Manufacturing is moving beyond assembly lines that make standardized products to customized equipment and parts. The demand for customization may best be met by the growing trend of additive ...

In the realm of additive manufacturing, what exactly are the distinctions between accuracy, repeatability, and resolution? Accuracy describes how closely a manufacturing machine’s output conforms to a ...

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking at additive manufacturing technologies to rapidly prototype and build equipment components and increasingly, to potentially make replacement parts in the ...

Manufacturers looking to shorten supply chains, eliminate shipping costs and reduce lead times can benefit from additive technologies. One of the top events is coming up this month: RAPID 2012 is an ...

BOSTON-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE:GE), the world’s leading digital industrial company, today announced plans to acquire two suppliers of additive manufacturing equipment, Arcam AB and SLM Solutions ...

A year ago, it was merger mania with companies offering nearly $2 billion to buy each other. Now, the remaining players in the additive manufacturing space are finally poised to complete some mergers, ...

Thanks to groundbreaking concepts such as generative design and topology optimization software, additive manufacturing is liberating design engineers in ways that were unfathomable even a decade ago.

Preventive maintenance can help manufacturers extend the lifespan of additive manufacturing machinery and the parts that they manufacture. However, the required cost and time commitment can make it ...

For the first time, KraussMaffei has exhibited large-scale 3D printing systems for industrial use at the K trade show. Additive Manufacturing will now complement the existing product portfolio ...

This morning President Biden is announcing the Additive Manufacturing Forward (AM Forward) program, a partnership between several large U.S. original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and some of their ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- As the Army drives toward improving readiness today and modernizing future equipment, the Rock Island Arsenal - Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) is ...

Additive manufacturing (also called 3D printing) involves taking digital designs from computer aided design (CAD) software, and laying horizontal cross-sections to manufacture the part. Additive ...