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How to Start a 3D Printing Service Bureau

Additive Manufacturing

The beauty of today’s manufacturing environment is that anyone can start a 3D printing service bureau and begin printing parts today. According to a recent report by Persistence Markets , the 3D printing service bureau industry is projected to surge eight times the size of its present state over the next decade.

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Washington university develops 3D-printed robotic gripper that can pick up anything, no matter what its geometry

Robotics Automation News

To make this switch possible, these companies relied on people working on an assembly line. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, car manufacturing companies such as Ford quickly shifted their production focus from automobiles to masks and ventilators.

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North American Lighting Accelerates Assembly Line Production with MakerBot 3D Printers

Dinesh Mishra

NAL engineers print end of arm tools, assembly line jigs, fixtures, and more with METHOD X 3D printers. To that end, assembly line tools are essential to ensure that production continues smoothly. Carpenter was new to 3D printing when he was introduced to the MakerBot METHOD X series in early 2022.

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Helping assembly-line robots pick up objects

Control Engineering

To make this switch possible, these companies relied on people working on an assembly line. A University of Washington team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. One of the objects was a blue 3D-printed bunny.

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NASA Has Jumped on the Generative AI Design and Manufacturing Bandwagon

21st Century Tech

It intends to explore and teach the transitioning of today’s manufacturing systems into on-demand, custom-designed processes that use 3D printing or additive manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI). space agency, that recently started revealing hardware for spacecraft designed using 3D printing and AI?

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Saving Time and Money on the Shop Floor with AM

Modern Machine Shop

”), the point became painfully obvious to me a few months ago when I was preparing my talk for the 3D Printing Workshop for Job Shops at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago in September 2022. 3D printing the fixtures out of PETG solved the problem, putting a $1 million problem to rest.

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Lighting manufacturer to open new R&D facility

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Wayville facility will expand VAILO’s production output, with more than five times the manufacturing floorspace while incorporating automation and robotics on the assembly line.