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Technology and Sourcing Guide 2023: Additive Manufacturing

Mold Making Technology

Every year, the Technology Review and Sourcing Guide includes a portion of that database listed in sourcing grids tailored to match suppliers with their respective product/service offerings along with a sample of product releases that the magazine has featured — in print and/or online — since the last July issue.

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New source of lunar water discovered by China’s Chang’e-5 Moon lander

E&T

Solar winds originating from the Sun are capable of changing the chemical composition of the Moon’s surface by causing it to eject oxygen which then combines with hydrogen ions in the same solar winds to create water. The ‘hydration profiles’ compiled by the team showed that much of the water was derived from the solar wind.

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Franconia Industries Brass Provides Corrosion Resistance

Modern Machine Shop

Source: Franconia Industries Franconia Industries , Diehl Brass Solutions’ North American sales organization, is showcasing its EZeeBrass lead-free brass for the brass semi-finished products industry. EZeeBrass features an optimized composition of 58% copper, 41% zinc and 0.4%

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TRUMPF Improves E-car Batteries with Laser-Driven X-ray Sources

Fabricating & Metal Work

In the future, manufacturers of electric car batteries could further improve the durability and performance of electric car batteries with compact X-ray sources. The XProLas development partnership has now started to develop these laser-driven X-ray sources under the leadership of TRUMPF. Therefore, they are ideal for use in industry.

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DoE offering $30 million for new materials and manufacturing to lower cost of large wind turbines

Robotics Automation News

The US Department of Energy has announced a $30 million funding opportunity to advance the cost-effective domestic manufacturing of materials, including lightweight composites, that allow wind turbines to produce power more efficiently.

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MIT: LucidSim training system helps robots close Sim2Real gap

Robotics Business Review

They quickly realized, however, that with tight control on the composition of the image content, the model would produce similar images that weren’t different from each other using the same prompt. So, they devised a way to source diverse text prompts from ChatGPT. This approach, however, only resulted in a single image.

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Mazak Turning Machine Enables High-Volume Production of Small Parts

Modern Machine Shop

Source: Mazak Corp. The machine’s one-piece, high-damping composite casting (HDCC) base, which is said to be 10% more rigid than cast iron, lowers thermal distortion and provides vibration damping for 30% longer tool life, according to Mazak. The Syncrex 38/9 demonstrates cutting an automotive guide plug.