Additive Manufacturing
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How Additive Manufacturing is Like CNC Machining (and How It's Very Different)

A leading machining business applies the skill of a toolmaker to using additive manufacturing effectively. The cover story of our latest edition of Additive Manufacturing includes application examples, as well as thoughts on the challenge and promise of this technology.

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Additive Manufacturing in the Job Shop

This small shop invested in production 3D printing in part because its owner expects other manufacturers to make the same move. He wanted a head start.

 

Baklund: Lessons About Additive

Make extras. Make the part before even winning the job. Additive manufacturing encourages atypical strategies such as these.

 

Youngstown Congressman on the Skills Gap and Additive Manufacturing

Rep. Tim Ryan describes the challenge of attracting manufacturing’s next generation, as well as the promise of the technology that this generation is likely to put to use.

 

Blowing by the Competition with LMD

One shop’s evolution from conventional to additive manufacturing involves using laser metal deposition in blow mold manufacture.

 

Additive Manufacturing’s Benefits Are Real

Ed Morris, director of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, spoke at last week’s Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. His presentation identified benefits of additive manufacturing that are important to the Department of Defense.

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