Tooling

BEAMIT signs letter of intent to purchase 15 machines from SLM Solutions

BEAMIT, Italy’s largest additive manufacturing service bureau, expands its additive manufacturing activities and continues to rely on proven SLM® multi-laser technology. The Italian service provider signed a letter of intent to purchase 15 Selective Laser Melting machines from SLM Solutions within the next three years. The commitment emphasizes SLM Solutions as the preferred supplier for BEAMIT's machines and shows the continues adoption of additive manufacturing technology.

New signing and a focus on production for XJet at Formnext

On its largest stand to-date, XJet Ltd., the additive manufacturing company, is showcasing a new high volume application at Formnext this week and has signed a new customer for its alumina material. Israeli based business, Tuvia Sharon, shook hands on the deal on the opening of the exhibition in Frankfurt.

EOS demonstrates solutions for flexible, automated metal 3D printing

At the formnext 2019, EOS is showcasing EOS Shared Modules as a production-ready solution. Consisting of various hardware and software modules, the solution simplifies and parallelizes the workflow both upstream and downstream of the build process. Especially when operating multiple 3D printing systems, EOS Shared Modules makes it possible to manufacture high-quality metal parts on an efficient, scalable, profitable basis. EOS Shared Modules is scheduled to be available by the second half of 2020.

DESKTOP METAL LAUNCHES WORLD’S FIRST METAL BINDER JETTING SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR MACHINE SHOPS

Shop System enables affordable batch production of high-quality metal parts on the shop floor starting at $150,000

Layer upon layer – and safe!

First 3D-printed pressure equipment manufactured and certified

Autoclave manufactured by selective laser melting
Adapted geometry allows for faster temperature cycles

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Adira also successful in Additive Manufacturing

Adira is leading the SLM-XL project financed by "Portugal 2020" in the field of additive manufacturing.

Sizeable cut in time and cost: Assotech’s PVC production wins thanks to 3ntr 3D printing

It is often difficult to achieve good results in rubber processing with 3D printers, the needs of this material may require special technical characteristics and many manufacturers of machines and compounds do not invest enough in research because the industrial rubber market is perceived as not rich enough.

Making 3D Printed Heat Sinks a Possibility

Background

Ranking among America’s top aviation schools since 1925, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University offers a variety of programs in aviation, applied science, engineering, computers and business. Its Mechanical Engineering Department is currently involved in groundbreaking research on battery cooling systems. Here, researchers are using the 3devo Composer Filament Maker to mix plastics and phase-change materials (PCM) into high-quality filament that can potentially 3D print lightweight, self-contained heat sinks.

Fast prototyping – 3D printing and mecanum wheels

Wheeled robots equipped with omnidirectional mecanum wheels have been playing a gradually more important role in many industrial branches. Owing to them processes can be quicker, cheaper and more precise, which results in factories becoming leaner.

AM replaces injection moulding - a statement that shakes up

Our annual production with AM has increased from a few articles to 20,000 pieces (per article and order) within a very short time. Thus a serial production has become reality in shortest time. It becomes exciting when a design optimized for AM helps to save work steps and thus costs.

Collaboration in Hybrid Additive Manufacturing

Katsutoshi Matsuura, President of Matsuura Machinery Corporation and Gerhard Knienieder, Managing Director of the Emuge-Franken group, announced at a common press conference at the EMO in Hannover, that they will collaborate initially for 3 years with the development of tooling solutions for the Hybrid Additive Manufacturing market. To offer tangible benefits for the customer in Additive Manufacturing Matsuura utilises a combination of traditional subtractive machining with powder bed additive manufacturing in one machine, as is offered on the LUMEX Hybrid Additive Manufacturing machine platform.