The Time is Now: Sustainability in Industrial Additive Manufacturing
While it may be greener than traditional manufacturing, AM remains a powerful contributor to emissions, power consumption and supply chain volume.
While it may be greener than traditional manufacturing, AM remains a powerful contributor to emissions, power consumption and supply chain volume.
In this podcast, John Derry, senior application engineer at Promess, talks to SME Media contributing editor Michael Anderson about reducing complexity in assembly equipment. Derry discusses how assembly systems may become unnecessarily complex--and how that complexity can reduce quality and increase costs. Derry goes on to describe effective ways of addressing these issues and to reduce and even eliminate unnecessary complexity.
Quality expectations remain the same for additive manufactured parts
At this week’s RAPID + TCT show, the promise of additive manufacturing was on display. There was also talk of challenges facing the industry.
Two executives, speaking at RAPID + TCT today, called on increased efforts in 3D printing.
When SOP Technologies sought the ideal destination to develop, test, manufacture, and market its devices that help stop ocean pollution, Miami quickly rose high on the list.
What manufacturers wanting in on Industry 4.0 should know before investing in a 3D printer
The work of SME Additive Community members encompasses the entire history of the technology as well as its most novel applications.
Additive veteran Andrew Graves boldly goes where no materials expert has gone before.
Renishaw’s next generation radio transmission probing system delivers a data-rich future and an increase in battery life of up to 400 per cent