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Variable Resistance Valve Trim Achieves Lead Time Reduction Through AM: The Cool Parts Show #69
Baker Hughes is realizing shorter lead times and simplified manufacturing through powder bed fusion to produce valve trims previously assembled from many machined metal parts.
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How Manufacturing Information Becomes "Golden": The Cool Parts Show All Access
Baker Hughes saves optimized production information in its PLM system for reuse later, creating “Golden Master” manufacturing routers. Rohan Buntval, additive manufacturing design engineer, goes into greater detail about how files become golden.
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Study Indicates AM Users Familiar with Generative Design More Open to Pivoting Production
A paper published by Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) found that firms with generative design experience were more agile in pivoting to make pandemic-response items, regardless of whether they applied these design tools to do so.
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The Cold Spray Solution to the Casting, Forging Supply Chains
Startup HAMR Industries performs additive manufacturing work at Neighborhood 91 that provides an alternative to traditional casting and forging. Success so far has led to redefining the limits of its additive equipment.
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4 Weeks from Design to Molded Part, with 3D Printed Tooling
Mold builder Westminster Tool used Mantle’s TrueShape metal 3D printing technology to develop tooling that it then applied to injection mold more than 7,000 medical parts for its customer, in less than one month.
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Implicit Modeling for Additive Manufacturing
Some software tools now use this modeling strategy as opposed to explicit methods of representing geometry. Here’s how it works, and why it matters for additive manufacturing.
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Spherene Creates Metamaterial with Geometry Derived from Spheres
An algorithm developed by Spherene Inc. generates Adaptive Density Minimal Surfaces (ADMS) as a self-supporting infill strategy that can be used to reduce mass and manage material properties in 3D printed parts.
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8 Ways the Plastics Industry Is Using 3D Printing
Plastics processors are finding applications for 3D printing around the plant and across the supply chain. Here are 8 examples.
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3D Printed Airless Basketball Now for Sale
Wilson began selling its Airless Gen1TM 3D printed basketball on February 16, 2024. Here’s what we learned about the ball last year, in this bonus episode of The Cool Parts Show.
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Making Sense of Qualification, Certification and Standards in Additive Manufacturing: AM Radio #48
AM needs standards and processes for qualification and certification just like any other process. In this conversation with Dr. Tim Simpson, AM editors dive into the distinctions between these terms, and explore how they are influencing additive adoption and advancement.
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What Is Neighborhood 91?
With its first building completely occupied, the N91 campus is on its way to becoming an end-to-end ecosystem for production additive manufacturing. Updates from the Pittsburgh initiative.
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4 Ways Augmented Reality and 3D Printing Intersect
Augmented reality (AR) is bringing benefits to additive manufacturing, and vice-versa.
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