automation
Investing in Tooling Innovation is Key to Reshoring Success
Outsourcing and retirement have dramatically shrunk the manufacturing workforce in the U.S., creating a challenge to efforts at reshoring production production. Pictured here is a toolmaker assembling an injection mold,…
Europe at a Crossroads: Transforming Challenges into Industrial Opportunities
Europe is awakening to its challenges, and with adversity comes opportunity. Our industries stand at a crossroads, ready to make transformative choices that will shape their future. While Europe faces…
5 Stages to True Scale: Make Your Own Fleet of Metal 3D Printers
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is now approaching true scale, where manufacturing is happening at volume. Critical parts, including millions of implants and thousands of rocket propulsion units, are being…
Canadian 3D Printing OEM Mosaic Pulls in Over $20M in Latest Financing Round
Mosaic Manufacturing, the Toronto-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers, has closed a CAD$28 million (~$20.72 million US) financing round led by Idealist Capital. Idealist…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: August 18, 2024
In this week’s Webinar and Event Roundup, Stratasys continues its advanced training courses and its U.S. tour, while TriMech hosts a Technology Showcase, Endeavor 3D offers a webinar about robotics…
Improving Intelligent Crop Breeding with 3D Printed Sugar Beet Plant
A team of German researchers are working to bring farming into the future by developing AI-assisted crop pipeline improvement. By using laser scanning and consumer-grade FDM 3D printing, they were…
NIST Announces Up to $70M Funding Opportunity for New AI-Driven Manufacturing USA Institute
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce (DOC), has announced a funding opportunity worth up to $70 million over five years, for…
Desktop Metal Sells First PureSinter Furnace to AmPd Labs
While Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) is in the midst of its acquisition by Nano Dimension (Nasdaq: NNDM), business must continue as usual and that includes the commercial development of its…
The Public Arena: EOS Government Relations Manager on Why the Company is All in on Reshoring 3D Printing
EOS has never not been at the forefront of additive manufacturing (AM). Among countless other feats, the German company, which has a strong presence in the US, has a global…
Siemens Increases Attention on US 3D Printing Landscape
Global industrial giant Siemens has announced that the company is taking steps to help bolster the US additive manufacturing (AM) industry. The efforts will surround Siemens’ Charlotte Advanced Technology Collaboration…
Aibuild to Launch Version 2.0 3D Printing Software at RAPID + TCT 2024
Aibuild, the London-based software as a service (SaaS) company specializing in solutions for large format additive manufacturing (AM), will roll out Aibuild 2.0, the latest version of its cloud-based software…
America Makes Announces Winners of AM Qualification Project Calls
Founded in 2012 as the DoD’s national manufacturing innovation institute for AM and a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII), America Makes, based in Youngstown, Ohio, is focused on accelerating adoption of…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 5, 2024
We’ve got a busy week of 3D printing events ahead of us, in Texas, Florida, Washington, D.C., Shanghai, and more. Webinar offerings will cover medical models, PolyJet 3D printing, additive…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 13, 2024: Robotics, Orthotics, & Hypersonics
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, we’re focusing first on robotics, as Carnegie Mellon University’s new Robotics Innovation Center will house several community outreach programs, and Ugogo3D is now working…
$1.1M Grant to Drive Q5D’s Automated Wiring Tech
Q5D, a UK-based company, specializes in creating an automated wire harness robot cell. The firm has recently received a $1.1 million grant to further automate its CY1000 wiring solution. For…
BMW 3D Prints Custom Spike Plates for German Bobsleigh Team
Global auto giant BMW Group has developed custom spike plates for the German Bobsleigh team, manufacturing the metal athletic gear using powder bed fusion (PBF) 3D printing. Bobsledders wear cleats…
MIT Researchers Use AI to Optimize Stiffness and Toughness Balance in 3D Printed Parts
In January, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) published a study in the journal Science Advances, which details an algorithm they…
New Modular Concrete 3D Printer Unveiled by RIC
In a move set to shake-up the additive construction (AC) landscape, RIC Technology has launched the RIC-M1 PRO concrete 3D printer at World of Concrete 2024. RIC promises that its…
1000 Kelvin and Fieldmade Partner to Bring AI to Deployable 3D Printers
1000 Kelvin, the US-German software provider specializing in AI-driven solutions for 3D printing, has partnered with Norway’s Fieldmade, maker of the NOMAD Series of deployable modules for 3D printing, to…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: December 3, 2023
We’ve got plenty of events and webinars coming up for you this week! Quickparts is having a Manufacturing Roadshow, America Makes is holding a Member Town Hall, Stratafest makes two…
$230M Series D Fuels Divergent’s Automated 3D Printing and Assembly Technology
In a significant development for the world of additive manufacturing (AM), Divergent Technologies, known for its comprehensive digital industrial production system, announced the successful completion of a $230 million Series…
Markforged Launches FX10 3D Printer and Vega Filament at Formnext 2023
Markforged, the Massachusetts-based 3D printing original equipment manufacturer (OEM), announced two new product launches at Formnext 2023 (November 7-10 in Frankfurt, Germany). In addition to a new printer, the FX10,…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 17, 2023
It’s another busy week filled with 3D printing webinars and events! Topics include photopolymers and industrial automation, aerospace and 3D scanning, DIGITAL FOAM and composite 3D printers, biomaterial bioinks, and…
Swedish Hypercar Maker Koenigsegg Adopts 3DPrinterOS for Workflow Management
San Francisco-based additive manufacturing (AM) software firm 3D Control Systems announced that its 3DPrinterOS software has been chosen by Koenigsegg Automotive for AM workflow optimization. Established in 1994 and based…
