With its high strength to weight ratio and recyclability, aluminum is a popular material choice for automotive parts, like this demo part, which is modeled after an automotive inverter housing. But ...

Over the past decade, 3-D printing has transformed from a hobbyist or prototyping tool into an industrial-grade production process, referred to as additive manufacturing. Today, additively ...

Scientists turned to AI to help develop a new alloy that’s perfect for a simple 3D-printing process.

If you’ve avoided thinking about additive manufacturing for fear of fixing what isn’t broken, you’re not wrong. Additive opens up an entirely new realm of possibilities and, depending on your point of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a breakthrough in the field of additive manufacturing that could ...

Powder bed-based laser melting of metals (PBF-LB/M) is a key technology in additive manufacturing that makes it possible to produce highly complex and high-performance metal components with customized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carolyn Schwaar is a tech journalist and editor at All3DP Magazine. This article is more than 3 years old. Materialise’s CO-AM is ...

The 3D printing industry has long promised a time when its products could meet the demands of manufacturing at scale. That time has arrived. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based ...

CEAD builds and implements large scale hybrid 3D printers, combining multiple manufacturing processes in one cell. The Flexbot can be used to 3D print a part to near net shape and to then post-process ...

Thermwood’s new machine line, called LSAM (pronounced L-Sam, short for Large Scale Additive Manufacturing), uses a two-step, near-net-shape production process. First the part is 3D printed, layer by ...