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Materialise Empowers Control of the 3D Printing Process

Fabricating & Metal Work

Phase 3D technology adds height mapping, a form of topographic layer data, and Sigma Additive Solutions provides thermal data from the melt pool, the area of the melted material during the metal 3D printing process. Materialise collaborated with Phase 3D and Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc. The BP SDK offers an agile way to achieve that.

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Push vs. Pull Systems in Manufacturing

ATS

In many cases material travels as a batch, with the batch size determined by some form of economic batch quantity formula. A characteristic of batch production is that the batch can’t move on to the next operation until all units have been processed through the preceding step. This also tends to mean longer manufacturing lead times.