Is a Gel Bath the Key to Scalable, Affordable 3D Printed Ceramics?
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
3D printed polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) could find wider application through a process developed at the University of Texas at Dallas that extrudes preceramic material in a self-healing bath for support through printing and curing.
#ceramic
PrintSyst Automates AM Decision Making with AI (Includes Video)
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
The startup’s cloud-based artificial intelligence tool is designed to help companies adopting additive manufacturing make fast, easy decisions about what and how to 3D print.
#machinelearning #enterprise #video
Call for Speakers Now Open for Additive Manufacturing Conference + Expo 2021
By: AM Staff
Abstracts from potential speakers for the 2021 Additive Manufacturing Conference are now being accepted on subjects relating to applications and advances in additive production.
#AMConference
More Than Meets the Eye to Cobra’s 3D Printed Putter
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
Cobra Golf drew attention in November 2020 with the launch of a limited-edition putter with metal 3D printed head. What this club says about product development, reshoring manufacturing and the future of consumer goods.
#metal
THE COOL PARTS SHOW
Why Dig a Pit in an Additive Manufacturing Facility?
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
At the end of 2019, Additive Engineering Solutions moved two of its BAAM 3D printers out of the way and began to dig a hole in the floor. How going lower allows AES to build higher.
#video #polymer #largeformat
Making a Slow Decision on a Fast Technology: Evaluating the Business Case for Multi-Laser Powder Bed Fusion
A data-driven approach to laser powder bed fusion reveals how companies can get cost out of parts and match productivity to customer requirements. Part Three of a three-part series.
#enterprise #metal
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle With 3D Printed Hull: The Cool Parts Show #24
By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief
Our first episode of The Cool Parts Show from inside a 3D printer! Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) produces exterior components of a robot submarine and changes how this AUV is marketed.
#video #composites #coolparts
3D Printed Cooling Bars Will Improve Observability of Antimatter
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
An experiment resuming in 2022 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be better able to detect the paths of particles thanks to efficient cooling delivered by metal 3D printed tubes.
#metal
Beginning the AM Journey: An Uphill Battle
By: Timothy W. Simpson, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design & Manufacturing
Faster machines, cheaper feedstocks, new standards – with all of these advances, why is additive manufacturing still “an uphill battle” for so many?
3D Printing Brings Custom, Affordable Bone Prostheses to Thai Patients
By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
Meticuly was founded to provide custom bone implants for local patients in Thailand and regional countries who otherwise would be dependent on standard, imported devices. The concept could be a model for medical treatment in other emerging economies.
#supplychain #implants #metal
Porsche Advances Electrification with Generative Design
By: Gary S. Vasilash, Transportation Editor
The sports car manufacturer achieves weight savings and assembly consolidation using additive manufacturing instead of casting for an electric drive housing.
#assemblyconsolidation #lightweighting #generativedesign
Pushing Laser Powder Bed Fusion into New Realms of Productivity
By: Barbara Schulz, European Correspondent
The Betatype technology stack supports businesses looking to expand on the potential of additive manufacturing for series production through design-led thinking and unique optimization algorithms to maximize the capacity of LPBF systems.
#metal
LATEST ISSUES
3D Printed Parts on the Mars Perseverance Rover: The Cool Parts Show #23
By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief
The Perseverance parts made through additive manufacturing are extreme examples of lightweighting. We have replicas of the 3D printed parts that were sent to Mars.
#lightweighting #metal #video
Can the U.S. Become Self-Sufficient in Aerospace Alloy Metal Powders?
By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief
6K’s technology can upcycle titanium and nickel-alloy parts into additive manufacturing powder. Here is how the circular economy helps national security.
#supplychain #metal #sustainability
DMLS or Polyjet? A Hands-On Comparison to Produce Prototype Mold Inserts
By: Barbara Schulz, European Correspondent
The development phase of creating injection molded parts and inserts often requires the production of small-quantity prototypes. This moldmaker compared two different AM technologies to produce prototype mold inserts made from tool steel and polypropylene photopolymer.
#metal #polymer #moldmaking
Additive Manufacturing Conference + Expo 2021 Announces Dates, Moves to the Queen City
By: AM Staff
Additive Manufacturing Media’s leading event for industrial 3D printing will be held October 12-14 in Cincinnati, OH.
#AMConference
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