From the Olympics, to the Paralympics and from Hellmand to Dakar, Dan Johns takes a look at how AM and 3D printing are impacting on lives positively, and a look forward to further developments.
So we are just a week out from TCTLive 2012, which this year will feature the Personalize Pavilion — right now I am a paradoxical bundle of excitement, stress, gleeful anticipation and dread. (Straight-jacket, anyone?)
PTC's Kevin Asbridge talks about making a good business case for a PLM implementation by highlighting how value can be added across the development lifecycle.
ExOne’s “Digital Part Materialization”. This process builds objects by treating a powdered material with a bonding agent from a print head. The object is then placed into a furnace for sintering, which burns out the binder and fuses the metal.
The five people that were voted the most influential in the 3D printing and additive manufacturing sector have been interviewed by Jim Woodcock and it has identified a real divide on the: ‘Will everyone have a 3D printer?’ question!
Kickstarter is once again the platform of choice for the latest entry-level 3D printer to make its way into the public consciousness. The HYREL 3D printer project was launched on Kickstarter five days ago.