Last week I went to the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) and it was incredible. This is a toy store for machinists and showcases the best of industrial automation. But one of the ...

Watch out, 3D Systems. GE has your metal 3D printer business in its crosshairs. GE's 3D printer will have a build volume of one cubic meter, with all three dimensions each one meter, or 1,000 mm, ...

Nuburu, a developer of high power and high brightness industrial blue lasers, and Essentium, which makes industrial additive manufacturing systems have announced a partnership to develop and ...

Are you planning on producing metal parts? If this is the case, there are a couple of machining processes you could potentially employ. Requesting a CNC machining quote is a great example of this, but ...

Aluminum is prized for being lightweight and strong, but at high temperatures it loses strength. This has limited its use in ...

Generally, 3D metal printers work by laying down a bed of metal alloy powder, then sintering it with an electron beam or a laser in a pattern based on a digital file. A second layer is automatically ...

The material is silver nanoparticles extruded out of a nozzle, and shortly after leaving it is blasted with a carefully programmed laser that solidifies the material. The trick is that the laser can’t ...

So a local "maker space" has two introductory workshops. One for laser cutting/engraving, the other on 3D printing. Ideally I'd visit both, since I'm clueless in both techniques and I haven't designed ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision. A new approach called cold metal fusion is changing that equation, turning ...

3D Printing has been gaining traction through many scientific and engineering disciplines as an easy way to print complex hierarchical structures, some of which are not possible by other means. The 3D ...