hybrid manufacturing
$500K in Air Force Funding Open for 3D Printing Projects with America Makes
At the end of June, America Makes, driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) and focused on AM technology research, discovery, creation, and innovation, announced a request…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 30, 2021: IDM Lab, Weerg, Monocure3D, Carpenter Additive & Link3D, SABIC & Local Motors, Neotech AMT
From a new 3D printer and new materials to integrated software and more, read on for all the interesting stories in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs! IDM Lab Launches PicoFAB…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 26, 2021: TU Braunschweig, Desktop Health, 9T Labs, Alfa Romeo & AM Solutions, Alquist & Virginia Tech, Creaform & USAF
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re going over some interesting AM research, and then moving on to certifications, partnerships, military applications, and 3D printed video game characters. Read on…
AMUG 2021: Titan Robotics Launches Atlas-HS 3D Printer with Additive & Subtractive Capabilities
Colorado-based Titan Robotics, Ltd. specializes in large-scale production 3D printing equipment, particularly pellet extrusion systems. This week at the 2021 AMUG Conference in Orlando, Florida, the company launched its new…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 20, 2021: Massivit, Romi, BCN3D, 1016 Industries, Elevons.Design
Business first in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, before we move on to other topics, like hybrid systems, new filaments, and interesting 3D printed products. Massivit is set to go…
Seeking the Paradigm Shift for Metal AM
Brian Matthews, Chief Technology Officer for Meltio, will be speaking at 3DPrint.com’s upcoming AMS online industry summit (Feb 9-10, 2021). Register here. Additive metal manufacturing is one of the 3D technologies…
3D Printing Webinar and Virtual Event Roundup: November 22, 2020
We’re slowing down a little this week, as Formnext Connect is over and Thanksgiving takes place in the US on Thursday. But we’ve still got some interesting webinars and virtual…
DMG Mori Announces LASERTEC 400 Shape Laser Ablation System
The hybrid manufacturing market continues to grow at a steady pace, as an increasing number of machine manufacturers look to combine additive manufacturing and machining capabilities. The latest comes from…
Hybrid 3D Printing, Part 4: Applications
Now that we’ve covered most of the notable hybrid manufacturing names in the space, both large and small, it would be helpful to know what this technology is even good…
Hybrid 3D Printing, Part 3: Small and Unique Companies
In the last installment in this series, we looked at some of the bigger players in the hybrid manufacturing space. Here, we look at some smaller companies, as well as…
Hybrid 3D Printing, Part 2: Big Manufacturers
In the first part of our series, we gave a broad overview of hybrid manufacturing technology, but didn’t focus too much on the specific capabilities of various technologies. As we…
Tissue Engineering in Turkey: Focus Turns to Melt Electrospinning & Hybrid Manufacturing
Turkish researchers from Sabanci University are taking tissue engineering a step further with new techniques for creating scaffolds, outlining their work in the recently published ‘Biomimicry in Bio-Manufacturing: Developments in…
Horizon 2020 LASIMM Hybrid 3D Printing Project Complete
After three years of design and implementation, the Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine (LASIMM) project, funded by the E.U.’s Horizon 2020 program, is officially complete. We’ve tracked its progress…
LASEA & Aerosint to Develop L-PBF Technology With In Situ Laser Ablation
High-powered collaborations are in the works everywhere lately, including Belgium, as LASEA and Aerosint launch a funded development project for a hybrid L-PBF technology with in situ laser ablation and…
Aitiip: The Kraken 3D Printer Is A 20 by 8 by 6 Meter Manufacturing System
Whether you are a fan of pirate movies or not, most likely you know the Kraken as a fearsome but common sea creature of the deep, bearing eight legs and…
OpenHybrid Project Complete: Hybrid Machines with CNC Machining and DED 3D Printing Capabilities
In October 2016, the three-year OpenHybrid project began, a part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The project was designed to address current hybrid manufacturing systems’…
North Carolina: KAM Receives New Certifications for Hybrid Manufacturing
Headquartered in unassuming Statesville, NC, Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing (KAM) continues to forge ahead in hybrid manufacturing, now announcing they have completed certifications in the following: ISO 9001:2015 AS9100D While these…
3D Systems: Augmenting Your Workflow with Traditional and Additive Manufacturing
Combining Old and New Technology Remember the days when people thought that we would all end up with our own home desktop 3D printers to make anything our hearts desired…
Finland: Aalto University Researchers Experiment with Paste Extrusion & UV Curing of 3D Printed Biocomposites
Researchers from Aalto University are taking 3D printing of biocomposites one step further, with a new technique combining UV curing and paste extrusion. Outlining their findings in ‘Mechanical Properties of…
The Perfect Match? Using 3D Printing and LEGO for Better Prototyping
While 3D printing has become a force in on-demand product manufacturing and a catalyst for creating many different functional objects, the technology was created to allow engineers to create rapid…
Results of Daimler and BMW AutoAdd Project Show that 3D Printing for Mass Production in Automotive Industry is Possible
Within the framework of the “Photonic Process Chains” funding initiative by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), several partners – two research institutes and five companies, to…
Optomec Introduces New Hybrid 3D Printing System, Used By Researchers to Make Dissolvable Magnesium Medical Implants
New Mexico-based Optomec is well-known for both its aerosol jet technology, which is used to 33D print electronics, and its other patented AM process: LENS, which uses Directed Energy Deposition (DED)…
CAxMan Project Supports Advancement of Industrial Additive Manufacturing
The world of additive manufacturing is constantly evolving, thanks to projects that endeavor to make it more efficient and effective. Many of those projects are designed to make hardware and…
3D Systems and GF Machining Solutions Bring Together 3D Printing and Precision Machining
More and more manufacturing companies are looking into hybrid manufacturing options that combine 3D printing with more traditional technologies such as machining and molding. Georg Fisher (GF) Machining Solutions is a…
