Quality Control
Dream 3D Printing Mergers and Acquisitions: Who Will Buy/Merge with Sigma Additive Solutions?
Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SASI) announced that it has retained Lake Street Capital Markets as its financial advisor as the additive manufacturing (AM) quality assurance (QA) company explores methods for increasing…
Defense Logistics Agency to Standardize 3D Printing for US Military
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), a combat support agency within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), recently announced that the organization is developing a set of common standards and methods…
Driven by Quality: Enabling 3D Printing in Industrial Serial Production – AMS Speaker Spotlight
As the world of 3D printing continues to evolve and new technologies and more and more professional materials emerge, it’s clear that 3D printing is quickly making its way into…
Quality Control at Scale with In Situ Quality Assurance – AMS Speaker Spotlight
The future of laser-based metal additive manufacturing is looking brighter than ever. The last few years have seen a substantial increase in production rates due to the increase in laser…
Thermal Management: A Necessary Innovation for 3D Printing – AMS Speaker Spotlight
In the manufacturing industry, the laws of physics are the great playing field leveler. Unconcerned with money, marketing, or good intentions, first principles innovation can create big leaps in performance…
AMS Speaker Spotlight: Gain Added Trust in 3D Printing with Virtual Twins
Scott Sevcik, A&D Strategy Director at Dassault Systemes, will be participating in the Software and Automation Panel 3: Automation, AM, and the Factory of the Future at the Additive Manufacturing…
Formlabs Introduces Automation Ecosystem for 3D Printer Fleets
Formlabs, the Massachusetts-based 3D printing original equipment manufacturer (OEM), announced the release of the Automation Ecosystem, a platform for managing fleets of 3D printers. Formlabs is debuting the new platform…
Formlabs Partners with Xerox’s FITTLE for 3D Printer Financing
Formlabs, the Massachusetts-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of polymer 3D printers, announced that the company has entered into a strategic partnership with FITTLE, Xerox’s equipment financing division. Through its alliance…
What’s the Deal with Metal Binder Jet 3D Printing?
90 to 95 percent of the part files I received as a Regional Technical Manager for Desktop Metal were designed and proved out for another manufacturing process. Companies all over…
AI In-situ Monitoring Detects Fusion Flaws in L-PBF Metal 3D Printing
During the past four years, the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Laboratory, the largest R&D center in the field of additive manufacturing (AM) at the University of Waterloo in Canada, has…
Stress Testing the JEOL JAM-5200EBM Electron Beam Metal 3D Printer – Part I
Anyone who has stepped into an internist or a cardiologist’s den may readily recall the experience of going through a round of evaluations and tests before being made to sweat…
Axtra3D Brings Hybrid Laser-DLP 3D Printers to Market at Formnext 2022
At Formnext 2021, startup Axtra3D attracted attention for the launch of its Lumia 3D platform, which relies on the company’s patented hybrid photosynthesis (HPS) technology. Now, just in time for…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 9, 2022: Deep-Learning, X-Ray CT Inspection & More
Kicking off our 3D Printing News Briefs today is the awarding of a Horizon Europe grant to Titomic Europe, and then on to news from ORNL, which developed a deep-learning…
AM-Flow to Present Automated In-line Quality Control for 3D Printing at Formnext 2022
Dutch workflow automation company AM-Flow will introduce the world’s first AM In-Line Quality Control solution at the upcoming Formnext exhibition in Frankfurt in November, at booth E59 in Hall 12.1….
New Scan Head Enables In-Process Quality Control for L-PBF Metal 3D Printers
Essential for the next stage of additive manufacturing’s (AM) industrialization is the development in-process, closed-loop quality assurance (QA). As one of the few firms solely dedicated to this trend, Sigma Additive…
Stratasys Targets 3D Printing Automation with Riven Purchase and New Post-Processing Tech
Two features crucial to the next phase of additive manufacturing’s (AM) evolution are automation and quality control. Tackling both of these trends from a software and hardware standpoint, Stratasys (NASDAQ:…
Desktop Metal 3D Printing Gets Digital Overhaul from Siemens
As 3D printing firms weather the economic downturn, industrial giants are able to further ingrain themselves into the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. The latest example of this is a new…
AddUp to Introduce Metal 3D Printing Visualization Software via Interspectral
AddUp, the French original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of metal powder bed fusion (PBF) machines, will work together with Swedish software firm Interspectral to develop on visualization and monitoring for additive…
Automatically Weaving the Digital Thread in 3D Printing with Oqton
Digitizing manufacturing technology is easier said than done. However, because 3D printing is already a highly digital process, it may be a prime candidate for guiding the Industry 4.0 trend….
How Glidewell’s Micro-CT Scanner is Advancing Additive Manufacturing Workflows
Glidewell, the largest privately owned dental lab in the U.S., is poised to commercialize its proprietary micro-CT scanner for use in other industries. The California-based company has worked diligently to…
Conflux Achieves AS9100D Aerospace Certification for 3D Printed Heat Exchangers
Conflux Technology is one of the few firms focusing directly on the potentially lucrative additive manufacturing (AM) application of 3D printed heat exchangers. The Aussie startup is now in an…
EOS Teams with ORNL to Improve Metal 3D Printing Quality Control
German powder bed fusion (PBF) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) EOS has inked a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy in order to conduct a…
1st Inkbit Vista 3D Printer Operational at Saint-Gobain Research North America
Marking the finish line of a marathon lasting the better part of a decade, Medford, MA-based 3D printer startup Inkbit has announced that the first commercial Vista printer to be…
Shell 3D Prints Impellers for Its Dutch Refinery
The oil and gas industry hasn’t adopted additive manufacturing (AM) techniques to the same extent as some other large-scale industries, like the aerospace and automotive sectors. Nonetheless, oil and gas…