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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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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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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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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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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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Electrification Brings Changing Demands to Automotive Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

The electronic components of EV motors require a clean environment for assembly, which means greater attention to HVAC systems and air filters, as well as enclosing spaces, to control airborne particles. Current assembly lines at ZF are about 33% automated; Lillard says that for the EV products, lines will be closer to 70% automated.

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RV manufacturer Apollo Motorhome taps into Markforged 3D printers in new partnership

AU Manufacturing

Edney Ferreira, engineering manager at Apollo, said the addition of Markforged 3D printing technology will streamline Apollo’s production and provide the company with the ability to create high-quality, custom parts that are essential to the production of its Motorhomes, Campervans and Caravans.