5 Big Themes in Additive Manufacturing at Formnext Forum: Austin
As manufacturing advances with additive, the advance increasingly emphasizes these five themes.
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Adding Additive Manufacturing to a CNC Machine Shop
With many types of metal and polymer 3D printing methods available, it might be difficult to identify the type that could be best implemented in your shop. Here is a rundown of these 3D printing processes along with how each can be used together effectively in a CNC machine shop.
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Contest Seeks Innovative End-Use 3D Printed Parts
The Cool Parts Showcase is looking for 3D printed components that are currently in use or show promise as future solutions.
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Gift a 3D Printer to an Employee?
Some shops have purchased inexpensive polymer 3D printers for their operations. Does it make sense to take this a step further and give (or loan) a sharp young employee one to experiment with at home? This small investment could pay off for your shop in different ways.
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Get an Inside Peek at 3D Printed Tooling
Booth features 3D-printed milling cutter, both a complete tool and a partial tool, to show internal cooling channels and other complex features.
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3D Printing Creates a Window of Automation Opportunity
For this Omaha shop, periodic part inspection required an automated turning cell to pause production. Printing a plastic parts collection chute for delivery outside the cell solved this problem, and it turns out the shop has found 3D printing to be valuable in many other ways.
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5 Ways to Use Polymer 3D Printing on the Shop Floor
A low-cost desktop 3D printer has many potential uses in a production manufacturing environment, as a means of making durable tooling to support machining, inspection and more.
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Is 3D Printing in Your Shop or on Your Radar?
Recent shop visits reveal that some machining businesses have added/are considering adding 3D printing equipment, while others are content sending that work — for items such as polymer fixtures and jigs — to outside vendors.
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Video Tech Brief: Vacuum-Assist Collection of Small, Machined Parts
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom offers an optional vacuum collection system for very small parts machined on its Swiss-type CNC lathes to avoid losing or damaging parts. Main system components are 3D-printed made at its U.S. headquarters.
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Non-Machining Processes Worth Considering
Here are three in-house processes outside of machining parts from which your shop, employees and customers could benefit.
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Romi Hybrid Machining Centers Enable 3D Metal Manufacturing
Switching back and forth from subtractive machining to additive manufacturing is as simple as making a tool change.
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Manufacturing Knowledge is Power
The Knowledge Centers with video produced by brands such as Production Machining on the IMTS spark online platform take deep dives into technology and trends related to various CNC machining and manufacturing topics.
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Metal Additive Manufacturing: Multitasking’s Latest Trend
Why are an increasing number of machine tool builders adding additive manufacturing to their equipment’s already versatile machining capabilities? Because additive and subtractive are complementary.
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3D Printing’s Value in a Production Turning Environment
A shop had a problem with chips and coolant being shot back through tube material it was machining on a bar-fed CNC turning center. Its solution was to 3D-print a plug to insert into the back end of the tubes. It uses its 3D printer in other ways, too.
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3D Printing vs. CNC Milling for Prototyping
Many factors, such as price, part size and material come into play when deciding whether 3D printing or CNC milling is the best method for making a prototype.
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Additive Manufacturing Advances to Production
As additive manufacturing technology progresses and its use grows, it has become an accepted production process. Here are some applications for full production additive, and how the industry is achieving it.
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Customizing Collaborative Robots with 3D Printing
A company that helps manufacturing companies implement collaborative robots has found that additive manufacturing can produce custom parts for these systems faster and cheaper than machining.
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DMP Flex 350 Metal 3D Printing Machine is Ideal for Application Development, Production and R&D
With the DMP Flex 350, manufacturers achieve high repeatability.
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Ceratizit Presents Team Cutting Tools and Turns Turning Upside Down
Luxembourg-based Ceratizit Group invited more than 50 journalists from 15 countries for their Open Days 2019 press event from May 13-15 to present the new Team Cutting Tools and its new turning technology High Dynamic Turning.
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VIDEO: Creating an Unsmashable Guitar
Several of Sandvik’s divisions teamed up with a guitar designer to produce an unsmashable metal guitar for renowned musician Yngwie Malmsteen.
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