News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
GE Additive will be conductiong their first AddWorks TM additive consulting services engagement in Japan with Honda R&D Co., Ltd, Aircraft Engine R&D Center (Honda Aircraft Engine R&D Center). This agreement aims to further Honda Aircraft Engine R&D Group’s additive application development for its future generation aircraft engines.
Only two days into the 2018 Farnborough Airshow in the UK, and AM giant GE Additive has already made a slew of exciting new announcements. Most recently, the company reported the launch of its new Manufacturing Partner Network (MPN) along with a handful of new partnerships within the network, including Burloak Technologies, Carpenter Technology Corporation and Protolabs Inc.
Oerlikon, a leading technology and engineering group, and RUAG Space, a division of the technology Group RUAG, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding today during the Farnborough Airshow to qualify and accelerate series production of 3D printed space components.
Eaton‘s Aerospace Group has selected two Concept Laser AM machines from GE Additive, as well as GE’s AddWorks consultancy services, to direct industrialization activities as Eaton further evolves and executes its long-term additive manufacturing strategy.
3dpbm – the media agency that owns and publishes 3D Printing Media Network and 3D Printing Business Directory – is growing and further expanding its reach. To best cater to the growing communication demands of all major players in the world of additive manufacturing, the company’s editorial division is happy to welcome Tess Boissonneault as International Editor in Chief Editor, for the News and Editorial division (3D Printing Media Network).
Earlier this year we learned that Italian additive manufacturing company CRP Technology would play a critical role in the development of Ego Corsa, an electric racebike designed by Italian motorcycle manufacturer Energica. The motorbike, which is expected to compete in the FIM Enel MotoE World Cup, is moving ahead in its development with the help of 3D printed parts, CRP Technology tells us.
CELLINK, the Swedish startup that created one of the first universal bioinks and manufacturers cost effective bioprinters, is working on a EU co-funded project called TumorPrint. The project aims to develop and commercialize a Specific Bioprinting platform, including bioinks, software and hardware, specialized for printing of human cancer tumors.
Lockheed Martin has embraced a 3D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can’t even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final rounds of quality testing this month, ending a multi-year development program to create giant, high-pressure tanks that carry fuel on board satellites.
3D printing enables a level of customization beyond your wildest dreams! However, the success of these types of products is very challenging to navigate because the meaning and value of “customization” is very different per industry.
Besides colliding hadrons to unravel the misteries of the Universe, CERN technology is at the heart of many things that have become widespread today, from CD’s to the Internet to the Cloud. They of course use 3D printers at CERN (although not subatomic ones) ad this time New Zealand based MARS Bioimaging used a CERN technology to produce a machine capable of creating the first color X-ray 3D scan of a human.