Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.95
August 11, 2020
…providers of the accelerated geometry kernel used to build additive manufacturing (AM) hardware and software solutions, announce a long-term licensing agreement with HP to help power their next-generation cloud and edge-based digital manufacturing solutions, the companies report. The collaboration is designed to bring performance, efficiency, automation, and extensibility to the company's growing portfolio of digital manufacturing products, the companies add. This agreement demonstrates HP's commitment to industry innovation in three key areas; quality, performance and automation. “From the very beginning, HP recognized the potential of Dyndrite's kernel technology. As the first member of the Dyndrite Development Council, we quickly identified…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.53
August 11, 2020
…to date, Stratasys, has announced that Latvia-based specialist aerospace additive manufacturing service provider, AM Craft, has purchased four large-scale production-grade Stratasys F900 3D Printers to provide certifiable 3D printed parts for a much wider range of aircraft interior applications. This includes everything from aircraft seating, paneling and ducting, as well as making it much more affordable for its aerospace customers to introduce customization within the cabin. “In recent years, we’ve seen an ongoing demand for 3D printed production parts among major aircraft OEMs,” comments Jānis Jātnieks, co-founder and CEO, of AM Craft. “Although COVID-19 has shocked the industry in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.81
August 04, 2020
…Corporation is partnering with Origin, a company dedicated to additive mass manufacturing. Origin creates 3D printers that can print a wide variety of products with performance characteristics and tailored to mass manufacturing. “We think of Origin like the Apple of 3D printers; they own the platform, which is the 3D printer but their end customers choose which app to build using their platform by choosing their own proprietary material,” says Nicolas Sauvage, managing director of TDK Ventures. “TDK is a unique partner for Origin, with its extensive expertise in mass manufacturing and electronic material components that are in the hundreds…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.94
July 21, 2020
America Makes and Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate Structural Materials, Metals Branch (AFRL/RXCM), announce the awardees of the additive manufacturing (AM) Modeling Challenge Series with $235K to be divided among the awardees. Launched in November 2019 and comprised of four individual challenges, the AFRL AM Modeling Challenge Series represented another innovative approach America Makes and AFRL are taking to advance the AM industry, the organizations note. The goal of the Challenge Series was to improve the accuracy of model predictions for metal AM, using INCONEL® nickel-chromium alloy 625 (IN625). Challenge participants were provided calibration and validation data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.50
July 16, 2020
…printing gains increasing support a feasible alternative to traditional manufacturing, it also creates opportunity for a wave of new cybersecurity risks, from theft of design intellectual property (IP) to malicious destruction of parts and planned system failures. 3D printing has been in the spotlight as the market incorporates new and more sophisticated offerings sporting novel printing technologies and advanced materials choices. At the same time, this next-generation of high-powered printers has been retooled to fit the needs of mainstream design and manufacturing engineers, from a cost and accessibility standpoint. The result has been increased adoption of 3D printing for industrial-grade…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.28
July 14, 2020
The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) presented its DINO (Distinguished INnovator Operator) Award for additive manufacturing expertise and service to 10 individuals. In lieu of an on-stage ceremony at the annual AMUG Conference, the DINO award presentations were a virtual event. “These are unprecedented times, so we took the unprecedented step of making virtual award presentations,” says Carl Dekker, AMUG president. “We did everything we could to preserve the suspense and surprise to make this a special moment in the additive manufacturing careers of our new DINOs.” Rather than being called to the stage from the crowd at the conference,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.37
July 07, 2020
…projects with Pennsylvania universities have received funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program to advance binder jet 3D printing in collaboration with The ExOne Co. In all, the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) awarded $2.8M to Pennsylvania universities for 43 projects to advance manufacturing technology projects. ExOne binder jet systems currently 3D print more than 20 metals, ceramics and composite materials, and R&D work continues to further advance the production technology. “The Manufacturing PA program is helping ExOne to expand our research and development efforts in important ways with the assistance of Pennsylvania’s outstanding universities and other technology…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.06
July 07, 2020
SME, a professional association committed to advancing manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, announces that 15 achievers have been selected to receive the 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. A 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, Michael P. Sealy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Sealy was one of 15 awardees selected. The 2020 awardees, from the U.S. and Canada, have centered their research and management efforts around manufacturing processes, environmental sustainability, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, nanomanufacturing, biomedical manufacturing, metalworking fluids, civil and environmental engineering,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.04
July 06, 2020
The BMW Group officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus in Munich. The new facility will combine production of prototype and series parts, along with research into new 3D printing technologies, and associate training for the global rollout of toolless production, the company says. The campus, which cost €15 million, will allow the BMW Group to “develop its position as technology leader in the utilization of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry,” according to a company press release. “Additive manufacturing is already an integral part of our worldwide production system today, and established in our digitalisation strategy,” said Milan Nedeljković,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.67
June 08, 2020
…expand the advancement of industrial 3D printing and digital manufacturing. The expanded alliance with BASF centers around HP’s newly announced polypropylene material for additive manufacturing. The HP 3D High Reusability PP enabled by BASF was developed and qualified for HP’s Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D printing solution to enable companies to design and produce 3D printed parts faster, more cost-effectively, more sustainably, and at higher volumes, the company says.http://www.hp.com/go/3Dprinting. “The advancement of our long-standing partnership with HP truly demonstrates our shared vision to help transform industries, enable sustainable production, and enable our customers to shape the Additive Manufacturing industrialization,” said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.97
June 08, 2020
…dp polar GmbH, enabling its AMpolar i2 to print additive manufacturing parts on an industrial scale, the companies report. Based in Germany, dp polar designs, develops and delivers industrial 3D printing systems for the automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering and consumer industries. The AMpolar i2’s Additive Manufacturing process uses an array of Xaar 1003 printheads to jet parts at volume, and at a reduced cost compared to traditional 3D printing machines. The productive single-pass printing process delivers build volumes of up to 700 liters across its continuously rotating print platform. For example, the AMpolar i2 machine is able to produce over…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.37
June 04, 2020
The Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA), a global trade group created to promote green benefits of additive manufacturing (AM), has selected Jeremy Faludi, Ph.D., a leading researcher of sustainable engineering, to oversee its first commissioned university research project, a literature-based systematic review on the environmental sustainability of metal AM. “This project will provide our membership and the public in general with an excellent survey of existing research on the sustainability benefits of AM,” says Sherry Handel, the AMGTA’s executive director. Dr. Faludi, LEED AP BD+C, is a sustainable design strategist and researcher. He is assistant professor of design engineering…
