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3D Printing for Aerospace – Quality Requirements

Additive Manufacturing

Honeywell, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin are all using 3D printing for critical parts. Honeywell and Boeing are finding vast time and cost savings in printing parts for aging fleets. All 3D printing systems used in the aerospace field need to be based on a strong quality management system.

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Digital Thread Enables First-Time-Right 3D Printing

Modern Machine Shop

and Adam Hiller, additive manufacturing and Siemens Xcelerator portfolio solutions consultant at Siemens Digital Industries Software, walked attendees through the process of manufacturing a 3D printed steering knuckle from design to postprocessing, tracing the part’s movement along the digital thread. kilograms.

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Updated Standard Provides Fundamental 3D-Printing Design Guidance to Streamline Production

NIST Manufacturing

The standard identifies important features unique to 3D printing and outlines how they should be documented.

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Weighty Considerations Before Expanding into 3D Printing

Fabricating & Metal Work

For low volume additive manufacturing using a single 3D printer, the new PowTReX basic from Volkmann automatically integrates metal powder transfer, extraction, and sieving to permit the recovery and reprocessing of excess on a compact footprint. Unloading excess powder from the build box after printing.

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SmarTech: 3D printing jewellery market to reach almost $1B opportunity in 2031

AU Manufacturing

A recent study by SmarTech Analysis titled, “ 3D Printing Jewelry Markets 2023: Market Study and Forecast” has found that the market for 3D printed jewellery will grow at a 10-year CAGR of 10 per cent from 2021 to 2031, from $489 million (AUD $701 million) in 2017 to $989 million (AUD $1.4 billion) in 2031.

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The Downloadable Metal 3D Printer

Modern Machine Shop

To illustrate the power of a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printing system that is open source, Venkata Karthik Nadimpalli passes a magnet over a sleeve of metal filings held over a solid, 3D printed block of steel. The filings form into letters. The Additive Manufacturing Lab at DTU has 25 Ph.D.-level

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Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing

Fastener News Desk

In addition to the fact that virtually every other industry needs fasteners in large quantities and widely varying types, the level of data complexity involved in successful fastener distribution is why WAG may just be the perfect vessel for a digital inventory platform: “That ties directly into the second advantage WAG has, which is documentation.