News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Engineers at Washington State University (WSU) and DL ADV-Tech have used 3D printing to develop a means of detecting exposure to the potentially-carcinogenic herbicide glyphosate.
Korea-based biotech startup Plcoskin is set to lead an international joint research project focused on developing a new type of 3D printed breast implant.
Nominations for the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards are now open, have your say who is leading the industry now.
When AM, especially metal AM, broke onto the global manufacturing scene and became understood as a technology that could be used to make final parts—not just prototypes—with fewer or no geometric restrictions, engineers around the world began to understand that they had to rethink the way they designed these parts. This concept became known as DfAM, an acronym for Design for Additive Manufacturing. As VELO3D becomes the first new entry in the metal powder bed fusion segment to truly scale, with revenues of nearly $100 million expected in the next fiscal year, and makes it to the NYSE (VLD) after the merger with billionaire Barry Sternlicht’s SPAC company JAWS Spitfire, CEO Benny Buller tells us that we need to move away from “obsolete and abused concepts such as DfAM and workflow automation if we want AM to really live up to its promise”. As disrupting manufacturing paradigms is exactly what AM has been doing since the start, this sounds like something we want to hear more about.
The metal additive manufacturing market is currently thriving, with growing adoption across various high-profile industries and healthy investments. It is not by accident that the technology is gaining prominence and seeing such growth: metal AM companies are working hard to bring industrial-grade metal AM machines to market and to continually improve their products and services. Among them is Additive Industries, an innovative Dutch company that has built up a solid reputation in the metal AM space thanks to its modular, large-format PBF MetalFAB platform. We caught up with the company’s CEO, Ian C. Howe, to talk about what Additive Industries has already achieved, its future plans and how it fits into the broader metal AM segment.
Ikea hacking is about modifying and customizing standard, off-the-shelf Ikea products to make them m ...
What would Antoni Gaudí have created with the latest 3D printing technology? Would the unique, compl ...
Brose, a global automotive supplier, is now confirmed as one of the first participants in the High-Speed Sintering (HSS) Early-Access Beta Program for the VX1000 HSS 3D printer. The company will work with voxeljet AG as a cooperation partner to further develop the VX1000 HSS for use in additive series production of polymer components for the automotive industry. With HSS, voxeljet combines the advantages of two existing additive technologies: selective laser sintering and binder jetting, giving the benefit of both SLS part properties and binder-jetting productivity. The new VX1000 HSS 3D printer has a significantly larger build volume and a faster print speed than previous systems, enabling true additive series production.
Meltio, a laser metal deposition technology manufacturer, welcomed the ESPRIT TNG hybrid manufacturing CAM software to its technology ecosystem, offering machine shops a single interface for preparing and programming high-quality hybrid machining and Direct Energy Deposition (DED) part production.
The Autodesk Netfabb team is ready to release Netfabb 2022 with more integrated support than ever before for 3D printers, starting with the EOS SDK for EOSPrint (PBF), Stratasys Origin One integration (high-speed photopolymerization), Mimaki integration (multi-color material jetting), ExOne X1 160Pro binder jetting and many more hardware manufacturers and machines now natively supported.