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How Dominique Bastien Turned Gondola Restoration Into a Specialized Manufacturing Discipline
Over the years, we developed much more precise restoration procedures. Things like sanding sequence, machine pressure, heat control, polishing compounds, and movement patterns all became extremely important.
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.
79% of US manufacturers are reshoring. Only 34% are ready for it.
Research in March 2026, found that 79% of US manufacturers have already brought outsourced production in-house or are actively doing so. Only 8% haven't even looked at the option.
More sustainable injection moulding
Dervish Ibrahim, international sales manager at TM Robotics, explains why all-electric injection moulding machines are the way forward for reducing the process's environmental impact — while also helping manufacturers achieve a lower cost-per-part.
Innovation in Blue Laser Power in Industrial Wire DED 3D Metal Printing
In much of the wire DED space, you'll often see companies focusing on doing one part extremely well, like the deposition head itself for example. But in reality, system performance is dominated by how all these elements interact.
From Spreadsheet Survival to Digital Quality Backbone in Metal AM
The best engineers I meet are not short on knowledge. They're short on time. They're trapped in a loop of manual documentation, spreadsheet archaeology, and post-mortem investigations.
To Infinity and Beyond
NASA has been making the impossible world of space travel possible for more than six decades is now exploring a more earthbound frontier. It has become a testing ground for generative design—using artificial intelligence (AI) to create novel CAD designs.
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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
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Gigacasting automation is the most innovative pathway for creating inexpensive yet structurally sound technologies in some of the most intense industries on the planet.
How Miniaturisation is Reshaping Product Development
Products are shrinking, yet their functionality and complexity are growing exponentially. This shift is rewriting the rules of design, engineering, and manufacturing.
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Digitalization of the Product in Additive Manufacturing: CRP Group Presents CRP UniqTrust
The Modena-based Group, with over fifty-five years of history in Italy's Motor Valley, turns components made with its Windform® composites into protected digital assets — a first step toward next-generation product traceability for the aerospace, motorsport and defense sectors.
Greene Tweed Accelerates Customer Innovation with Rapid Prototyping Capability for Thermoplastic Composites
New process cuts prototype lead times in half, helping customers move faster from concept to testing
Protolabs Accelerates Growth and Drone Innovation with On-Demand Manufacturing Capabilities
-Serving all Fortune 100 aerospace companies, Protolabs delivers the speed and scale required to meet unprecedented commercial and defense applications
-Enhanced CNC machining enables faster iteration and greater precision for customized parts
-Partnership with HP Additive expands MJF 3D printing tailored to drone manufacturing
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BigRep ONE: Large-Scale 3D Printing
BigRep ONE: Large-Scale 3D Printing
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