Automation

Robots

Robotics Integrator Leverages 3D Printing for Faster Automation Deployment

Rapid Robotics helps manufacturers get up and running with automation quickly, by providing robots that arrive pretrained and already equipped with tooling which is often 3D printed.

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Automation

The Softer Side of Robots: Automating Additive Manufacturing

Robotic applications are expanding in additive manufacturing thanks to rubber and silicone-based systems that can easily adapt to parts of varying sizes and shapes without reprogramming. 

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Tooling

UltiMaker Targets Light Industrial Applications With 3D Printer Designed for the Factory Floor

The company’s Factor 4 3D printer introduced this week is designed to complement conventional manufacturing equipment including CNC machining and automation.

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Robots

Chuck Jaws Achieve 77% Weight Reduction Through 3D Printing

Alpha Precision Group (APG) has developed an innovative workholding design for faster spindle speeds through sinter-based additive manufacturing.

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Software

1000 Kelvin’s AMAIZE AI Co-Pilot for Additive Manufacturing Now Available for Autodesk Fusion

The AMAIZE software is an “AI co-pilot” for engineers, predicting print issues upfront, performing corrections and generating industrial-grade, ready-to-use print files specific to a machine.

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Automation

Materialise Software Module Optimizes Data and Build Preparation for Metal LPBF

The e-Stage for Metal+ software uses physics-based modeling to improve automated support structure generation for laser powder bed fusion.

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Automation

7 Important Ideas on Postprocessing in AM

Additive manufacturing is defined by 3D printing, but it is more than this step. For almost every AM production part, steps after the 3D printing operation are essential to complete the part and realize its value. Here are several thoughts.

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Depowdering 

Hawk Ridge Systems and DyeMansion Forge Partnership to Integrate Software and Hardware in Additive Manufacturing Workflow

Collaboration creates a one-stop-shop for all the tools and software needed to create precision products that look, feel and function properly. Now, Hawk Ridge Systems’ integrated solution portfolio will include a complete print-to-product workflow with DyeMansion’s Powershot C, Powershot S, DM60 and Powerfuse S postprocessing solutions.

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Sustainability

Compact Volkmann PowTReX Basic Serves Single 3D Printers for Powder Recovery for Reuse

The metal powder reprocessing system transfers material to 3D printers, recovers the unused material, screens it and then returns the material to the machine or a container for future use.

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Robots

Meltio, One Off Robotics Develop Robotic AM Work Cell for Cost-Effective, Reliable Metal Part Production

The system offers a deposition rate of up to 1 kg/hr to create clean parts that are fully dense and mechanically equivalent or superior to those created from traditional manufacturing.

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