Executive Interviews
Executive Interviews are one-to-one conversations that 3D Printing Media Network journalists regularly have with AM industry leaders, decision-makers, innovators and pioneers. You can find insights, opinions and analyses relative to the biggest challenges that the AM industry is facing, innovative technologies, new applications and much more. This is where you can learn about some of the biggest opportunities that AM presents, straight from those who are making them happen.
While reporting on everything that happens in the world of additive manufacturing, the 3dpbm and 3D Printing Media Network teams have had the privilege to speak with some of the professionals that are contributing to define the future of manufacturing.
If you are an AM industry executive, researcher, engineer or inventor and you would like to share your own views, announce new research and progresses, discuss challenges and opportunities, please contact our team anytime at info@3dpbm.com.
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Repeatability in AM is within reach
Although the company’s headquarters are near Munich, EOS plays at home at the AMTC’s 2021 location in Aachen. The market leader for metal and polymer PBF systems is working hard on constantly improving repeatability in AM and the reproducibility of additive production. That’s the topic that EOS Senior Vice President…
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An additive strategy to rebuild the industrial base in Europe
With previous experiences in BMW, Porsche, MTU Aero Engines and Siemens AG (Power Generation Group), Prof. Michael Süß has seen the rise of additive manufacturing since the very beginning. Today, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oerlikon, he is leading the effort to establish the company’s role in…
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At the crossroads of digital and physical, the dawn of a revolution
When Shapeways was founded in 2007, very few people, perhaps not even its three founders, could truly envision how the company would have evolved. Even those who understood back then the potential of AM, to become a democratizing, distributed manufacturing technology, could foresee how that long-term vision was going to…
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The six elements to build Momentum for Growth at AMTC
The AM industry’s back and the AM industry’s highest-level conference is also back with a new hybrid format and in the new Aachen location. Just two years ago—but it seems like a lot longer—we were at MTC3 speaking with Dr. Sven Hicken about his new role as Head of Oerlikon’s…
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Velo3D sets out to disrupt metal AM as you may know it
When AM, especially metal AM, broke onto the global manufacturing scene and became understood as a technology that could be used to make final parts—not just prototypes—with fewer or no geometric restrictions, engineers around the world began to understand that they had to rethink the way they designed these parts.…
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Additive manufacturing at ESA, the alpha and omega
Space is the initial frontier for additive manufacturing. It is where AM makes the most sense and where it has made the most sense from the very start. As Head of the Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division at the European Space Agency, Dr. Tommaso Ghidini is in charge of identifying…
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Ziggzagg is targeting lights-off AM production of 200,000-part series
During the recent AM Trends in EMEA study conducted in collaboration with HP, 3pdbm worked on understanding AM’s role in the digitalization of manufacturing among leading industrial parts producers, across the major European markets. Ziggzagg’s CEO Stijn Paridaens offered a key contribution in understanding these dynamics and digitalization strategies. The…
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JuggerBot 3D and DSM, where composite materials and industrial 3D printing meet
Across industrial sectors and the broader manufacturing world, composites are gaining prominence for their enhanced material properties and cost efficiency. Additive manufacturing, for its part, is poised to radically transform how these materials are used compared to highly labor-intensive conventional methods. At this junction of composite materials and additive manufacturing…
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OECHSLER and Carbon, a powerhouse team in polymer 3D printing
Founded in 1864, Germany-based OECHSLER has well over a century of experience in the production of plastic parts and products. This long-running practice has provided a strong foundation for the company’s current offering, which consists of one of the most robust polymer 3D printing production chains in existence. Eager to…
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Sand 3D printing boosts GRATZ Engineering’s production
GRATZ Engineering boosted its prototype production by integrating sand 3D printing into its technical business units. The German automotive supplier from the northeast of Baden-Württemberg recognized 3D printing’s enormous potential back in the nineties when it was still a very young technology. Since then, GRATZ has relied on fast metal…
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