by Bill Decker | May 29, 2019 | Business, Media
What is the cost difference between metal additive manufacturing and traditional manufacturing? The three main factors that determine cost is tooling, minimum order quantity, and lead times — all of which additive manufacturing...
by Rich Benvin | May 12, 2019 | Business
GE – Blockchain for 3D Printing? Even the oldest companies in the world are getting into...
by Bill Decker | May 8, 2019 | Announcements, Manufacturing, Software
It’s interesting. Most firms that have embraced 3D Printing did not have a 3D Printing strategy. We find that 3D Printing was often adopted in a piecemeal way. One department would get a 3D Printer. A new sales person would arrive, and a company buys a different...
by Bill Decker | Apr 25, 2019 | Announcements, Ideas
This latest 3D Printing podcasts discusses intellectual property theft and how it relates to 3D Printing. Listen to the latest 3D Printing...
by Bill Decker | Apr 16, 2019 | Announcements, Bioprinting
In what the Israeli media is calling a “world’s first,” scientists at Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a small heart using human tissue that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules — a breakthrough, according to Haaretz, that they hope could one day...
by Bill Decker | Apr 10, 2019 | Engineering, NASA
NASA once again is embracing 3D printing. Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering announced that NASA has awarded a three-year, $5.2 million contract to its National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence, or NCAME, to develop additive...
by Rich Benvin | Apr 2, 2019 | Announcements, Engineering
HP has announced the launch of its Metal Jet Production Service, enabling customers to upload designs and produce production-grade additively manufactured metal parts in large quantities. The parts are produced by HP partners GKN Powder Metallurgy and Parmatech, using...
by Bill Decker | Mar 20, 2019 | Announcements, NASA
Does 3D Printing in Space make NASA’s job easier? The 3D Printing In Zero-G Technology Demonstration (3D Printing In Zero-G) experiment demonstrates that a 3D printer works normally in space. In general, a 3D printer extrudes streams of heated plastic, metal or...
by Bill Decker | Mar 11, 2019 | Announcements, Business
6 More 3D Printing Myths! Myth #6: The labor unions will never allow a “no labor” manufacturing process. These unions are powerful and have members everywhere. There is no way they will allow products to be made without their hard work and input. Myth #7: Holders of...
by Bill Decker | Feb 19, 2019 | Announcements, Education, Industry Stats, NASA
3D printing has been taking on industry after industry. One can even 3D print food to some extent. Now researchers funded by NASA will apply that technology and manufacturing approach to print sensors and even a partial circuitry for wireless communication on a single...
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