Peter Zelinski

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Video: Additive/Subtractive Machining Cycle

DMG Mori produced the part seen in this video to demonstrate the capabilities of its new hybrid machine, which is capable of both CNC machining and additive manufacturing through laser metal deposition.

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Production

Slideshow: Additive Manufacturing Technology at Euromold 2013

A noticeable shift at the show this year was greater emphasis on 3D printing for production applications. This year’s show also saw established makers of conventional manufacturing equipment exhibiting their own new additive manufacturing machines.

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Machining

Hybrid Machine Combines Milling and Additive Manufacturing

Far from being opposite or competitive processes, additive manufacturing and CNC machining actually go together. They belong in the same machine.

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Production

Additive Manufacturing for Production Medical Parts

Various manufacturers have medical products in full production using additive manufacturing.

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Design

Forget What You Know

In small ways and in very big ways, additive manufacturing changes basic assumptions about the design of manufactured parts. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is discovering what the new assumptions should be.

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Aerospace

How Would You Make This Bracket Better?

When design constraints are taken away, what does the very best design for a given application look like?

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Automotive

Landspeed Record with Laser Melting

The very first object to break the landspeed barrier of 1,000 mph is likely to be a part produced through additive manufacturing.

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Additive Manufacturing for In-House Tooling

One of the benefits of having additive manufacturing capability in-house is that it gives the manufacturer an efficient resource for quickly producing custom devices for use in its own processes.

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Implants

Latest Issue of AM: Seeing is Believing

A photo essay documents the types of parts that are possible with an additive production process. The parts come from a medical manufacturing company that is now using additive manufacturing to create implants and instruments that would have been impossible or impractical to create by any other means.

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After the Hype, the Promise Remains

I had assumed that writing about manufacturing technology would always mean writing about topics that few people appreciate. Then came additive manufacturing.

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Metal

Obstacles to the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing

Renishaw was a user of additive manufacturing before it became an OEM supplying additive manufacturing technology—specifically, laser melting systems for producing metal parts. For a metrology company to diversify into additive manufacturing machinery in this way indicates the long-term promise the company sees for this method of manufacturing.

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Something More

The integration of manufacturing with product development creates a context that will help additive manufacturing advance.

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