Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What does that mean for the qualification of 3D printed parts? reflected on the adoption of 3D printing, “There are over 400 3D printers in the field with Marines, more than any other service or global military combined.” Most of these printers capable of printing green bin parts are polymer.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Metal 3D printing via laser powder bed fusion is an expensive process, one which leaves little room for failure in postprocessing steps. ” Limiting machining to additive manufacturing postprocessing steps is a massive time and cost saver for KAM, but even these operations can act as bottlenecks when unoptimized.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 29, 2023

Initially developed by a small team in Sweden, Digital Metal began as a subsidiary of Höganäs AB as a relative unknown in 3D printing. Digital Metal’s 3D metal printing machines with proprietary, high-precision binder jetting technology, required further commercialisation to get into the hands of industry.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Without modern, efficient infrastructure, the benefits of reshoring could be lost to bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Companies need to build relationships with multiple suppliers to mitigate risks and avoid bottlenecks. Strengthening Supplier Networks A flexible supplier network is critical to the success of reshoring.

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The trick about 3D printing, as we’ve learned over the years, is to look at announcements with a critical eye. Numbers Print speeds, not just comparisons; give me metrics, not unquantifiable 2x/3x/5x/10x/20x/100x claims that don’t actually say anything specific Including post-processing into workflow discussion.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This important functionality will help ensure production-scale parts are 3D printed accurately and can be inspected quickly within a closed-loop additive manufacturing process. Parts inspection in particular can be a significant bottleneck in the production process, in many cases creating delays of weeks or months.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 31, 2024

” By showing that users without computer science experience can train robots, 1X said it is removing a bottleneck to scaling. In this ‘farm-to-table’ approach, they’ve built all the capabilities.” for longer-horizon behaviors,” he said. . It’s a healthy competition.”

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Canadian Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

One of the biggest bottlenecks in photonics is packaging, figuring out how to get light in and out of the chips in an efficient way so that they can make reliable connections,” explained Mitchell, noting that most photonic packaging solutions are costly and limited by technical challenges related to scaling.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Medical 3D printing professionals expect growth in nearly every application area over the next year. Hospitals or the point of care have been the center of patient-specific 3D printing for many years. For medical applications, the initial processing of medical imaging files or segmentation has always been a bottleneck.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 11, 2024

He completed a market research study, dissecting the market to better understand where the bottlenecks are in food production and to identify the opportunities. But cooking isn’t the labor bottleneck in food production, the most labor-intensive is plating, assembly, and portioning. billion in 2023 to $3.35

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2024

3D printing still remains a part of the conversation as well. Everyone’s curious about how it’s changing the game in moldmaking — whether it’s improving hot runner designs, making molding more efficient or helping bridge the skills gap, there’s a lot of excitement around what 3D printing can do.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A neutral, fully cloud-supported slicing capability removes workflow bottlenecks and potential security holes for users looking to bring in new hardware and materials capabilities to their 3D printing operations. Perhaps most meaningfully, realizable cloud support can power print farms.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 1, 2023

Enables customers to drive cross-platform LPBF printing from one application. Brings automated process-to-part app development capability to metal 3D printing. Additive CAM, also known as 3D print preparation, remains a manual, time-consuming and tedious roadblock to a truly autonomous manufacturing workflow.

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Fastener News Desk

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. 3D-printed automotive parts, courtesy of Ford Another interesting possibility that AM enables is greater customization. Sometimes these production delays can be in the range of months.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 2, 2023

Integrate: Eliminate data exchange bottlenecks with Implicit Interop As AM parts increase in complexity, legacy design file sizes become a roadblock. nTop will continue to develop the capabilities of this new technology in future releases. nTop Implicit File (.implicit)

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21st Century Tech

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck. Recently, the CBS news program, 60 Minutes , ran a piece describing the very problem with global supply chain bottlenecks in the port of Los Angeles that likely had befouled our sofabed purchase. We repainted. No problem. We then ordered it.

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Supply Chain Bottleneck 3D printing Warehousing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 15, 2023

Initially developed by a small team in Sweden, Digital Metal begun as a subsidiary of Höganäs AB as a relative unknown in 3D printing. Digital Metal’s 3D metal printing machines with proprietary, high-precision binder jetting technology, required further commercialisation to get into the hands of industry.

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3D printing Additive manufacturing Made-to-spec Prototype  59

Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Look for bottlenecks that, if eradicated, would increase machine/department/company output. I am in reasonably good health, as is my wife, Cheryl, so my future plans include a little traveling and enjoying varied hobbies such as radio-controlled flying models, 3D-printing, bicycle riding and gardening. Prioritize improvements.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At the core of the QLS 820 is Nexa3D’s powerful Quantum Laser Sintering (QLS) print engine consisting of four CO 2 lasers with 100W power each that deliver 4x the print speed of other laser sintering and powder bed fusion technologies. The entire system is automation ready and designed for 24/7 lights-out operation.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 4, 2023

For Terem, there are two major bottlenecks to the adoption of additive technologies: the sophistication and effectiveness of the technology itself and the knowledge of the end users. “I think there’s an internal driver in Australia which combines innovation culture with real manufacturing capabilities,” Terem said.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2023

Get to Know Wisconsin Engraving Visit Booth 1324 , a place where mold builders and their customers can come to help alleviate their bottlenecks. A limited number of custom-engraved SPE tumblers will also be available (must be a moldmaker to receive).

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2024

AI-powered ERP helps control supply chain management by predicting supplier lead times, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing logistics routes. Supply Chain Management Supply chain disruptions can cause serious problems.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE): Analyze MyPerformance/OEE allows the important indicators to be identified for the improvement of machine or work cell utilization to eliminate production bottlenecks. At IMTS 2022, Siemens discussed 3D printing of redesigned steering knuckles on a DMG Mori Lasertec 30 Dual SLM.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Advanced 3D Printing Technology SUHNER’s precision 3D printing capabilities create complex shapes for metal and plastic production, serving industries such as aviation and mechanical engineering. www.suhner.com Resistance Welding Leader to Showcase New Press/Spot Welder Booth W-2929: T.J.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 2, 2024

This internal capability allows Dynamic Tool to manage lead time and avoid outsourcing bottlenecks. Eventually, this area will be a bottleneck, so we are constantly looking for ways to automate to increase our throughput potential,” Lucas says. Only three people run the equipment, program, set up and tear down.

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Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Lincoln Electric Partners With Bechtel Plant Machinery to Support US Navy Source: Getty Images Lincoln Electric will 3D print large-scale propulsion components measuring almost 10 feet in diameter and weighing up to 20,000 pounds.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

By eliminating traditional quoting bottlenecks, SAEKI reduced the procurement cycle from days to minutes. SAEKI’s origins are in hands-on manufacturing The 3D robot printer in action. While a global automotive manufacturer noted that using SAEKIs 3D-printed composite tooling shaved two weeks off of their production schedule.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By eliminating traditional quoting bottlenecks, SAEKI has reduced the procurement cycle from days to minutes. While a global automotive manufacturer noted that using SAEKIs 3D-printed composite tooling shaved 2 weeks off of their production schedule. ” To learn more, www.saeki.ch.

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Manufacturing 3D printing Supply Chain Aerospace 59

Control Engineering

MAY 1, 2023

Garlin Gilchrist, lieutenant governor of Michigan and two-time technology start-up entrepreneur and former Microsoft programmer, said Michigan helps manufacturers with 3D printing, robotics and other automation to help manufacturers grow, in comments at the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit. Courtesy: Mark T.

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