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Supply Chain

America Makes Announces Recipients of $2.9 Million Defense Project Call

The project award winners are tasked with demonstrating data gathering and analysis methods to drive industrywide metal additive manufacturing operations acceptance.

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Materials

Xact Metal Works With Uddeholm as It Expands Into Tooling, Molding

Uddeholm’s Corrax for additive manufacturing is a corrosion-resistant, cobalt-free tool and mold steel capable of an A1 surface finish post-polishing.

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Metal

Farsoon FS721M CAMS Large Format Metal 3D Printer Offers Continuous Manufacturing Capability

The system features Farsoon’s continuous additive manufacturing solution (CAMS) multilaser platform, which includes eight lasers to enable true additive manufacturing series production with increased automation workflow.

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LPBF

3D Printed NASA Thrust Chamber Assembly Combines Two Metal Processes: The Cool Parts Show #71

Laser powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition combine for an integrated multi-metal rocket propulsion system that will save cost and time for NASA. The Cool Parts Show visits NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

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Metal

Additive Manufacturing Versus Cavitation

The design freedom possible with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printing is making it faster and easier to produce complex anticavitation devices for valves.

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LPBF

How to Rapidly Calibrate 4-Laser Production LPBF Machines

Multi-laser machines introduce an additional source of variation; the separate lasers have to synch with one another. At this Indiana additive manufacturer, one-third of the laser powder bed fusion machines are multi-laser. Here is is the AM calibration tool this company uses.

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Lightweighting

3D Printed Tennis Racket Serves a Collaborative Win

The collaboration between All Design Lab and Protolabs led to the creation of a 3D printed tennis racket via direct metal laser sintering, called Hìtëkw. This project not only pushed the limits of additive in terms of design capabilities but revealed how important active communication between customer and manufacturer can be for a project’s success.

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Software

Materialise and Renishaw Integrate Systems to Improve Efficiency of Metal 3D Printing

Renishaw system users can now benefit from Materialise’s build processor software as well as its Magics data and build preparation software.

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LFAM

Video: Ergonomics and Economics of Really Big Laser Powder Bed Fusion

The DMP Factory 500 solution currently operating at CIMP-3D offers a look at the equipment and steps necessary to 3D print metal parts at large scale.

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How Machining Makes AM Successful for Innovative 3D Manufacturing

Connections between metal 3D printing and CNC machining serve the Indiana manufacturer in many ways. One connection is customer conversations that resemble a machining job shop. Here is a look at a small company that has advanced quickly to become a thriving additive manufacturing part producer.

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