distributed manufacturing
Available on Kickstarter: Split3r Lets You 3D Print Big Parts on Small 3D Printers
French 3D printing company Qualup has been in the industry since 2011. The company has a good reputation in making high-temperature Material Extrusion systems and volumetric sensors for more precise…
From Energy to Defense: Strengthening Supply Chains Through Dual-Use Additive Manufacturing
Dual-use technologies serve more than one sector, often bridging the gap between commercial and defense applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), once seen primarily as a prototyping tool, is now maturing into…
A 3D Printed Chilled Water Pump Cooling Rotor: The U.S. Navy Keeps Using AM to Cut Costs
One of the surest ways for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry to illustrate that AM is a differentiator is by creating use cases that deliver quantifiable lead time and/or cost…
Croom Medical Signals Potential for 3D Print Diversification in Nuclear Fusion
As international interest in reshoring continues to mount, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry clearly has key advantages to offer suppliers scrambling to develop alternatives to traditional supply chains. One of…
From Concept to Reality: Nikon AM CEO Hamid Zarringhalam on Executing a Metal 3D Printing Strategy
There are countless metrics you can use, whether quantitative or qualitative, to judge the success of an organization. One of the most important may simply be the organization’s ability to…
HP and Firestorm Labs Form Partnership to Use Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printers in Deployable Factories
HP Inc., maker of a range of additive manufacturing (AM) solutions including the Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) ecosystem, has announced a partnership with Firestorm Labs, a developer of containerized, deployable…
Reinventing Reindustrialization: Why NAVWAR Project Manager Spencer Koroly Invented a Made-in-America 3D Printer
It has become virtually impossible to regularly follow additive manufacturing (AM) industry news and not stumble across the term “defense industrial base” (DIB), a concept encompassing all the many diverse…
Ruggedized: How USMC Innovation Officer Matt Pine Navigates 3D Printing in the Military
Disclaimer: Matt Pine’s views are not the views of the Department of Defense nor the U.S. Marine Corps Throughout this decade thus far, the military’s adoption of additive manufacturing (AM)…
Beyond Killer Apps: Why Additive Manufacturing Access Matters More Than Ever
February’s Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) 2025 was a whirlwind of innovation. A dominant narrative, championed by industry leaders like Stratasys CEO Yoav Zeif, was AM’s need to prove its value…
Velo3D and US Navy Sign R&D Agreement to Characterize 3D Printing Materials for Aerospace
After going through major changes last year, including being delisted from the NYSE and being acquired by Arrayed Additive, Silicon Valley-based metal 3D printer OEM Velo3D has been picking up…
DARPA Backs Research Project to Speed Up Qualification of DoD’s 3D Printed Parts
About a year ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a funding opportunity called SURGE: Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance. As with so much of what the…
Würth’s Digital Inventory Software Moves from MVP to Market at AMUG
At 2024’s Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference in Chicago, Würth Additive Group (WAG) unveiled its Digital Inventory Services (DIS) software platform, aiming to productize a streamlined ability to adopt…
What I Would Do If I Were Josef Průša, Part 2: Right on the Nose
How can you beat Garry Kasparov? With a baseball bat. If you ask yourself the question, “How can I beat Garry Kasparov,” and silently add the fragment “at chess” in…
Automation Alley Lays the Infrastructure for Distributed Manufacturing in Michigan and Beyond
For over 25 years, Automation Alley has been at the forefront of Michigan’s technological evolution, helping to reposition the state from its Rust Belt reputation to a modern hub of…
NASCAR’s Legacy Motor Club Turns to BigRep for 3D Printed Rocker Extension Skirts
Legacy Motor Club, the NASCAR team owned by racing legends Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty, recently had to produce new parts to conform to NASCAR regulations issued in the fall…
Bound Filament for Defense & MRO—Waiting for Godot
Bound metal 3D printing, also known as bound metal deposition, is a process in which a filament containing metal powder—held together by polymer, wax, or a combination—is extruded using a…
3D Printing Predictions for 2025: Industrial Production
The prevalence of 3D printing in manufacturing and industrial component production is steadily increasing. Significant strides are being made in producing end-use parts and advancing into full-scale manufacturing. Industries are…
AddUp’s MASSIF Metal 3D Printing Consortium Brings Heft to French Defense
French metal 3D printer manufacturer AddUp will be releasing a 3D printer with a substantial 750mm x 750mm x 1m build volume. The Metal Additive System, Sustainable, Industrial, Eco-Friendly (MASSIF)…
All3DP Closes Financing Round Led by HZG Group
All3DP GmbH, owner of additive manufacturing (AM) industry publication All3DP.com and the Craftcloud marketplace, has closed a financing round for an undisclosed amount, led by new investor HZG Group, a…
Governor of Michigan Expands Program to Boost Small Manufacturers’ 3D Printing Capabilities
Back in 2020, Michigan nonprofit Automation Alley, an advanced manufacturing accelerator, was one of a number of organizations that recognized that the pandemic had put a premium on bringing manufacturing…
3D Printing, China, and the Struggle to Produce Exactly Enough
Global supply chains have demonstrated an almost eerie resilience in the face of one ongoing crisis after another in the last half a decade. Still, one often gets the feeling…
Rescuing the Additive Industry: The Straight Edge 3D Printing Manifesto
Things have not been going well in the 3D printing industry for a long time. Much has been written on this topic and the reasons for this situation have been…
Lincoln Electric Signals Acceleration of Distributed Large Format 3D Printing with RedViking Acquisition
Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ: LECO), the Cleveland-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of arc welding systems, has acquired RedViking, a systems integrator for automation solutions based in Plymouth, Michigan. Terms of Lincoln…
How Will 3D Printing Impact Supply Chain Resilience in 2024?
At the end of 2023, the Biden Administration announced the development of a task force dedicated to supply chain resilience. A month later, the Department of Defense (DoD) published its…
