News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Shapemode a leading 3D design and 3D printing studio based in Milan, Italy, is working with 10 pioneering Italian designer to explore the possibilities offered by use of generative software for a concept “ReMesh” at Salone del Mobile in Milan.
AtlanticProCare, New England’s leading provider of customized mobility solutions and custom prostheses for amputees, has partnered with several fabricators to test 3D printed prostheses. The Maine based prosthetics supplier is currently working with three 3D printing companies — Extremiti 3D, Create O&P and Standard Cyborg — each of whom have unique offerings based on proprietary software, hardware and materials. AtlanticProCare provides custom created CAD designs for the printers and then tests the outputs. AtlanticProCare is the only prosthetics and orthotics practice in Maine participating.
LPW Technology, a market leader in developing, manufacturing and supplying metal powders for additive manufacturing, received a strategic investment in its growing business by leading 3D printing solutions provider Stratasys.
Global aerospace and defense manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully hot-fire tested a full-scale, additively manufactured thrust chamber copper assembly for the RL10 rocket engine that was built from a copper alloy using selective laser melting (SLM) technology. Aerojet Rocketdyne is a global leader developing propulsion and energetics solutions for the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets.
On Site Robotics is a collaborative project of IAAC and TECNALIA, which demonstrates the potentials of additive manufacturing technology and robotics in the production of sustainable low-cost buildings that can be built on site with 100% natural materials. IAAC’ extensive experience in materials and robotics for construction is now moving toward real commercial applications.
New implementation of 3D printing in manufacturing process cuts more than four months out of the manufacturing lead time for a component onboard the U.S. Air Force’s AEHF-6 military satellite.
The next step in collaborative 3D printing could be something called mobile manufacturing. Si ...
The name Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik has been synonymous since 1979 with implants in craniomaxillofacial surgery. Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik is a company that belongs to the KLS Martin Group. Resorbable implants were added in 2000. The most recent development are patient-specific individual implants for correction through distraction and osteosynthesis in the event of traumas or deformities. Initially manufactured by conventional means, since 2013 these implants have also been manufactured additively. This is based on the LaserCUSING process from Concept Laser, whose M2 cusing machine is used at Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik. Behind this lies a simple basic approach which has the ability to transform surgery: for the individual patient rather than a standard solution. To manufacture patient-specific implants, Frank Reinauer, Head of Innovation and Production of Biomaterials at Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik, now consistently relies on additively manufactured implants.
Is bricklaying a form of additive manufacturing? Not really, however if we introduce a digital and robotic element to it, it may just be considered a type of 3D printing. That’s what Australian company Fast Robotics refers to when defining its impressive Hadrian X robotic bricklaying technology. Looking at the video (below) that shows how the system works, we tend to agree.
EnvisionTEC, a global leader in 3D printers for the in-ear device and monitor market, and 3Shape, a global leader in 3D scanning and CAD/CAM software, today launch a new turnkey system for scanning, modeling and printing in-ear devices. The system enables fast, mass customized production of in-ear devices for hearing care.