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GE Additive opens Arcam EBM Center of Excellence in Sweden
August 20, 2019
GE Additive has reported the opening of its Arcam EBM Center of Excellence in Gothenburg, Sweden. The new 15,000 m2 facility has capacity for up to...»
Florida doctor implants US-first metal additively manufactured finger bone replacement
August 15, 2019
Dr Daniel Penello, of Alexander Orthopaedic Associates, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, has successfully implanted what is said to be the US's first ...»
AFRC to apply advanced manufacturing methods to space propellant tanks
August 15, 2019
The Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), based at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK, will collaborate with Airbus Defence and Space (...»
Wayne King joins The Barnes Group Advisors' ADDvisor Services team
August 15, 2019
The Barnes Group Advisors (TBGA), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, has appointed Wayne King to its ADDvisor® Services team. King wa...»
United Technologies: Pioneering new possibilities for Additive Manufacturing in aerospace
United Technologies Corp (UTC), through its Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace businesses, has a long history of innovation in aerospace engineering. As Venkat Vedula, Executive Director of UTC’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Expertise (AMCoE), and Vijay Jagdale, the centre’s Principal Engineer, explain, this tradition is today being continued through the corporation’s cutting-edge Additive Manufacturing activities.
This report highlights, with the support of an in-depth case study, the centre’s core areas of activity and UTC’s vision for the future of AM.
Additive Manufacturing at HP: A new ‘centre of excellence’ supports the move to volume production
On June 12th, 2019, HP Inc. formally opened its new 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence at its campus in Barcelona, Spain.
Metal AM magazine’s Emily-Jo Hopson attended the event and here reports on the 14,000 m2 facility’s opening and the company’s rapid rise in the world of Additive Manufacturing. She reveals how, whilst the company is not traditionally associated with equipment for industrial manufacturing, many of its core technologies directly lend themselves to a new generation of metal Binder Jetting systems.
Powder removal: The Achilles heel of powder bed-based metal Additive Manufacturing
The broader industrial-scale use of powder bed-based metal Additive Manufacturing is resulting not only in improvements in process performance and material properties, but also in growing scrutiny of the process by regulators, risk managers and legal departments. One key area of their focus is powder removal, the step in the production chain where there is perhaps the greatest risk to worker and plant safety as a result of dust exposure.
Joseph Kowen reviews the current status of this topic and reports on how leading producers are addressing what is often described as the Achilles heel of metal AM.
