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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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 18, 2024

Using Nexa3D ’s additive technology, Alpine was able to bridge the gap between testing and production via producing 3D printed tooling faster and more cost effectively than conventional metal mold tooling. Alpine Advanced Materials Problem: Long lead times between testing and production.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

With new technologies, materials, and post processing capabilities making their entrance into the industry, it’s important to validate end-use functionality. This takes time and requires a collaborative effort amongst OEMs, users, and research institutes. What does that mean for the qualification of 3D printed parts?

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The future of making involves the ability to respond quickly: leveraging digital inventories and reducing costs and lead times while adding more customer value through customisation. Detailed 3D printing Applications for F&B and Packaging. Make spare parts with a click of a button.

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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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Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 4, 2022

”), the point became painfully obvious to me a few months ago when I was preparing my talk for the 3D Printing Workshop for Job Shops at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago in September 2022. 3D printing the fixtures out of PETG solved the problem, putting a $1 million problem to rest.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 22, 2024

The APSX-PIM offers a compact footprint, user-friendly interface and versatility, while FIM enables precise, high-speed, 3D printed soluble tooling. When making parts with Nexa3D XiP and APSX-PIM: Design: Begin the process by creating a 3D model of the desired part using CAD software.

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Fastener News Desk

APRIL 7, 2025

This milestone marks the transition from MVP to First Edition functionality, introducing a secure, quality-assured digital distribution network. Enable just-in-time manufacturing to reduce lead times and mitigate disruptions.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The operator’s experience is the same, whether controlling traditional fiber placement, robotic fiber placement, 3D printing, robotic 3D printing, or any CNC machining process. Large-scale 3D Printing and Milling Platform From simulation to 3D printing in no time.

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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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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The focus is on harnessing the benefits of the latest technologies, with 3D printing – additive manufacturing, or AM – providing a fast, efficient and low-cost entry point. There was also a substantial saving in inventory costs, since shanks could simply be printed as required.”. AM had a role to play here,” said Elving.

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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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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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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 22, 2023

to evaluate the lead time, cost and quality of Mantle’s printed inserts — developed via its TrueShape precision metal 3D printing technology — to produce dimensionally critical medical parts that are injection molded in a high-temperature thermoplastic. Photo Credit: Mantle Inc.

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AU Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

After completing their due diligence, they selected EVOK3D as the partner of choice and the HP Jet Fusion 5210 3D printing system as the production-ready AM system. “The The HP Multi Jet Fusion system is a complete 3D printing solution. “We

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Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 30, 2023

[Text] In 2021, the global market size for 3-D printing ( 3DP ), also known in industry circles as additive manufacturing, stood at USD 12.6 market showed the fastest growth, said the report where the biggest areas of applications were prototyping, functional part manufacturing, and tooling, in that order. 34 million in 2022.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 18, 2024

Working with colleagues at parent company, Precinmac , the company has formed cross-functional workgroup teams to look at different parts of their business to find solutions for how digitalization and AI tools can improve not just their actual machining, but also communication and training. . “So that was our starting line.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2022

New Metal 3D Printing System Accelerates Mold Insert Production. Mantle highlights its new metal 3D printer, which can reportedly produce precision metal mold inserts from a CAD file in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional manufacturing, without requiring programming. Photo Credit: Addifab, Nexa3D.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Author: Dr Daniel East – group leader, Advanced Manufacturing and Metals, CSIRO When we established Lab 22 in 2015, our primary goal was to introduce the pioneering technology of 3D printing to Australian companies and demonstrate its potential benefits. The result is an increase in structural integrity and quicker assembly times.

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Mold Making Technology

JULY 6, 2023

The goal is to create designs that maximize manufacturability, ensure part quality and enhance functionality within the constraints of micro molding technology. This vertical integration allows Accumold to hold quick lead times and efficiently collaborate to solve problems and produce quality products.

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AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The focus is on harnessing the benefits of the latest technologies, with 3D printing – additive manufacturing, or AM – providing a fast, efficient and low-cost entry point. . There was also a substantial saving in inventory costs since shanks could simply be printed as required,” he said. .

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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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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

It also reduced maintenance costs, tool costs (30-40%) and tooling lead times (20-30%). This is unfortunate since tool production — especially hard/metal tools — can have long lead times and add considerable cost to the bottom line. Photo Credit: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.

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MEM

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CASTOR provides automated 3D printing software which analyses thousands of parts simultaneously and offers deep technical analysis of a complete machine design. Digital reality and automation are our bread and butter, but part of the Sixth Sense mission is to function as a mutual exchange of value. CASTOR , Tel Aviv, Israel .

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

“We will also have a new standard called API 20T for polymer parts, and we use the DNV standard called B203 and those standards tells us how to qualify a 3D printing factory with our processes and competence and machines.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This also included the design and production of coupons and critical parts, validation and qualification, and the final delivery of the full-sized metal 3D-printed casing. The team also reduced the manufacturing lead time from nine months to two and a half months, by approximately 75%.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Additive Manufacturing: The rise of additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, is influencing traditional machine tool manufacturers. They use additive techniques to produce complex geometries, customized tools, and tool components with reduced lead times and enhanced performance characteristics.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 2, 2024

Going well beyond traditional mold functional sampling and short runs, Dynamic’s processing team embraces scientific molding principles as a proven method to yield the most repeatable production processes. This internal capability allows Dynamic Tool to manage lead time and avoid outsourcing bottlenecks.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 5, 2023

Stress-relieving heat treatment therefore reduces lead times, increases precision, results in cost savings and thus provides a competitive advantage in the long term for Meusburger’s customers. This allows for accurate pressure and flow rate control, providing additional functions for 360-degree flow control and monitoring.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 4, 2024

The mobile labs will offer students demonstrations of production technologies such as desktop machine tools and 3D printing. Chicago-based FIRST Robotics teams will also lead demonstrations of their robots. Day 3: 3D Printing for Job Shops Thursday, September 12 1:00 – 4:00 P.M.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 5, 2023

In its pure form copper is relatively soft; for the more advanced 3D-printing purposes it’s usually mixed with other metals into alloys that provide enhanced mechanical properties along with that valuable conductivity. It was essentially a powder looking for a process, for years—before it found its niche in 3D printing.” Cleland

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 9, 2025

Over the last few years, after witnessing the growth of 3D additive metals for productions molding, PLT has engaged with manufacturers and their materials to train staff and establish proven techniques to service laser requests similar to traditional tooling. In the past few years, the company has focused on metal 3D for molding.

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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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