Stephanie Hendrixson Executive Editor

Workforce Development 7 Jun 2017

Bringing Automation to a Job Shop

A father-daughter team hopes to see big gains from the combination of a new HMC and a pallet-handling system to be installed later this year.

Five-Axis 3 May 2017

Automation Advances at FANUC 2017 Private Show

Updates unveiled at the company’s annual event promote higher-volume production, easier programming and better monitoring capability across product lines.

Additive Manufacturing 26 Apr 2017

Additively Manufacturing a Large Component with a Small Work Envelope

Airbus successfully reduced the weight of an aircraft partition by redesigning it for additive manufacturing. The large component was produced in pieces, with connection features built-in.

Additive Manufacturing 24 Apr 2017

Modular Machine Decouples Material Handling, Processing Units

Concept Laser’s “AM Factory of Tomorrow” concept combines multiple machines and systems to enable automated, digitized and interlinked industrial series production.

Additive Manufacturing 21 Apr 2017

Large-Format 3D Printer Offers High Throughput

The Stratasys Fortus 900mc FDM 3D printer is designed for building functional prototypes, manufacturing aids and tooling as well as for short-run digital manufacturing.

Additive Manufacturing 20 Apr 2017

Online System Helps Manage Metal AM Projects

Sculpteo's Agile Metal Technology is an online agent-based system that helps designers and manufacturers analyze and evaluate metal additive manufacturing (AM) projects.

Additive Manufacturing 19 Apr 2017

First Atomic Diffusion Metal 3D Printer

Markforged introduces its Metal X metal 3D printer, the first to use the company’s Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing (ADAM) technique.

Additive Manufacturing 18 Apr 2017

Metal 3D Printer Supports Multiple Laser Configurations

SLM Solutions’s SLM 280 2.0, an update to the first generation of the metal 3D printer, features upgrades to increase power, plus advanced gas circulation and filtration.