The “Factory of the Future” is everywhere. But what does it actually mean?
The phrase has become ambient noise in manufacturing. Every major industrial player, every technology vendor, every trade show keynote has its own version of...
WATCH | AMUG 2026: A new city, the same community spirit, and the partnerships worth watching
After five consecutive years in Chicago, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group packed up and headed west. AMUG 2026 took place in Reno, Nevada, a...
Some ideas are so obvious they seem impossible. Michael Molitch-Hou’s book is both.
There are projects you come across and immediately think: this needed to exist. Michael Molitch-Hou's Impossible Works: The Book of 3D Printed Art is...
A 200 kN 3D printed aerospike rocket engine powers Aspire’s fully reusable Oryx spacecraft
When we reported last June on Aspire Space's ambition to develop a fully reusable launch vehicle powered by computationally engineered, 3D-printed engines, it was...
Additive Talks | Closer, faster, certified: Where does (distributed) AM stand in aerospace & defense today?
An aircraft is grounded. A critical component is obsolete. The original supplier no longer exists. In aerospace and defense, these scenarios are operational realities...
Ceramic 3D printing sets a new production standard. XJet shows how one industry at a time
Somewhere in a cleanroom in Ohio, USA, spinal implants are being 3D printed in technical ceramics. Elsewhere in Switzerland, watch components are being printed...
JEC World 2026: Additive Manufacturing is in the details
It was mostly a cloudy, occasionally rainy week in Paris, with only brief glimpses of sunshine. Yet inside the halls of JEC World 2026,...
Sintavia develops optimized 3D-printed heat exchanger in two weeks through GPU-accelerated simulation
Sintavia delivered a fully optimized, 3D-printed heat exchanger in just two weeks, powered by GPU-accelerated simulation.
The latest NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPUs and integrated workflows...
How cybersecurity is quietly deciding who gets to use AM in aerospace and defense
In 2024, I sat down with Mark Yampolskiy, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, and a recognized expert in...
L3Harris cuts propulsion component lead times 10× with additive manufacturing.
L3Harris Technologies has improved its use of additive manufacturing for parts used in air-breathing hypersonic engines. By refining these 3D-printing processes, the company can...