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ABB Selects Additive Industries’ MetalFAB1 for On-Demand Digital Spare Parts Production
This Turbocharger manufacturer replaces casting with industrial 3D printing, reducing its spare parts manufacturing lead times from nine weeks to one as well as significantly reducing its spare parts inventory levels.
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Using Large-Format Additive Manufacturing for Serial Production
First tools, then production parts. This pattern with industrial 3D printing at small and mid sizes has now come to the biggest additive machines as well.
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BigRep Pro Large-Format Printer Designed for All Stages of Manufacturing
The company says the printer is versatile to enable the production of full-scale, large parts, including functional prototypes, factory tooling, patterns, molds and end-use parts.
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Binder Jetting Is Also a Tooling Technology
A portfolio of 3D printing solutions involving infiltrated sand and metal covers tooling needs for casting, thermoforming, molding and composites.
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Finland Sees Swifter Castings Through Hybrid Manufacturing
Combining sand 3D printing with casting has enabled Hetitec Oy to meet the underserved small-batch Finnish casting market — in some cases, producing high-priority parts in under a week.
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The Way Ahead for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Tooling today, production tomorrow. The capability will advance as value is increasingly seen in lead time savings and design opportunities. Parts that today are cast offer a particularly promising application for a process that is “welding, except not.”
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Are Advances in Additive Manufacturing Being Led by Curmudgeons? AM Radio #4
Noting a pattern: Some of those winning positive gains with additive manufacturing are far from positive in discussing its promise. On AM Radio, Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski unravel this seeming contradiction.
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What Should We Call Additive Manufacturing Businesses? AM Radio #3
Machining is done in a shop, injection molding is done at a molder and casting is done at a foundry. But what do we call businesses that do additive manufacturing? Peter Zelinski and Julia Hider discuss why it’s difficult to name these businesses (and suggest a few options) on this episode of AM Radio.
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ExOne Launches X1 Tooling Industrial-Grade 3D Printed Tooling Solutions
X1 Tooling offers manufacturers fast, affordable and local tooling options for the final production of metal, plastic and composite designs.
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Is AM in Competition With Conventional Manufacturing? Tooling Is on Conventional’s Side
Recent articles consider the other way additive manufacturing is advancing production: not by 3D printing parts, but in the ways 3D printed tooling makes casting, machining, molding and other processes better.
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