Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.79
July 02, 2019
…and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often challenged to deploy additive manufacturing (AM) technology because of the high cost of entry. A European Union (EU) program can help address this challenge. The EU-funded AdditiveManufacturABLE (AMable) program is helping SMEs develop their ideas into final products, as well as creating a digital framework to provide access to European AM knowledge. According to the Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), the EU’s primary source of results from funded projects, AMable plans to open a new call for proposals in July. The AMable project was launched “to speed up the adoption of AM…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.40
July 01, 2019
…producers, but also for companies that develop products using additive manufacturing. Navigating the Ecosystem DRM is a broad, end-to-end strategy, one that promises to help control product designs and documentation as well as part quality and equipment use, explains Koen Neutjens, business development manager at Belgium-based Materialise NV. Perhaps more importantly, it assures that people can only print parts on authorized machinery at authorized facilities. To a machine shop or fabricator, it might seem silly to ask for permission before manufacturing a part, but for those who 3D print parts, the concept isn’t all that far-fetched. The chances are good…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.16
June 25, 2019
…will deliver even more value to our foundry and manufacturing customers who rely on our industrial 3D printers,” said ExOne CEO John Hartner. “We are proud to be the first industrial 3D printer to fully integrate the latest of Siemens control, sensing and motion technologies and this new MindSphere technology, which will give our customers a new level of control and plant integration.” “We are proud to further strengthen our partnership with ExOne and advance the industrialization of additive manufacturing,” says Dr. Karsten Heuser, vice president of Additive Manufacturing at Siemens Digital Industries. Siemens brings new digital technologies and its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.75
June 25, 2019
…printers, and will shortly be releasing a new 3D additive manufacturing ecosystem (the 5200), which HP says will bring “new levels of manufacturing predictability, efficiency, repeatability, and quality” to volume part production. They are doing what HP has done for 70 years, use existing products to jumpstart research. From an audio oscillator for its first customer (Walt Disney Company) to microwaves, from calculators to personal computers, and now from 2D wide format printers to 3D, HP is putting its considerable size and vast R&D expertise to work in additive manufacturing. “The future is distributed manufacturing,” HP’s Ramon Pastor, general manager…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.18
June 20, 2019
At its 31st annual conference, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) presented Elizabeth Goode of Goode Ink with its President's Award. Goode, the eighth to receive this award, is an additive manufacturing veteran and owner of Goode Ink, which provides consulting services for marketing and strategy. For the past nine years, she has been a key advisor to the AMUG Board. Presently, Goode is AMUG’s principal consultant. Elizabeth Goode received AMUG’s President’s Award for her guidance, counsel and support over the past nine years. Image courtesy of AMUG. “AMUG has relied on Elizabeth’s guidance to become what it is today,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.12
June 13, 2019
Take a closer look at how Stratasys Additive Manufacturing is helping a company entrenched in Powersports vehicles drive innovation forward. Polaris is most commonly known for developing snowmobiles and off-road vehicles. With all the hands-on assembly work that the company does in the plant, they've begun to use 3D printing to change the way that they make tooling. Much of what the company does works around different styles of tooling. Polaris says the biggest benefit of partnering with Stratasys and their technology is the ability to iterate on new tooling designs.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.52
June 12, 2019
…the doors to its new 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain, said to be one of the world’s largest and most advanced research and development facilities for the next-generation technologies powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, HP says. The new Center brings together hundreds of the world’s leading additive manufacturing experts in more than 150,000 square feet of innovation space—about the size of three football fields—to transform design and manufacturing. Exterior view of HP’s new 150,000 sq. ft 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain. Image courtesy of HP. The 3+ acre…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.36
June 11, 2019
…traditional methods. According to Chris Botting, Materials, Processes and Additive Manufacturing Engineer at Marshall ADG, the ability to create accurate, repeatable and reliable 3D printed parts using aerospace-approved materials are key factors in achieving the performance requirements necessary for use within aircraft. “When manufacturing on complex engineering programs, we need a method that can create an accurate, complex, functional and lightweight duct efficiently with minimal tooling costs – this is where 3D printing fits perfectly,” says Chris Botting, Materials, Processes and Additive Manufacturing Engineer at Marshall ADG. “But we also need to ensure that the ducting work produced will be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.46
June 07, 2019
…validation and verification, the company says.. “Design, engineering and manufacturing practices are changing at lightning speed — organizations are leaning on simulation and digitizing their processes to bring cutting-edge products to customers faster than ever,” says Shane Emswiler, vice president and general manager for ANSYS electronics, fluids and mechanical business units at ANSYS. “This release empowers customers to do more with multiphysics simulation in less time. ANSYS 2019 R2 automates simulation while making it easier to use.” Highlights of the ANSYS 2019 R2 release include: ANSYS 2019 R2 introduces a user interface in ANSYS Mechanical that speeds user adoption and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.30
June 01, 2019
…application for the new geometry kernel is the Dyndrite Additive Toolkit, designed to improve 3D printing workflows. The toolkit directly imports CAD design files, maintains original spline data and uses the data to drive additive manufacturing processes. Dyndrite says working directly with CAD data provides numerous advantages over STL files. “STL is a 30-year-old format that, while helping to launch the 3D printing revolution, now serves as a major bottleneck in additive workflows,” stated Dyndrite in its initial product announcement. “STL files are difficult to safely modify and typically require time-consuming manual repair work prior to being used. Additionally, their…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.23
May 31, 2019
Nano Dimension Ltd., an additive electronics provider, has received a grant approval from the Israel Innovation Authority for developing hardware, in cooperation with Harris Corporation, that will fly on the International Space Station (ISS) and communicate with Harris’ ground-based satellite tracking station in Florida. This project will provide a systematic analysis of 3D printed materials for radio frequency (RF) space systems, especially for nanosatellites. The total approved budget for the Israeli portion of this project is approximately $416,000, of which the Israel Innovation Authority will finance 40%. According to the terms of the grant, Nano Dimension will pay royalties on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.80
May 30, 2019
…launched 3Diligent Consulting, a new division that works with manufacturing businesses to develop strategies and designs that that can provide them competitive advantage for Industry 4.0, according to the company. As a division of 3Diligent, which also has a manufacturing division with a global manufacturing footprint, 3Diligent Consulting combines on-the-ground manufacturing expertise with the pedigree of a top-five global management consulting firm. 3Diligent Consulting is led by Cullen Hilkene, CEO of 3Diligent and formerly of Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy and Operations practice. “There are a number of companies delivering Industry 4.0 consulting services, but none have the unique perspective of actually…
