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Using 3D printing to build a nuclear reactor

May 15, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Here’s an unusual application for 3D printing—printing a nuclear reactor core. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working on a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core. The approach to the Transformational Challenge … [Read more...] about Using 3D printing to build a nuclear reactor

Filed Under: Directed Energy Deposition, Featured, News Tagged With: oakridgenationallabs

A new approach to powder bed fusion makes more materials available for additive manufacture

April 27, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Applications using metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes continue to increase year on year with considerable R&D activities across all key industrial sectors. The generic term “metal AM” provides an umbrella for a number of specific but … [Read more...] about A new approach to powder bed fusion makes more materials available for additive manufacture

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Featured, Industrial, Materials, Powder Bed Fusion Tagged With: waylandadditive

Could coating surfaces with copper kill the COVID-19 virus?

April 15, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Australian company SPEE3D is reporting that it has successfully developed and tested a fast and affordable way to 3D print anti-microbial copper onto metal surfaces. Laboratory tests have shown that touch surfaces modified by this process ‘contact … [Read more...] about Could coating surfaces with copper kill the COVID-19 virus?

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Featured, Material Jetting, Materials, Medical Tagged With: spee3d

3D printing face masks for the general population

April 10, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

It’s not just the healthcare community that needs personal protection. The general population needs a practical, reusable device when out in public. Answering this challenge is the manufacturing specialist FIT Additive Manufacturing Group. They are … [Read more...] about 3D printing face masks for the general population

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Featured, Medical, News Tagged With: fitadditivemanufacturing

The 3D printing industry steps up to help battle the COVID19 pandemic

April 3, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

The additive industry is making major contributions to the fight against the COVID19 pandemic. If you’ve checked out www.makepartsfast.com recently, you’ve seen a number of news stories of 3D printing personal protection equipment (PPE) for … [Read more...] about The 3D printing industry steps up to help battle the COVID19 pandemic

Filed Under: Featured, Leslie's blog, Podcasts Tagged With: xometry

Micro molding – The need for collaboration and DfM

March 23, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

There are a certain set of rules and understandings of the molding process at the macro level that simply don’t work at the micro level. The flow of molten plastic, it's cooling, warpage, necessary venting and gating … are all different when molding … [Read more...] about Micro molding – The need for collaboration and DfM

Filed Under: Featured, Injection Molding Production, Rapid Injection Molding Tagged With: accumold

Overcoming metrology bottlenecks in additive manufacturing

March 19, 2020 By WTWH Editor Leave a Comment

By Eric Felkel, Product Manager (Optical Profilers), Zygo Corp. Undoubtedly there are many benefits associated with the use of additive manufacturing (AM) as a production technology. Across industries, manufacturers exploit the fact that through … [Read more...] about Overcoming metrology bottlenecks in additive manufacturing

Filed Under: 3D Scanning, digital manufacturing, Featured Tagged With: zygocorp

3D printed door handle developed in effort to reduce spread of Coronavirus

March 16, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

3D printing technology may lend a hand in preventing the spread of the Coronavirus. Materialise, a Belgium-based pioneer in 3D printing, has designed a 3D printed door opener that makes it possible to open and close doors with your arm, removing the … [Read more...] about 3D printed door handle developed in effort to reduce spread of Coronavirus

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Materialise

How to choose between additive manufacturing and traditional alternatives for production

March 13, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Users may be confused, and in some instances disillusioned, about the role that 3D printing can really take on when looking at production scenarios. There is a lot of work to be done to illustrate that 3D printing is really now established as a … [Read more...] about How to choose between additive manufacturing and traditional alternatives for production

Filed Under: digital manufacturing, Featured Tagged With: 3dprintuk

How to optimize performance and manufacturability for additive manufacturing

March 11, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

As additive manufacturing (AM) racks up more and more success stories, scrutiny on the process is becoming increasingly forensic in nature, with a focus on the areas that the technology must improve to allow it to compete on more equal terms with … [Read more...] about How to optimize performance and manufacturability for additive manufacturing

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Featured, News, Software Tagged With: additiveflow

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