Additive Manufacturing Media

12/13/2024

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The Cool Parts Show! 3D printing!

11/22/2024

What kind of parts make sense for ?

Peter Zelinski reports from the Colibrium Additive booth at Formnext where he learned how the company is working to strengthen its binder and has introduced a high volume binder jetting system.

11/21/2024

Robots and additive manufacturing combine in a single production cell to create a niobium nozzle.

10/25/2024

Audience members have similar questions. What is the Department of Defense’s interest in making hardware via 3D printing over conventional methods? Here are three manufacturing concerns that are particular to the military.

What is the Department of Defense’s interest in 3D printing over conventional manufacturing? Here are three concerns that are particular to the military.

10/11/2024

Additive manufacturing and robots are parallel technologies, both digitally enabled tools for manufacturing that are advancing in adoption. But they also enable each other.

In this episode of AM Radio, Gardner Business Media Robots & Autonomy editor Julia Hider joins Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski to discuss how AM and robots interact, and specific examples of this interaction. 🤖

Robots & Autonomy editor Julia Hider joins the AM Radio podcast to talk about how 3D printing and robotics are advancing and assisting each other.

10/08/2024

Can you print high-quality parts using recycled thermoplastic powder? JawsTec saves 2 tons of waste per year by investing in SLS printers that reuse scrap to make new parts.

10/03/2024

Cranial implants are typically made from titanium or PEEK; in this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we look at how implants made from a bioceramic can improve osseointegration and healing.

Featured in episode: Kepler Uniklinikum, Lithoz

Thank you to our sponsor Carpenter Additive.

Cranial implants are typically made from titanium or PEEK; in this episode, we look at how implants made from a bioceramic can improve osseointegration and healing.

09/24/2024

Additive manufacturing suits the U.S. Coast Guard's culture of shipboard problem-solving. Here is how 3D printers on ships promise to deliver not just substantial cost savings but also an aid to crew capabilities and morale.

AM suits the Coast Guard culture of shipboard problem-solving. Here is how 3D printers on ships will deliver savings and aid crew capability and morale.

09/20/2024

🔊 Sound up! It's our assessment of at IMTS!

🔥 Listen now at https://bit.ly/amradio_imts or wherever you like to listen to podcasts.

In this week's episode of AM Radio, Stephanie Hendrixson talks with Peter Zelinski about:
✔️ equipment launches during International Manufacturing Technology Show
✔️ advances in usability and accessibility
✔️ AM’s role in the casting supply chain
✔️ the increased presence of service providers
✔️ how the next “phase” of AM will look different

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09/12/2024

Too many caption ideas...

🤔 "Meet the xtremely talented Stephanie Hendrixson."

🤔 "Only on day 4 of IMTS!"

🤔 "It's HendriXson, not Hendrickson."

🤔 "AM will make ya JUMP, JUMP!"

🤔 "I don't think that was decaf."

But seriously, folks, Formnext Chicago is coming to McCormick Place in April 2025. If you're at IMTS and plan to attend Formnext Chicago, register for FREE at the Formnext Stage.

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International Manufacturing Technology Show

Pictured: Additive Manufacturing Media executive editor Stephanie Hendrixson

09/12/2024

Robots and additive manufacturing go together. Do robots and hybrid manufacturing go together?

AM's Peter Zelinski reports from the KUKA booth at International Manufacturing Technology Show.

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Caracol AM, One-Off Robotics, Robotic Solutions, Inc.

09/11/2024

You have a 3D printed part. How do you capture model data? How do you validate the part?

AM's Peter Zelinski reports from the Hexagon AB booth at International Manufacturing Technology Show.

09/09/2024

We're almost through day 1 of the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS).

Pictured:
AM's Stephanie Hendrixson at the Gardner Business Media, Inc. booth. Stop by to see how AM and GBM can inform and further your manufacturing experience. And look for Stephanie covering all things AM in the Additive Manufacturing Sector.

AM's Peter Zelinski speaking on the Formnext Stage. He discussed his observations from a survey of additive use across the broad industrial audience of Gardner Business Media.

Stay tuned for images and videos from the show floor!

09/05/2024

One engine, two parts.

Gas turbine engines are typically complex machines, consisting of hundreds or thousands of parts that must be sourced and assembled. Several organizations partnered to see if a turbojet engine could instead be made from just two components, manufactured in one build through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF).

The result is the engine seen in this episode of , with a monolithic rotor and monolithic stationary shell both produced from Inconel 718 in a single build.

Mentioned in episode: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi, PTC, Ansys, Materialise, MathWorks, Hexagon AB, ZEISS Group

The Show is sponsored by Carpenter Additive.

Rather than hundreds of parts, this turbojet engine — a 2023 winner of The Cool Parts Showcase — was 3D printed in 2 pieces, rotor embedded inside stationary shell.

09/04/2024

Manufacturers looking to adopt additive manufacturing (AM) aren’t always looking to completely replace traditional subtractive processes.

Instead, they might be looking for a hybrid manufacturing solution that offers them the best of both methods. That was the case for Nicholson Manufacturing when it started looking for a more functional AM software that would enable it to make the knife tips for its ring debarkers more rugged and long lasting.

The company landed with a unique add-on by Mastercam.

Nicholson Manufacturing chose the Mastercam APlus specialized add-on for CAM and AM to produce more durable MLX knife tips.

09/03/2024

3D Systems Corporation has what is possibly the largest metal additive production facility. The biggest share of the work the company carries out at its Colorado facility is making titanium guides for jaw reconstruction surgery.

AM editor-in-chief Peter Zelinski visited the 3D Systems facility recently and left with several lessons in personalized production.

Tailor-made manufacturing is one of AM’s richest possibilities, but the success factors inevitably draw on more than AM.

08/29/2024

Here is the classic frustration for the engineer inventor: A big, breakthrough idea that ought to be attainable advances through 90% of the development needed to make it real, only to stall at that point because of one vexing, unanticipated detail that presents a problem too difficult to solve in a cost-effective way.

ReelView Fishing faced an electronics obstacle in its technology for underwater video. AM for moldmaking allowed for the speed to iterate to a solution.

08/28/2024

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