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.
When the rules, requirements and expectations are unchanged, additive manufacturing (AM) is a poor substitute for established processes, but taking another point-of-view opens up the possibilities.
Mike Powell Design approached Sheffield-based AME to help realise a three-part, modular, motorised golf caddy: AME created a desirable course assistant that could be made economically.
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.
