AU Manufacturing

MARCH 30, 2023

Aerospace company Sidus Space has recognised additive manufacturing’s capability as a highly effective tool to optimise weight in systems designed to reach space, with the development of a 3D-printed satellite set to launch in 2023. To be fit for launch in 2023, the satellite, dubbed as LizzieSat, cannot weigh more than 100 kilograms.

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AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AML3D has received a $215,000 purchase order from Chevron Australia for the delivery of two subsea pipeline fittings. . The fittings are expected to meet both the American Society of Mechanical and American Petroleum Institute standards. . This is another important step in supporting global Oil and Gas customers such as Chevron.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Markforged has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing for the past 10 years, helping manufacturers revolutionise the industrial production landscape by bringing 3D printing right to the factory floor. A year later, the company launched Eiger, its cloud- based 3D printing software.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What does that mean for the qualification of 3D printed parts? Finally, all green parts can be printed by the Marine Corps network of producers and whose form, fit and function characteristics require no analysis of performance impacts prior to use. Most of these printers capable of printing green bin parts are polymer.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 11, 2023

Manufacturers’ Monthly explores how SQP Engineering has progressed from a sub-contract machine shop to a manufacturing solutions hub with the help of Markforged 3D printing systems. However, the business was unable to produce the required result in the needed time frame using its existing equipment.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Available in your favorite app: Izhar Medalsy is the Chief Technology Officer of Nexa3D , a 3D printer OEM who is breaking the barriers of Additive Manufacturing and leading the ultrafast polymer 3D printing revolution. 14:55 – What else makes XiP unique compared with other desktop 3D printers? About Nexa3D

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Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With 3D printing beginning to finally have the impact on manufacturing that was expected some 30 years ago, manufacturers remain wary of truly capitalising on it. Additive Assurance can trace its roots back to co-founder Marten Jurg’s time at Monash University completing his PhD and working with additive printing equipment.

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Dinesh Mishra

AUGUST 23, 2022

If a part breaks, that could mean extended lead times and added costs. Joey Carpenter, production engineering technician, began using 3D printing to bring tooling production in-house and reduce potential disruptions. Carpenter was new to 3D printing when he was introduced to the MakerBot METHOD X series in early 2022.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 2, 2024

With reshoring on the rise, the issue of tooling lead times and costs has reached a critical point. Robotics, simulation software and metal 3D printing can significantly reduce the labor required during the moldmaking process, enabling shorter lead times and lower costs. Photo Credit: Nicolet Plastics 3.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It’s critical to keep in mind how your 3D-printed design translates to injection molding for both manufacturability and cost. When comparing potential manufacturing processes against criteria like price and lead time, there are many things to keep in mind. Photo Credit, all images: Protolabs Inc.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Dielenberg, along with co-founder Scott Anderson, is looking to scale equipment offering in the Coburg North facility, which includes a wood workshop, welding bay, laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, bronze forge, spray booth and co-working fabrication space. The fabrication space is a valuable asset inside the studio.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

We specialize in producing molds and molded parts for the most demanding applications, most often tight tolerance and functionally critical parts such as gears, housings and fittings. This technological shift has allowed MPC Advanced Machining to reduce lead times, improve consistency and take on more complex projects with greater accuracy.

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AU Manufacturing

APRIL 21, 2023

Producing multiple parts means extra cost, is time-consuming and opens up the possibility of errors and reworkings. The benefits of using AM to make mandrels include lower tooling costs, shorter lead times, and greater flexibility in design. It allows direct casting of the mould into a 3D-printed sacrificial shell.

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Mold Making Technology

JULY 6, 2023

The advantages of vertical integration in micro molding include enhanced control over the entire production process, improved coordination between design and manufacturing stages, reduced lead times, better quality assurance and increased cost efficiency. We are now close to using this technology for 3D-printed prototype tooling.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2025

What’s New and What Works The show floor highlighted a variety of technologies and products, from software and AI to 3D printing, mold materials and maintenance and repair options. What follows is a general overview of my time at the show and by no means conveys all of that the show floor encompassed.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Trends and technologies such as microfactories, automation, on-demand production, and more are creating a new reality where local and onshore manufacturing can fit into the overall logistics puzzle along with offshore applications to maximize flexibility, resiliency and profitability. This strategy is no longer viable or profitable.

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Dinesh Mishra

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Additionally, there is growing interest in additive manufacturing (3D printing), which is gaining traction for producing complex, lightweight components, especially in aerospace and defence industries. The market for CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines is expanding rapidly, driven by the automotive and aerospace sectors.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

And then over time, we built a very good engineering team over there could design machine tools to fit that same model with the market wanted, which was a low-cost, commodity is the wrong term, but a low-cost commodity machine that was affordable. So I think timing wise, it really kind of fit the overall story.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 15, 2023

The impediment, of course, is the cost and time necessary for molds. Obtaining a prototype metal blow mold has traditionally entailed six weeks of lead time , at a cost of up to $10,000 , according to Rodriguez and R&D packaging engineer Thangthip Tekanil, to whom I spoke for this story.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

3D Printing: New applications and materials in both metal and resin printing are now more affordable, inspiring new implementation ideas. Steve Michon, Zero Tolerance LLC 3D Printing: Xact Metal’ s 3D printing of cavity and core blocks for injection molds. Machine Metrics: Industry 4.0

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 3, 2024

Now more than ever, as companies serving the moldmaking and plastic industry begin to gear up for NPE 2024, new technologies are being released and highlighted to positively impact manufacturing — reducing lead times, enhancing quality and precision, keeping projects on track, ensuring consistent digitalization and automation and more.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 12, 2023

based FET is growing and changing to fit the needs of the molding marketplace for shorter cycle times and lower weight parts — this is particularly true for the growing electric vehicle (EV) market. This has enabled Plastek to provide high-quality, dependable molds with reliable and short lead times.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 2, 2024

Given the diverse scope of tool builds — ranging from single-cavity prototypes to four-cavity bridge tooling to multiple high-cavitation molds (16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, etc.) — lead times vary accordingly. This internal capability allows Dynamic Tool to manage lead time and avoid outsourcing bottlenecks.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 6, 2023

We are telling different stories about companies that have made choices to locate manufacturing in the United States, or keep manufacturing in the US and Starrett fits that second category. Brent Donaldson: For Tim, the toolmakers program was not a good fit. And in fact, the majority of its production has remained in Massachusetts.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

So we've always worked with a few machine shops around and we have friends who have machine shops, and we know the machine shops and the whole process and the whole paradigm of running work through US machine shops at the time. The lead times were incredibly long, the pricing was not anywhere near what we could sustain.

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