3D Printing

How the world’s largest user of plastic injection molded parts learned to stop worrying and love additive manufacturing.

Lamborghini among first automakers to use Carbon’s digital manufacturing platform for the production of auto parts at commercial scale.

Biodegradable Mowiflex is based on PVOH resin.

The potential of generative design aligned with additive manufacturing, bioprinting and the mainstreaming of functional color parts are on the watch list of HP Senior Fellow and Chief Technologist Paul Benning.

The OtoSet device, invented by Tucson-based startup SafKan, is a welcome technological leap from the more than a century-old Ear and Bladder Syringe that is still commonly used to remove earwax.

The integrated materials, processes and machines program provides evaluation, qualification and validation of materials alongside certified machines and processes, matching specific part performance with application requirements.

The Texas-based startup has developed a technology that enables the production of polymer powders with controlled particle sizes in diameters from 0.1 to 400 microns.

Improved 3D-printer speeds and reliability, reduced cost of entry and ongoing developments in materials have put additive manufacturing on the production map. That will accelerate in 2019, according to Cullen Hilkene, CEO of 3Diligent, a digital...

The alignment of artificial intelligence with the power of cloud computing can produce optimized, lightweighted designs, most of which would have been inconceivable by the human mind.

The automaker has tied up with Carbon to expand collaboration to digitally manufacture new durable, end-use parts. It has also scored success with electric bus manufacturer Proterra in the production of low volume parts.