process monitoring
NAMIC’s Global Additive Manufacturing Summit Tackles AI & AM
On day two of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC)’s Global Additive Manufacturing Summit, the focus is on AI, design, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), and more. Many are excitedly exploring…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 21, 2024: Process Monitoring, Earmolds, & More
We’re taking care of business first in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Sevaan Group has launched an additive manufacturing service and Farsoon Europe is partnering with MostTech to expand…
3DPOD Episode 206: Electron Beam Metal 3D Printing with Wayland Additive CEO Will Richardson
Will Richardson started the electron beam company Wayland Additive nearly five years ago. Since then, the UK firm has been part of the eBeam renaissance, witnessing a resurgence of electron…
European Teams Examine the Combined Impacts of 3D Printing and Subtractive Manufacturing
As many in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry know, 3D printing alone often doesn’t cut it and can be best combined with subtractive processes to finish parts. For many applications,…
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…
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…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: July 10, 2022
It’s another busy week of 3D printing-related events and webinars! Markforged and Stratasys are both conducting tours, 3D Systems is holding a webinar on lightweighting structures for NASA, and the…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 9, 2021: Business, Materials, & Research
A partnership between Prima Additive and Materialise is first up in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by news on a headquarters expansion from PrinterPrezz. Service bureaus in Japan are…
Process Monitoring – the Future of Quality Assurance for Additive Manufacturing?
In-Process monitoring is the stepping-stone for AM parts not only to validate the process but also to minimize the need of post-process quality control. Currently, in highly regulated industries such…
Open Additive & Addiguru to Increase Accessibility of Industrial 3D Printing Process Control
As many benefits that metal 3D printing has to offer, adoption can be impeded by the additional expenses of failed builds, process developments, and post-printing inspections. But luckily, many research…
Sisma Introduced New 3D Printing and Powder Management Systems at formnext 2019
At last year’s formnext, Italian company Sisma released its EVERES ZERO and EVERES UNO DLP 3D printers. This year, Sisma had even more product launches at the show, starting with…
miniFactory Releases Aarni Monitoring System for FFF 3D Printing
Finland’s miniFactory continues to refine FFF 3D printing. While previously they have continued to accentuate 3D printing with new 3D printers, technical datasheets, personalization tools, and much more, now they…
GE Additive Announced that Concept Laser’s M LINE Factory 3D Printing System Will Be Delivered in Q2 2019
A little over two years ago, GE acquired a 75% stake in metal 3D printing leader Concept Laser. Ever since then, GE Additive has been working to review and redesign…
Defense Logistics Agency Awards Senvol Grant to Predict Mechanical Performance of 3D Printed Parts
New York-based Senvol, which provides data to companies to help them adopt 3D printing into their workflows, has been pretty focused on military applications as of late. The company joined the National Armaments…
High-Speed Cameras Used to Monitor 3D Printing Process
3D printing, particulalry laser-powder bed fusion or L-PBF, requires a great deal of monitoring to avoid defects and flaws in the final parts. In a thesis entitled “Process Monitoring for…
Researchers Develop Machine Learning Method to Monitor 3D Printing Process for Defects
All sorts of issues can occur when a 3D printed part has a defect, and researchers around the world continue trying to find new ways to detect these defects before…
3D Printing News Briefs: July 24, 2018
For today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with business as usual, and then moving on to some pretty interesting 3D printing projects from around the world. First up, Ultimaker…
Machine Learning and Metal 3D Printing Combine for Real-Time Process Monitoring Algorithm
The day is slowly coming when metal 3D printing will be widely considered as a reliable industrial manufacturing method, but there are still some issues to deal with before we…
PaperCut Releases New Software Version to Combine 3D Printing and Specialty Production Printing In One Solution
It’s important to keep your 3D printing software up to date, so everything is current and running smoothly. Global print management software company PaperCut, based in Australia, was founded in…
EOS Showcases New Industrial 3D Printer and Latest Software Versions at formnext
EOS is at formnext 2017 in Frankfurt this week, displaying its two latest 3D printing products at Booth G50 in Hall 3.1. The first of these two is its new…
Renishaw Launching New Products at formnext to Make Additive Manufacturing More Mainstream
Like so many others in the 3D printing industry, Renishaw, headquartered in the UK, attended the TCT Show in Birmingham last month; Renishaw Iberica was also at IN(3D)USTRY last week….
