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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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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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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. Mr Hickmann said VAILO would shortly put its Kent Town offices on the market and would lease back the site until Wayville’s fit out was completed.

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3D + RGB: New 3D Camera from IDS Brings Colour into Space!

i4.0 today

Ensenso C is suitable for the automation of many industrial processes, such as in quality control, on assembly lines or for picking tasks. Initially, the 3D camera is available with a baseline of approx. The Ensenso C fits seamlessly into the 3D camera range from IDS. 455 mm will be offered.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 1: A Return From China

Modern Machine Shop

We need to make sure that everything fits. In the meantime, you have probably sent your schematics, maybe your tools and dyes over to China to help on the assembly line. Every time we 3d printed or CNC'ed, or anytime we made a part, we'd go out and use it. He lived there. His whole family lived there.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 6: Why, and How, Hardinge is Reshoring Machine Tool Production

Modern Machine Shop

So really taking that technology and that competency for building assembly lines, leading them out optimizing production and assembly, and then working on supply chain and quality. So I think timing wise, it really kind of fit the overall story. Jones and Shipman at the time, Hardinge UK at the time.