3D Printing Processes

3DX Industries, Inc., a state of the art manufacturer specializing in 3D metal printing, has been selected as a featured company in McGraw-Hill Global Educations latest manufacturing publication released on April 30, 2018. The Company hosted a tour of its facility with representatives from McGraw-Hill Global Education (McGraw-Hill) with the …

As an industry, additive manufacturing (AM) is seeking to disrupt industrial production practices that have been dominated by injection molding for over a century. Today, we are closer than ever to that reality: sophisticated 3D printing technologies are proving to be a viable means for fulfilling new manufacturing philosophies centered …

Dr. Karsten Heuser, VP of AM at Siemens, has accurately stated that “AM companies are the digital natives of the manufacturing industry”. This accurate description reflects the fact that – as we have written before – the AM process is the heart of the automated production workflow. While this full …

With today’s equipment, process development and process control are part of using metal additive manufacturing to make critical parts. Even with the application of applied industrial statistical techniques like Design of Experiments (DoE), the experimental workload is significant. A substantial proportion of this time is spent inspecting sample parts under …

Researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany presented a fully 3D printed electric motor for the first time last week at Hannover Messe 2018. 3D printed from a combination of metallic and ceramic pastes, the electric motor is the first of its kind. The 3D printed motor project …

Every major system manufacturer and adopter is working on innovations that could make current DED and metal PBF technologies able to deliver larger parts at lower costs. Australia based Titomic already has that capability and is instead working on getting the word out on its Titomic kinetic fusion technology, which …

While 3D printing has now been around for over thirty years, and some 3D printing designers have been exploring the technology since then, until recently, there was no clear-cut approach to fully exploiting the technology’s potential for near-limitless geometries. The recent rise in the adoption of the acronym DfAM (Design …

Software, tech and industrial giant Siemens has been making very significant investments – and closing very important partnerships – in the world of Additive Manufacturing, a family of technologies that the company views as absolutely strategic for the future. While these moves have directly involved all major AM technologies, after …

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost 3D printer to print electronics on a real hand for the first time. The technology could be used by soldiers on the battlefield to print temporary sensors on their bodies to detect chemical or biological …