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Additive Manufacturing Sparks F1 Cars to Victory
A look behind the scenes at the Alfa Romeo Sauber in Switzerland reveals how additive manufacturing plays a decisive role in a Formula One team's challenge to make a new best-car-in the-world every year.
Article By: Barbara Schulz, European Correspondent
Inside the Additive Manufacturing Master’s Program at Penn State
PSU's engineering master's degree in additive manufacturing and design offers students and manufacturing professionals a higher education in a continuously maturing field.
Article By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
Why GM’s Electric Future Is Also an Additive Future
Production capacity isn’t the only reason that additive has been slow to make inroads into the automotive industry. There is a larger barrier to entry—one that General Motors and Autodesk are working to overcome.
Article By: Brent Donaldson, Senior Editor, Additive Manufacturing
From the Editor
AM Brings Down the Wall Between Manufacturing and Design
In additive manufacturing, design and manufacturing blend together. They can’t be separate if AM is to realize its promise.
Columns By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
Taking Shape
10 Impressions of Formnext 2018
The size and scope of this year's Formnext exhibition offered plenty to see, but also reinforced additive manufacturing's continuing maturity. 10 impressions from Additive Manufacturing editors.
Blog By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
A Global Tooling Manufacturer Goes 3D
Wilson Tooling International turns to Carbon’s DLS technology to reimagine a critical part.
Blog By: Brent Donaldson, Senior Editor, Additive Manufacturing
How Topology Optimization Could Be the Key to Longer-Lasting Hip Implants
Hip stem implants must support the mechanical loads of the patient’s lifestyle, but should also avoid stress shielding. A team from Altair leveraged simulation, topology optimization and 3D printing to design an optimized hip stem that meets both conditions.
Blog By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
New Kimura U.S. Metal Casting Plant Relies Entirely on 3D Printing for Molds and Cores
Printing foundry molds and cores without hard tooling will speed leadtimes and make small quantities of castings affordable, the company says. Its proprietary process advances the detail and finish obtainable from casting using sand 3D printing.
Blog By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
Simulation Supports Custom 3D-Printed Knife
Build simulation revealed that distortion was likely to occur in this custom chef’s knife. Thermal shrouding and an unusual support structure were used to counter it.
Blog By: Stephanie Hendrixson, Senior Editor
The Manufacturing Network as a Source for Internal Custom Tooling
For a tool that includes both machined and 3D-printed components, all the pieces of the tool can be made by separate companies yet arrive together. BMW has used Xometry to obtain tooling in this way.
Blog By: Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
