Measuring quality in real-time while reducing the development cycle are both critical to producing the next generation of wind turbines and the components that run them. ArticlePublished: 9/1/2009
Thanks to a cluster of processors running a home-grown algorithm and lean manufacturing shops in the U.S., Japan and Europe, Proto Labs can deliver machined or molded parts in as little as a day. ArticlePublished: 9/1/2009
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. ArticlePublished: 7/1/2009
The old way of making false teeth, crowns and bridges is steadily going the way of wooden choppers. How your next set of pearly whites may be designed more like your next pair of running shoes. ArticlePublished: 7/1/2009
Although there have been some pretty big additive modeling projects
done, consider this: 400 city blocks and 1,000 buildings of four-square
miles of downtown Chicago. ArticlePublished: 7/1/2009
NuStep listened to the user—who may be a stroke victim or in cardiac rehab--when developing its the latest generation low-impact cross-trainer, the T5. What they discovered resulted in a better product. ArticlePublished: 7/1/2009
When furniture manufacturer Herman Miller introduced its Embody chair, it followed many CAD and CAE applications, not to mention numerous protototypes. ArticlePublished: 6/30/2009
Researchers are projecting more age-resistant stereolithography material chemistries that behave much more like injection molding thermoplastics and more polymers with nano-materials to improve mechanical properties in selective laser sintering and ... ArticlePublished: 3/4/2009