Matt Kremenetsky

2 days ago | 3dprint.com | Matt Kremenetsky

Amidst the U.S. military’s years-long additive manufacturing (AM) ramp-up, the U.S. Army has frequently turned to Rockford, Illinois’ Ingersoll Machine Tools to help produce custom hardware: most notably, components for the additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) system at Rock Island Arsenal (also in Illinois), often referred to as “the world’s largest metal 3D printer.” Now, in Ingersoll Machine Tools’ latest work for the military, the company has delivered a factory-in-a-box system to the...

3 days ago | 3dprint.com | Matt Kremenetsky

09:00 am by Matt Kremenetsky 3D PrintingAutomationBusinessGeneral IndustryRobotics Lately, Comau, the Italy-based manufacturer of robotic systems owned by One Equity Partners and automaker Stellantis, has formed a growing number of partnerships with companies in the additive manufacturing (AM) space, highlighting the increasing role that robotic arm systems are playing in AM hardware. An especially noteworthy aspect of Comau’s heightened attention to the AM market is the diversity of the...

3 days ago | 3dprint.com | Matt Kremenetsky

GKN Aerospace, the UK-based leading manufacturer of aircraft components, has adopted AM Explorer, a platform made by Swedish software firm Interspectral, at its Centre of Excellence for Engine Systems in Sweden. GKN will incorporate the software into its additive manufacturing (AM) workflow, including its use with the Nikon SLM Solutions NXG XII 600. AM Explorer combines AI and 3D visualization capabilities to help prevent print defects before they occur.

4 days ago | 3dprint.com | Matt Kremenetsky

No amount of attention that the additive manufacturing (AM) industry devoted to the challenge of workforce development could be considered “too much” these days. Nowhere is this truer, perhaps, than in the US, which already has almost half a million open manufacturing jobs at a time when the nation is attempting to ramp up its generational effort to reshore supply chains.

1 week ago | 3dprint.com | Matt Kremenetsky

One of the most powerful aspects of academic research is its propensity to lead to discoveries that weren’t even on the researchers’ radar at the start of a given investigation. Such circumstances led to a University of Illinois (UI) research team’s realization that 3D printed parts leave signatures of the machines that produced them, which are detectable by AI.