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Ricoh 3D Zooms in on Production Data with CO-AM for Continuous Improvement

After switching to Materialise CO-AM for integrated ordering and production management, they're now offering a smoother, more customer-friendly ordering process.

How Hybrid Manufacturing Bridges the Gap Between Additive Speed and CNC Precision

Hybrid manufacturing removes production constraints on design ambition. Engineers who once scaled back geometries to accommodate manufacturing realities can now pursue optimal designs that maximize performance.

Husky Corporation Harnesses 3D Systems' PSLA 3D Printing to Redefine Innovation, Prototyping Speed, and Manufacturing Quality

With a bigger build size than the older ProJet 6000, and new pixel-based projection technology integrated with the buoyant, non-contact precision of SLA, the Husky team realized they could 3D print even faster while still having the accuracy of SLA.

What's (Arguably) the AM Industry's Biggest Blind Spot? Looking at Toolpath Optimization in Isolation

Toolpath optimization is a critical enabler and a powerful lever, as you can improve part performance and reduce costs. But it's only one part of a much larger equation.

Injection Molding Factory Automation: Systems, Implementation, and ROI

This article will explore the entire automation stack from floor robotics through plant-wide intelligence. It also provides an implementation roadmap to differentiate incremental upgrades from operational transformations.

Lessons From Medtech: Deciding When Additive Manufacturing Works and How to Scale It

Medtech is interesting because it's one of the few sectors where AM has really succeeded at scale in production. It's forced to be rigorous: validation, traceability, change control, standardized documentation. That is harder than mastering AM technology itself.

Mastering Powder Management in Metal Powder-Bed AM

We talk about "industrialisation" and "serial production." Then we manage one of the most critical variables in the entire process chain (the powder) like it's a static material that arrived with a certificate.

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The Value of Additive Manufacturing — When it Works, Why it Works

The fastest way to lose trust in AM is to apply it indiscriminately. The fastest way to unlock its value is to treat it like what it really is: a precise manufacturing tool with defined strengths, defined trade-offs, and a growing role in modern production systems.

When Clean is the Key to Precision

Micro molded parts are often invisible to the naked eye, measured in millimeters or fractions of millimeters, with features that can be smaller than a human hair. In this context, a single dust particle can disrupt form, fit, or function.

From Heat to Shock: A Materials Playbook for Gigacasting Automation

Gigacasting automation is the most innovative pathway for creating inexpensive yet structurally sound technologies in some of the most intense industries on the planet.

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Stratasys Additive Manufacturing Solutions to Roll Out Across 20+ GM Manufacturing Facilities

Manufacturing ecosystem empowers factory teams to solve production challenges in hours instead of weeks

AMCM INTEGRATES EOSPRINT WITH PANX TO ADVANCE PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION FOR INDUSTRIAL METAL AM

As metal AM continues to mature into a fully industrialised production technology, manufacturing and part qualification processes must increasingly be supported by physics-based models, as they are in other advanced industries. Production AM cannot rely on experimental trial-and-error, particularly when parts are expensive and required to perform reliably in demanding end-use applications.

Impossible Objects Raises $40 Million to Bring Industrial Scale to 3D Printing

Funding follows $20 million in U.S. government contracts and growing adoption across aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing

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