Design for Additive
Additive Manufacturing in the Age of COVID-19
Reporting from the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus – how my journey began.
April 3, 2020 - Timothy W. Simpson
Basics
How a Worksheet Can Elevate AM Success
How a simple worksheet can help improve success with additive manufacturing.
February 26, 2020 - Timothy W. Simpson
Education
Card Decks Leverage Additive Creativity
How custom card decks are helping people be more creative with AM.
January 23, 2020 - Timothy W. Simpson
Education
The Challenges of Teaching Creativity in Additive Manufacturing
The extensive design freedoms offered in additive manufacturing can be paralyzing. With AM consistently pushing the boundaries of manufacturing, how do we teach people to take risks and be creative with AM?
December 27, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Basics
Additive Manufacturing Standards
There are gaps in additive manufacturing where no published standard or specification currently exists for AM to respond to a particular industry need. Learn about the resources and additive standards and make more sense of the growing technology in this sphere.
November 22, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Basics
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
AM Technology
Material Jetting - It's Like Printing, Just in 3D!
Recent advances in materials processing capabilities have renewed interest in material jetting, the additive process that allows 3D objects to be built by placing different combinations of material drop-by-drop.
September 26, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Materials
Material Extrusion: Now with Metal
Challenging our thinking about materials in metal additive manufacturing and the possibilities with material extrusion technology.
August 21, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Design for Additive
Additive Manufacturing via Material Extrusion
Material extrusion was the second process to be successfully commercialized. After three decades of material advancements and a diverse array of start-ups and applications, the use cases for this technology are still going strong.
August 1, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Polymer AM
Additive Manufacturing — More Than Metal: How Vat Photopolymerization Started It All
Vat photopolymerization was the first AM process to be successfully commercialized. Three decades later, this technology has shown how AM is capable of scaling to volume production and making custom products on demand.
July 11, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Additive Manufacturing and Metal Casting
How is additive manufacturing disrupting metal casting? A hybrid approach to consider.
July 4, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson
Hybrid Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing for Hard Tooling
Hybrid manufacturing is enabling tooling to be made with additive processes.
June 27, 2019 - Timothy W. Simpson