Exploring the: Machining & Direct-Metal Manufacturing Zone
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- Bringing It All Together
- Shops that serve medical instrument and implant manufacturers face special challenges. Their customers typically want precisely machined parts plus the extras such as finishing, marking, assembly and expert handling of the regulatory paperwork. That...
Article Published: 12/12/2008
- 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
- Economies Of Scale
- Medical implant work is not just small in terms of workpiece sizes. Lot sizes and lead times can also be small when the product is still under development. To compete for implant work, this shop aims to offer cost savings in the face of all of this ...
Article Published: 6/22/2008
- Striving To Be Partners, Not Shops
- The two divisions within this business machine complex parts for the medical and aerospace industries. So in that sense they’re shops. However, in order to grow with their customers, they realized they had to be more than just providers of good part...
Article Published: 6/9/2008
- 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
- Get Better Before You Get Bigger
- Rather than making a major new machine tool purchase just yet, this shop is finding additional capacity on the equipment it already has. What once was a vertical machining center will become a flexible automated production center for unattended mach...
Article Published: 2/1/2008
- Successfully Feeding The Medical Market
- This medical shop has adopted five-axis, bar-fed machining technology to adapt to compressed delivery schedules and increasingly complex part geometries.
Article Published: 6/1/2007
- 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
- Versatility of CNC in Today's Prototyping Industry
- CNC machining systems can be used in many
facets of prototyping; they create works of art in extremely rapid
timeframes, while maintaining the integrity and aesthetic intentions of
the design.
Article Published: 9/3/2006
