Polymer AM
How 3D Printing Enables Sustainability in a High-Turnover Consumer Market
Pengraff UK built its business initially providing mounting solutions for routers and telecommunications equipment, hardware with built-in obsolescence. 3D printing and sustainable materials enable the company to live its values while manufacturing products with a limited lifespan.
November 20, 2019 - Stephanie Hendrixson
Education
“The Cool Parts Show” Season One Now Complete: Here is Why We Launched the Show and How You Can Help
Our YouTube series showcases the parts and possibilities additive manufacturing is making real. Will you help us reach future AM users?
November 18, 2019 - Peter Zelinski
Tooling
AM Is Advancing into Tools for Machining: Examples from EMO
The design freedom of additive manufacturing delivers increased performance to tools used in subtractive processes. At the world’s leading exposition for machine tools, I saw various examples of this.
November 15, 2019 - Peter Zelinski
Tooling
3D Printer Parts Made with 3D Printed Tooling: ExOne Walks the Walk
Accelerated timelines, fast design changes and low volumes — in many ways, 3D printing is the right market for 3D printing. ExOne’s newest generation of machines includes parts vacuum formed on 3D printed tools developed by Catalysis Additive Tooling.
November 13, 2019 - Stephanie Hendrixson
Automotive
In Automotive, Is Additive Manufacturing an Answer for Die Cast Tooling?
The largest high-pressure die cast tool builder in North America is 3D printing die inserts and water jackets for major automakers. It’s a tough sell, but one company is succeeding — and it’s just getting started.
November 11, 2019 - Brent Donaldson
Watch: The Cool Parts Show Season 1
The first season of our new series on 3D printed parts is out now! Watch all five episodes.
November 8, 2019
AM Technology
Largest ExOne Metal Binder Jetting System Yet Provides 160-Liter Build Volume
The design of this machine anticipates scale production, with compaction technology for repeatable part density and Industry 4.0 connectivity for lightly staffed AM factories.
November 5, 2019 - Peter Zelinski
Videos
Want More 3D Printed Parts? What's Next for The Cool Parts Show
Season 1 of The Cool Parts Show highlights topology optimized spine implants, custom shoe insoles, a 3D printed build plate for powder bed fusion...and there’s more to come!
November 4, 2019 - Stephanie Hendrixson
Polymer AM
Large-Scale Thermoset Composite AM System Launched
The Reactive Additive Manufacturing (RAM) system is said to be the world’s first large-scale additive manufacturing system compatible with thermoset resins.
November 1, 2019 - Stephanie Hendrixson
AM Technology
Additive Manufacturing with Sheet Lamination
No longer limited to paper, Sheet Lamination bonds sheets of material together to form an object. Companies are now expanding to different materials for sheet lamination, exploring the growing possibilities of a process that started with gluing and stacking hundreds of colored sheets of paper together.
October 30, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
The Cool Parts Show
Can 3D Printing Make a Better AM Build Plate? The Cool Parts Show S1E5
Ultrasonic metal additive manufacturing was used to create a build plate aimed at making powder bed fusion more effective. This episode of The Cool Parts Show looks at a part by AM, for AM.
October 28, 2019 - Peter Zelinski
Education
6 Things I Learned about Metal 3D Printing at the AMIST
I sat in on one and a half days of a five-day class offered at the Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science and Technology (AMIST) in Louisville. Here’s just some of what I learned.
October 25, 2019 - Stephanie Hendrixson