes be a problem, especially as equipment ages and manufacturers go out of business. Metal additive manufacturing, particularly laser powder bed fusion, can give a maintenance department the ability to create new spare parts in just a few hours.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 23, 2023

After graduating, Scott worked for a couple of large companies and eventually landed at a foreign-owned manufacturer of vacuums and power tools that sourced many of its parts from China. His introduction to the possibilities of manufacturing in China happened there. We need to make sure that everything fits.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The eight technology pavilions, spread across three halls, explored critical sectors such as 3D/Additive Manufacturing, Forming and Fabricating, Finishing, METALFORM, Tube/Pipe, Robotics and Industrial Automation, Welding, and Welding Automation.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 23, 2023

Pavilions at FABTECH are dedicated to 3D/Additive Manufacturing, Forming & Fabricating (Hall A) ; Welding, Welding Automation, Robotics & Industrial Automation (Hall B); and METALFORM, Finishing, Tube & Pipe (Hall D). Clean Air fume extraction MIG guns, which reduce smoke at the source, also will be featured by Bernard.

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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. 9, to Thursday, Sept.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The word integrated is an integral part of the foundation of our company, we are able to combine processes from multiple windows and provide our customers with one single window where they can source their parts, their products, whether it's an individual part or a product, or whether it is an assembled part or a product.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

Once they understood how to do that stuff, then we start sourcing locally. And then over time, we built a very good engineering team over there could design machine tools to fit that same model with the market wanted, which was a low-cost, commodity is the wrong term, but a low-cost commodity machine that was affordable.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 28, 2023

Of course, there are plenty of American durable goods manufacturers, or more specifically, there are plenty of owners and leaders of these companies that aspire to keep production in the United States, but feel as if they've hit a wall. So if you go to Janus's website, the company clearly outlines where each of its parts are sourced.

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Dinesh Mishra

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Additionally, there is growing interest in additive manufacturing (3D printing), which is gaining traction for producing complex, lightweight components, especially in aerospace and defence industries. These centres focus on training students in modern manufacturing technologies, including Industry 4.0, Personal Insights 1.

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Automation Mag

MAY 8, 2024

So the new S-Family is very compact and fits into smaller spaces. So, the path is to open source open and open approach to make sure that we can democratize automation as fast as possible. We see that most of our clients don’t want to have a very large footprint. They don’t have large footprints for robotics anymore.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 2, 2024

Source (All Images) | Dynamic Tool Corp. The Evolution of an Enterprise A long track record of success in the delivery of high-performance production molds has enabled Dynamic to become a go-to source for their customers’ new product development teams. Presented by Progressive Components and MoldMaking Technology.

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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 29, 2023

MoldMaking Technology ’s tech roundups aim to streamline the process of discovering new product or service solutions to keep you in the loop of new developments that may be the perfect fit for your moldmaking operations. Every month, MMT releases a roundup highlighting different products, processes and services.

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Control Engineering

MAY 1, 2023

Raj Batra, president of Siemens Digital Industries USA and of the Siemens Foundation, an organization designed to help fill skills gap, opened the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit by discussing how digitalization is helping automation advance manufacturing and other industrial applications. Courtesy: Mark T.

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Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 30, 2023

HSTEC specializes in the development, manufacture, and repair of high-speed motor spindles and fixtures. The final core area of expertise in the CHIRON Group is in additive manufacturing products and solutions. Eventually, these hairpins need to fit into the exact grooves punched or cut into the stator stack sheets.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Pavilions are dedicated to 3D/additive manufacturing; finishing; forming & fabricating; METALFORM; robotics & industrial automation; tube & pipe; welding; and welding automation. A simple and widely relied upon joining technique, press fitting relies upon force and friction to hold two components together.

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Foley

JULY 11, 2023

Companies that may be concerned about the viability or performance of a supplier should consider seeking licenses or other rights that would enable to obtain vital components from another source if the supplier does not meet its obligations. This directive is not limited to supply contracts alone.

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