Powder recovery in an AM production: What? Why? How?
At the very beginning, when manufacturers started using Additive Manufacturing (AM), the market was severely lacking in materials specifically designed for the technology. Contract manufacturers therefore worked with leftovers and scrap with general specifications,...
Software Automation In Additive Manufacturing: Where Are You In Your Journey?
When early users of Additive Manufacturing technologies started leveraging these technologies, the most important aspect, if not the only one, was to determine if those technologies could effectively achieve rapid prototyping. As users’ needs...
FOCUS: The Importance of Choosing a Metal Additive Manufacturing Service Provider
Once you have decided to go down the Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) route, the next step is at least equally important. While "value for money" is often the most analysed criterion, the truth is,...
A glimpse of the use of furnaces in Additive Manufacturing
Whether it is for homes or for industrial settings, a furnace remains a device that produces heat. In industrial environments, those devices were first used in metallurgy to heat and melt metal or to...
Laser Powder-Bed Fusion or Material Jetting, what technology best suits the production of custom mould inserts?
Insert moulding services are one of the main services offered by digital manufacturers. Such a service helps accelerate the development cycle of products across the medical, automotive, consumer products and electronic components industries. The...
Algorithms and AI, the missing pieces in the Additive Manufacturing Game
Tech companies that emerge out of anonymity often do it with a bang: through a big launch event to capture the public’s attention or by announcing a seed round but I strongly believe the...
2021 in Review: The Year of Recovery in the Additive Manufacturing Industry
Business – Manufacturing – Vertical Industries
From a personal standpoint, reviewing an ending year always makes people go through the lens of experiences – sad or happy - peaks, and trials in their life. That...
FEA…It’s NO LONGER an « engineer thing »
Finding a design that works first, predicting what’s happening inside the AM machine then.
The last time I was at a trade fair - before the pandemic hit - I stopped at a booth because...
A Closer Look at The Automated Dyeing Process For 3D Printed Parts
In the textile industry, dyeing is acknowledged as a pivotal process that provides colour to fabrics. In the additive manufacturing industry on the other hand, the ultimate goal remains the same: provide colour to...
Unveiling the disguised complexities of Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing
With a first patent granted in the 1920s, Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, short for WAAM, is certainly one of the oldest AM processes that exist, yet the technology is the least highlighted in the range...
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