Exploring the: Additive Manufacturing Zone
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- Direct Metal Laser Sintering
- Laser sintering is an additive process that deposited metals, such as Titanium, to create complex machinable workpiece blanks.
Article Published: 12/28/2009
- Is Direct-Metal Manufacturing Ready for Production?
- Not yet, says one manufacturer—but almost. This company is getting its customers ready for the day when additive manufacturing will be much more mainstream.
Article Published: 10/1/2009
- Optimized Mold Temperature Control Using DMLS
- This white paper describes the use of additive manufacturing to produce mold tooling with conformal cooling channels.
Article Published: 9/8/2009
- Addressing the Design Issues of Rapid Manufacturing
- This white paper from a manufacturer that added an in-house rapid manufacturing center describes how additive technologies both complement and differ from manufacturing processes relying on CNC machining.
Article Published: 9/8/2009
- Rapid Tooling: Faster, Better, and Less Expensive
- Don’t think of rapid tooling purely for prototyping or short runs. Additive tech is making it possible to produce steel tools that have decided benefits for injection molding and die casting.
Article Published: 7/1/2009
- Direct Manufacturing Gets a High-Flying Boost
- A consortium of companies is working with a German university to advance the state of additive manufacturing processes.
Article Published: 1/1/2009
- Is Direct-Digital Manufacturing Right For You?
- Additive fabrication technology has moved beyond prototyping. These four indicators can help manufacturers decide whether to consider direct-digital manufacturing (DDM) for their operations.
Article Published: 11/14/2008
- The Rapid Manufacturing You Didn’t Know About
- Despite its anticipated success, rapid manufacturing’s (RM) use is well below most predictions.
While RM applications may be short of expectations, additive fabrication technologies and indirect
rapid manufacturing have quietly been adopted and fo...
Article Published: 9/1/2008
- Taking Rapid Prototyping To The Next Level
- The rapid prototyping industry has been around a couple of decades. Historically applied for one-offs, it is seeing increased use as a method of direct digital manufacturing (DDM).
Article Published: 4/21/2008
- Direct Versus Indirect Tooling and Beyond
- As new materials are introduced to the RP
industry, it may be worthwhile to revisit processes that have been
previously dismissed as not being viable.
Article Published: 5/1/2007
