EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and ...

A NASCAR racecar shop uses direct digital manufacturing to build prototypes for car components. As a NASCAR race-car manufacturer, we call our main vision “concept to car.” The phrase sums up our push ...

"I want to share with you some of the solutions to interesting problems we have encountered for use in your own foray in the 3D printing world." JB Babcock is director of engineering at Taylor ...

3D printing is a big deal. It enables the average person to quickly whip up a fix for something around the house, a cool toy, some functional equipment for hobbies, or even rapidly prototype a new ...

Divide and conquer. That's exactly what engineers at Medtronic Sofamor Danek did when they prototyped the company's latest surgical tool, a counter-torque ratchet that drives in spinal implant screws ...

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can ...

A recent review article in Composites Part C: Open Access discussed the adoption and application of virgin fused deposition modeling (FDM) polymers in three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) ...

Installation of plasma deposition tool at chip research manufacturing line is part of $10 million in upgrades to R&D chipmaking equipment Bryant Colwill, manager of the University at Albany’s College ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Norsk Titanium AS today announced the first MERKE IV™ Rapid Plasma Deposition™ (RPD™) machine has been shipped from Norway to the ...

This class introduces users to fused deposition modeling (FDM) setup strategies and best practices. This class provides an overview of key setup processes and considerations for FDM including ...

ALBANY — Researchers and students at the University at Albany’s College of Nanotechnology, Science and Engineering recently got their hands on a new computer chip manufacturing machine that will allow ...