Video: Survey of AM Users Finds Machine Shops Employing 3D Printing for Plastic Part Production
By: Peter Zelinski
Additive manufacturing provides an option for low-quantity production in polymer. One implication is that machine shops are liable to be less strictly metalworking businesses.
#polymer #video
Why Heineken Sees Breweries in More Countries As a Likely Benefit of 3D Printing
By: Peter Zelinski
This video describes various ways 3D printing streamlines and supports beverage production.
#polymer
Are Crystals the Key to 3D Printing with Silicon Carbide?
By: Peter Zelinski
If SiC was easier and cheaper to apply, we would find many more uses for this hard, lightweight ceramic. Researchers have found a promising additive manufacturing approach, with crystal growth as the bonding mechanism.
#composites #ceramic #lightweighting
Video: Periscope Case Shows 3D Printing for Niche Manufacturing
By: Peter Zelinski
Manufacturing without mold tooling allows the production quantity to be tailored to the market size.
#polymer #video
Linear Motor Platform Delivers Speed, Low Part Cost for Production AM
By: Peter Zelinski
Essentium’s additive manufacturing machine based on semiconductor manufacturing has as much in common with precision machine tools as with other FFF 3D printers.
#polymer
Lightweight Sandvik Cutting Tool Employing Topology Optimization Now Available
By: Peter Zelinski
Additive manufacturing aids “subtractive” CNC machining. We first saw this tool in an early version last year. See the video in this post.
#metal #machining #topologyoptimization
Cool Stuff We Discovered at Rapid + TCT 2019 (See Our Video Collection)
By: Peter Zelinski
AI for process improvement, 3D printing with metal paste, droids for build change—here are six innovations we wanted to share with you straight from the show floor.
#moldmaking #metal #prototyping
AM’s Advance into Production Reveals How Some of the Misperceptions Were Partly True
By: Peter Zelinski
Is additive manufacturing efficient for producing current part designs? No … except also yes. Is it a replacement for current processes? No … except when it is. Recent posts reveal the role additive is likely to play in production.
10 Impressions of Rapid + TCT 2019
By: Brent Donaldson
The largest additive manufacturing exposition in North America is now a mature industry trade show. Here is what the editors of Additive Manufacturing Media saw at this year’s Rapid + TCT.
#prototyping
Surgical Guides Illustrate Promise of Mass Customization; “Up Front is Where Most Value Created,” Says Materialise’s Vancraen
By: Peter Zelinski
Interconnected software systems allow for production via additive manufacturing of a product tailored to individual surgeries.
#polymer
What Is the Role for Additive Manufacturing in Aircraft Structural Components?
By: Peter Zelinski
Spirit AeroSystems recently began installing the Boeing 787’s first titanium structural component to be made through AM. The part is not critical but also not minor. I spoke with manufacturing leaders at Spirit about the meaning of the part and the way forward for additive in aircraft structures.
#metal
Video: 3D-Printed Brackets Are Key to Automated Coolant Delivery for Lights-Out Machining
By: Peter Zelinski
An on-site look at the different elements of the coolant-delivery system developed by a machine shop committed to running unattended.
#brackets #polymer #machining
