New printer aims to provide designers affordable, office-friendly, full-color 3d printing to validate new product designs quickly.
Ultimaker offers a full suite of 3D printing solutions, from award-winning hardware to software to materials, that seamlessly integrate together and within existing workflows due to the open nature of the system.
Top financial executives participating in a survey by consulting firm PwC expressed concerns about the impact, including a recession, from the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
U.S. manufacturers cut 12,000 jobs in January, led by a loss of jobs in the motor vehicles sector. Makers of vehicles and parts pared 10,600 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Use of additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is expanding, with users looking to do more metal printing, Stratasys Direct Manufacturing said, citing a survey of users of the technology.
Be it due to a breakage or malfunction of tooling or a part, manufacturers will likely acknowledge that it’s not unusual for one or more production line(s) to be down, waiting for a replacement item at any given time.
A survey by the Institute for Supply Management indicates the supply chain impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) worsened over March.
Compared to machining and other traditional metalworking processes, additive manufacturing (AM) is a newcomer. Most industry experts trace its birth to 1987, when Chuck Hull of 3D Systems fame introduced the first commercially available stereolithography machine, the SLA-1.
Additive manufacturing, or 3-dimensional (3D) printing, continues to rapidly develop across a number of industries.
Cutting tool consumption in January 2020 rose 5 percent compared with December 2019, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute and AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology.
