What Your CEO Needs to Know About Additive Manufacturing
By: Peter Zelinski
Additive manufacturing promises to affect far more than manufacturing alone. When evaluating AM, the perspective needed is the view that sees the impacts all across the enterprise.
#enterprise
Video: The Pella Corporation Is Succeeding With 3D-Printed Tooling
By: Peter Zelinski
An engineering leader with the window and door maker shows examples of the tooling and machine parts now produced for the company's manufacturing processes using 3D printing.
#video
Video: Additive Manufacturing as an Alternative to Casting
By: Peter Zelinski
Daan Kersten of Additive Industries discusses the promise of metal AM for production. Cost per piece can be lower than many expect.
#metal #casting #video
3D-Printed Tooling and the Mindset Change at Pella
By: Peter Zelinski
For the window and door maker, 3D printing for tooling and machine components is “not just another tool, but a whole other toolkit.” However, winning widespread acceptance and understanding was the most important challenge.
#enterprise
Call for Speakers: Present Your AM Application to Current and Future AM Users at the Additive Manufacturing Conference
By: Peter Zelinski
The call for presenters is now open for the sixth annual AM Conference, to be held August 27-29 in Austin, Texas. Presentations from successful users are welcome, and in fact frequently are some of the best-received talks at the event.
#metal #polymer #AMConference
Niche Manufacturer Discovers How Additive and Amazon Go Together
By: Peter Zelinski
The economics of 3D printing allow for cost-effective production of niche products, and Amazon Prime offers a way to distribute them. The Periscope Case is one company’s first venture into an all-new model aimed at bringing products to market that would never have been profitable before.
Video: How Additive Manufacturing Is Advancing the Space Industry
By: Peter Zelinski
By making launch vehicles more efficient and easier to manufacture, AM lets small companies play a significant role in space. Here is a conversation with an aspiring startup.
#metal #video
Why Additive Manufacturing Needs the Executive Perspective
By: Peter Zelinski
CEOs, take note! Adopting additive manufacturing is a choice likely to affect far more than just production. The paradigm still missing from the evaluation of AM in many cases is the view that sees the impacts in various parts of the enterprise.
#enterprise
Video: Production Additive Manufacturing Is Coming
By: Peter Zelinski
Additive systems are proving capable for cost-effective production even of parts that aren’t all that complex. This will be the next phase of AM.
#video
AM Brings Down the Wall Between Manufacturing and Design
By: Peter Zelinski
In additive manufacturing, design and manufacturing blend together. They can’t be separate if AM is to realize its promise.
Update on Evolve: Ensuring Repeatability, Reliability and Speed for Scale Production
By: Peter Zelinski
Engineering the machine and process to work as consistently as production hardware ought to perform is where the company says its efforts have been focused.
#prototyping #polymer
Video: Redesigned Milling Cutter Demonstrates Design Possibilities of AM
By: Peter Zelinski
Topology optimization plus a material change realize an 80 percent reduction in mass.
#metal #machining #topologyoptimization
