Education
Not Your Granny’s Shop Class: Oak Ridge High Offers 3D Printing Service Bureau Class
It is impossible to separate the history of Oak Ridge, Tennessee from the history of rapid advances in manufacturing. Located in the Knoxville metropolitan area, the town is synonymous with…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 15, 2023: Exoskeleton, Startup Award, & More
We’re starting things off today with a case study from Materialise about an exoskeleton featuring 3D printed parts. Moving on, IN-VISION has expanded its powerful HELIOS light engine with new…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 10, 2023: Makerspace, 3D Printed Jet Engine, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll cover one story each on 3D printing in education, aviation, construction, and healthcare, and then finish up with news about a DMLS metal…
3DPOD Episode 154: Duann Scott on MIT’s xPRO 3D Printing Course and More
Previous guest Duann Scott is back to discuss some new ventures and projects he’s involved with, including MIT’s xPRO course on additive. What is covered, what do you learn, and…
COBOD to 3D Print School in Ukraine
Construction 3D printing firm COBOD has announced its involvement in a project to 3D print a school in Lviv, Ukraine. The single-story school will have a surface area of 370…
Jill Biden Unveils Plans for Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development
This week, the US Department of Labor (DOL) held a three-day event, “ETA [Employment and Training Administration] Vision 2030: Investing in America’s Workforce,” centered around a rollout of the Biden…
Biden Admin Announces $72M in Funding for Workforce Training in Clean Energy Advanced Manufacturing
Amid President Biden’s Investing in America campaign, a cross-country tour in which the commander-in-chief is touting his administration’s extensive support for reshoring American manufacturing, the US Department of Energy (DOE)…
Open Source 3D Printing: Set up Your Open Hardware Development So Everyone Can Participate
Josef Průša, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research, published an important and thought provoking article titled “The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023” where he called for…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 30, 2023: Rubber 3D Printing Service, Titanium Powder, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Authentise released its RFQ Responder, and Chromatic launched a rapid custom rubber 3D printing service. Sticking with materials, IperionX and SLM Solutions signed an…
The Advanced Manufacturing Talent Pipeline Forming on Chicago’s West Side
Advanced manufacturing can be used as an entry point into many different industries, but finding those opportunities can be challenging. One company in Chicago is creating a pathway within the…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 11, 2023: AMUG Scholarships, 3D Printable Bacteria Ink, & More
We’re starting with AMUG news today in 3D Printing News Briefs, as the organization has awarded two scholarships. On to medical news, MIT engineers are 3D printing robotic heart replicas…
A Brighter Future for Aerospace with 3D Printed Open Source Satellites
Oregon’s first satellite, complete with advanced space-ready 3D printed materials, has been successfully operating in low earth orbit for the past year. 3D printing is playing a major role in…
Investors Could be the X Factor in 3D Printing Workforce Development
It must be frustrating for stakeholders in the additive manufacturing (AM) sector to see that the companies that they’re backing are facing the exact same obstacles in the short-term that…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 11, 2023: Training, Gigafactories, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with training, as nScrypt introduced its nStructor trainer. Moving on, Farsoon and toolcraft are collaborating on laser powder bed fusion systems, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 21, 2023: 3D Printing Camp for Kids, Medical Devices, & More
Let’s get kids 3D printing! Kicking off 3D Printing News Briefs today, Anycubic and Yale Funbotics held virtual camps to introduce children to 3D modeling and 3D printing. Moving on…
Why Is There so Little 3D Printing Training Available?
If I ask friends what they need in 3D printing the most, mature users often point to training. I did a survey at one point and, the more production oriented…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 14, 2023: ImplementAM, Bioprinted Eye Tissue, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, we’re starting with the launch of a case study-based AM workshop called ImplementAM. In business news, the latest distribution partner for Meltio’s wire laser…
Maine Air National Guard 3D Prints Aircraft Repair Training Aids with Essentium Platform
Essentium Inc., an Austin-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specializing in extrusion additive manufacturing (AM) platforms, announced that the Maine Air National Guard employs the company’s High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 180…
DMG Mori and Illinois Tech Announce Plans for National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Illinois has long served as a hub for the United States, located partway between the financial and political centers of the East Coast and the frontiers of the West. It…
TikTok’s Female 3D Printing Trailblazers on How to Get More Women into Tech
3D printing was once only seen as a technology reserved only for professionals. It was difficult and expensive to obtain a system before desktop 3D printers began proliferating at the…
Chromatic 3D Launches End-to-End Platform for Reactive Extrusion 3D Printing
Chromatic 3D Materials, an additive manufacturing (AM) company based in Minneapolis, has announced the launch of two new products for reactive extrusion AM. In addition to ChromaScan, a software platform…
KUKA & Ai Build Launch 3D Printing Production Cells
The UK-based software as a service (SaaS) firm Ai Build has announced a new product line, in collaboration with its frequent and longstanding partner, robotics manufacturer KUKA Systems. The line…
UltiMaker Announces MakerBot SKETCH Large 3D Printer for the Classroom
Today, UltiMaker announced its latest 3D printing solution for the classroom: the MakerBot SKETCH Large. UltiMaker, the Utrecht-based leader among desktop 3D printer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), is the product…
3DPOD Episode 120: Increasing the Adoption of 3D Printing with Kris Binon, General Director of Flam3D
Kris Binon is at the helm of Flam3D, an organization that began by connecting the Belgian region of Flanders via 3D printing. Later, Flam3D grew to represent research institutes and…
