5 Big Themes in Additive Manufacturing at Formnext Forum: Austin
As manufacturing advances with additive, the advance increasingly emphasizes these five themes.
Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing
Get an Inside Peek at 3D Printed Tooling
Booth features 3D-printed milling cutter, both a complete tool and a partial tool, to show internal cooling channels and other complex features.
3D Printing Creates a Window of Automation Opportunity
For this Omaha shop, periodic part inspection required an automated turning cell to pause production. Printing a plastic parts collection chute for delivery outside the cell solved this problem, and it turns out the shop has found 3D printing to be valuable in many other ways.
5 Ways to Use Polymer 3D Printing on the Shop Floor
A low-cost desktop 3D printer has many potential uses in a production manufacturing environment, as a means of making durable tooling to support machining, inspection and more.
Is 3D Printing in Your Shop or on Your Radar?
Recent shop visits reveal that some machining businesses have added/are considering adding 3D printing equipment, while others are content sending that work — for items such as polymer fixtures and jigs — to outside vendors.
Video Tech Brief: Vacuum-Assist Collection of Small, Machined Parts
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom offers an optional vacuum collection system for very small parts machined on its Swiss-type CNC lathes to avoid losing or damaging parts. Main system components are 3D-printed made at its U.S. headquarters.
Non-Machining Processes Worth Considering
Here are three in-house processes outside of machining parts from which your shop, employees and customers could benefit.
