[April’s] Design in the Age of Experience event at MiCo Congressi in Milan brought together 400 managers, designers and engineers. 3D Printing Industry were in attendance at the conference and expo organized by Dassault Systèmes, and had the opportunity to…
With 25 years’ working with carbon fibre moulding, founder and CEO of Metron Advanced Equipment, Dimitris Katsanis discusses the advantages of additive manufacturing in the world of competitive cycling. As a composites and design engineering expert, I have always been…
Last week in San Francisco, surgeons, doctors, dentists, researchers, and medical students filed into the UCSF Mission Bay Campus for the 3DHEALS 2017 Conference. Over the next six hours or so, through 9 different panel discussions, the speakers and attendees…
3D printing has promised much and delivered quite a bit. For example, 3D printers are readily available and relatively inexpensive—at least for creating small plastic objects. The MakerBot Replicator+ (Fig. 1) is just one example. It only costs $2,499. “Makerbot is known…
This is a guest post in 3Dprintingindustry’s series looking at the future of 3D Printing. To celebrate 5 years of reporting on the 3D printing industry, they invited industry leaders and 3D printing experts to give their perspective and predictions for the…
German industrial group ThyssenKrupp plans to open its own 3D printing centre this year to manufacture products for its customers, a company executive said on Tuesday. As well as producing steel, submarines and elevators, ThyssenKrupp supplies thousands of tonnes of…
SAP’s cloud-based collaborative business network connects manufactures with 3D printing and material providers for on-demand production. These days, there’s no shortage of news about 3D printing and innovations in advanced manufacturing. From design enhancements to a hybrid approach to automated…
There is concern that 3D printing could make it easy to copy a patented product with a push of a button. 3D printing used to be a product design company’s domain, but it is quickly becoming an affordable technology. While 3D printing…
The aerospace industry has so fully embraced 3D printing that it will undoubtedly work to resolve any challenges. If you fly in a plane in the next few years, you are statistically likely to be flying in one that contains…
3D printing has a lot of potential impacts and uses in business. Prototyping to producing intermediates and making end use 3D printed parts are just some of the application areas where 3D printing is seeing large-scale implementations at the moment.…