EOS on the cost consideration and where it makes sense to integrate digitization and automation in an AM production environment
Put two Additive Manufacturing veterans together, with respective expertise on both the commercial and current economic market of the AM industry and the technological side, and you can expect a conversation on insights that...
OPINION | AM 101: Tips from three industry experts to Reduce Costs and Lead Time in 3D printing.
Engineers and designers have been manufacturing prototypes for decades, but the tools, materials and processed used to create them continuously evolve. The truth is, in order to close the gap between as designed and...
DOSSIER | Heat Treatment for Additive Manufactured Parts: A Dirty Little Secret that is yet to be understood
In a previous dossier dedicated to the use of furnaces in additive manufacturing, we found out that the reasons that may help catalogue the type of furnaces manufacturers will use, are often dependent on...
[DOSSIER] AM & Casting: How is Additive Manufacturing impacting metal casting (and vice versa)?
If one only looks at the manufactured part, at first glance, it could be easy to say that casting technology has nothing to envy to metal 3D printing as both technologies can deliver parts...
4 software strategies that can be explored to enable Lightweighting with Additive Manufacturing
How many times have you seen the word “lightweighting” used next to “additive manufacturing”? When one looks beyond the buzz that this combination of words might create, we’ll come to realize that this manufacturing concept...
Conflux Technology: Reinventing high-performance heat exchangers with Additive Manufacturing first, then applying this expertise to other areas.
I knew, from day one, that Conflux Technology was the kind of company I would closely watch in this industry. Founded in 2017, it came out of nowhere last year by closing a Series...
DOSSIER: The Tiny World of micro-additive manufacturing technologies
In the manufacturing industry in general, most innovations evolve around the ability to produce large 3D printed parts. However, with the growing demand for miniaturized devices in electronics, biotechnology, automotive, and aerospace, there is...
Updated: The growing use of polymers in Additive Manufacturing : The particular case of PEAK materials
Manufacturing technologies can be a true game changer in the production of parts if all components of the manufacturing process are used properly. Materials play a key role in this revolution: producers must not...
The must-have technical features in an automated powder removal system
With key examples on medical 3D printing.
Most of the time when we talk to an additive manufacturing user, one of the challenges that keeps coming back when using additive manufacturing is the post-processing stage...
DOSSIER: The different roads that lead to effective 3D bioprinting
Whenever one reads an announcement that highlights 3D printed organs, one can easily be tempted to think that these organs can already be implanted within a human body but reality shows that there is...