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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.

5 days ago | 3dprint.com | Joris Peels

08:00 am by Joris Peels 3D Printing Øyvind Tafjord runs Visitech, a firm that makes the light engines that power a lot of the DLP machines we use in Additive. We talk to Øyvind about light engines, their market, competition, and the logic of really large vat polymerization systems. Øyvind thinks that vat polymerization systems using scrolling light engines of several meters by several meters would push Additive into low cost production. We also talk about what it is like to run a business...