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AM is being touted as the next manufacturing revolution, but all things considered, it’s just another tool on the belt. What’s really exciting is the paradigm that AM, alongside other technologies, bring to the board: true manufacturing agility. The ability to react to new or changing requirements on the fly, not being constrained by location or methodology. This means having adaptive factories, with tools that bridge and compensate the lackings of each other. Metal casting is still very much being used and will be for quite some time. This transformation is being fueled by the digital thread that permeated the manufacturing industry. Cloud-based platforms and modular designs, both in terms of hardware like the MachineBuilder or software like our very own 3Diax solution, offer unparalleled flexibility and efficiency to the user. These technologies enable problem-solving to be taken to a whole new level, decentralizing production capabilities yet interweaving a smart network of data and manufacturing hotspots.
The Battle of innovation and tradition: Metal Casting vs Metal 3D printing
Additive Manufacturing is very often referred to as the new industrial revolution. From 3D printed car parts to airplanes or houses, 3D printing is changing the world around us. But how does the innovative and fairly young technology perform compared to classical Metal Casting which has been used for centuries?
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Meet 3D MachineBuilder, a Web-Based Platform for speeding up Custom Machine Design
Canadian company Vention is offering a solution in 3D MachineBuilder. This cloud-based design and build system brings hardware and software together into the same digital workflow, potentially speeding the development time of custom industrial equipment and prototyping by five times over.
The company’s public assembly library offers hundreds of open-source designs created by the company’s engineering team as well as current users. According to CEO and founder Etienne Lacroix, Vention is different because it’s the first digital manufacturing platform dedicated to machine design.
Read more at Design News.
U.S. Marines 3D Print F-35 Part To Save $70,000
A team of U.S. Marines 3D printed a part for the F-35 stealth fighter saving $70,000 in costs for a whole new landing gear door.
The component is a small part mounted on the door pressing it into the latch. It was designed and 3D printed by Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 31 (CLB-31) in Carderock, Maryland.
Sam Pratt, a mechanical engineer at the Carderock’s Additive Manufacturing Project Office, provided further technical assistance to the team.
“YOU CAN’T BUY THE PIECE SEPARATE FROM THE LANDING GEAR DOOR WHICH IS A COST OF $70,000. BY HAVING THE CAPABILITIES TO PRINT IN THE FIELD, WE WERE ABLE TO REPLICATE THE PART FOR A COST OF ROUGHLY 9 CENTS.”
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AUTHENTISE will be exhibiting, through a partnership with America Makes, the power of smart digital tools within the AM production thread. Showcasing our 3Diax modular platform and MES for AM, you’ll be able to witness how our machine learning algorithms and automation tools can boost operational performance through the roof for each role within the pipeline.
WHERE: additive ETC, located on Level 3 of the West Building at McCormick Center.
WHEN: 10th – 15th September