As industries from aerospace to biomedical increasingly rely on software to design complex material structures, a persistent challenge has emerged: manufacturing reality often falls short of computational design intent. Even advanced 3D printers struggle to faithfully reproduce the precision demanded by algorithms, leading to a disconnect between predicted and actual material performance.
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Dyndrite, providers of next generation industrial software for additive manufacturing, has announced support for Additive Industries’ MetalFab industrial 3D printers.
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Advances in process monitoring and control are crucial to further increasing the quality, reproducibility and efficiency of this manufacturing process.
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Additive manufacturing (AM) has evolved from a prototyping technology into a powerful production process, capable of delivering functional, high-performance components at industrial scale. However, scaling AM into a reliable production tool requires more than just advances in printing hardware.
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Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Inc. (Nikon AM) is partnering with the U.S. Navy Maritime Industrial Base (MIB) Program to advance additive manufacturing solutions for the U.S. Navy.
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By combining a newly developed tool steel with a scalable Laser Powder Bed Fusion system (PBF-LB/M), the project team has produced a hybrid, large-volume tool insert for the transmission housing of the Toyota Yaris Hybrid—bringing conformal cooling and extended tool life into industrial-scale production.
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The Actionable In-Situ Awareness Challenge was launched to address a persistent gap in metal additive manufacturing, where quality control is still largely post-process and defects are often discovered only after lengthy, costly builds. By creating a competitive, real-world environment, the Challenge provided a pathway for sensor companies to prove their value to end-users across aerospace and defense.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Peregrine software, used to monitor and analyze parts created through powder bed additive manufacturing, has released its most advanced dataset to date.
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Stratasys has announced that Toyota’s production engineering group is accelerating innovation on the factory floor through its strategic collaboration with Stratasys.
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The new Fringe Inspection 500 Kit delivers high-resolution, layer-by-layer heightmaps for powder bed fusion users seeking to advance their metal additive manufacturing using the only repeatable, calibratable, unit based in-situ inspection product on the market.
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