Automotive Insights
BMW Group
BMW goes bionic: A closer look at BMW's 3D printed robot grippers
TCT speaks to the automotive giant about its design and deployment of customised 3D printed robotic grippers. Read more
24 Oct 2024
Virginia Tech
A Dollar and a Dream: Virginia Tech's use of 3D printing in a $1.5m tire retreading project
When Chris Williams – the L.S. Randolph Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech – started out as a professor 15 years ago, he couldn’t envisage that his lab would ever build bespoke additive manufacturing (AM) equipment. Read more
27 Dec 2023
Digital Manufacturing Centre
What Drives You: Inside the Digital Manufacturing Centre at Silverstone
We go through the doors at the Digital Manufacturing Centre in the famous Silverstone Park to get a closer look at how it aims to drive the future of UK manufacturing. Read more
19 Dec 2023
www.martinmeiners.de VOLKSWAGEN
A win-win: How Volkswagen reimagined a tooling nozzle with 3D printing
Laura Griffiths speaks to Volkswagen and Additive Industries about their TCT Award-winning additive manufacturing collaboration on a tooling nozzle for the VW Tiguan. Read more
21 Dec 2022
Steve Fecht for General Motors.
Tooling up: Senior Engineer Malini Dusey talks to TCT about GM's application of additive manufacturing
General Motors Senior Engineer discusses General Motors' application of 3D printing technology for tooling applications. Read more
24 Dec 2021
The fundamentals: "Advancing the science" in automotive 3D printing
Kevin Baughey, Segment Leader, Transportation and Motorsports at 3D Systems on "advancing the science" in automotive. Read more
23 Dec 2021
LANDR
The promised land: LANDR CEO talks UK-made low-cost industrial FDM 3D printer
Sam Davies meets with LANDR, a spin-out from UK contract manufacturing business RYSE3D, which launched its new polymer 3D printing system at TCT 3Sixty. Read more
Tri-Tech 3D
How additive manufacturing can help manufacturers minimise their carbon footprint
Adrian Painter, Managing Director at Tri-Tech 3D, UK provider of Stratasys 3D printing solutions, explores how AM could help manufacturers meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Read more
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Interspectral
AM Quality & Inspection: 'There was no standardised way of handling the data in an efficient way.'
Isabelle Hachette, CEO at Interspectral, a Swedish technology company specialising in 3D visualisation and data fusion says ‘there is no lack of data’ from AM – just a lack of tools to fully utilise it. Read more
COBRA Golf
Shifting weight: Inside the development of COBRA Golf's 3D printed golf club head
Sam Davies speaks to the collaborators behind the delivery of the LIMIT3D 7-iron, a 3D printed golf club head brought to market by COBRA Golf. Read more
Additive Assurance
AM Quality & Inspection: 'Quality is a paramount concern for all manufacturers regardless of the process.'
For our series on manufacturing quality technologies for additive manufacturing, TCT spoke to David Menzies at Additive Assurance about the need for unique quality control solutions for AM processes. Read more
The Beacon Museum
Golden opportunity: How 3D printing brought a Bronze Age gold bangle into the present
How a global collaboration and 3D technologies brought a rare artefact to life at a small UK museum. Read more
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Carpenter Additive
On-demand metal powder fuels at-scale AM
Carpenter Additive highlights the need for high-quality powders and a secure, streamlined supply chain in the delivery of additively manufactured components. Read more
TCT
The economics of additive manufacturing are broken — here's how to fix it
Leap 71 co-founder Lin Kayser has his say on the economics of the additive manufacturing industry, with suggestions on how the industry can get itself out of a 'death spiral.' Read more
Industry Insights + Latest AM and 3D Printing Industry insights
Protolabs
Protolabs launches instant manufacturability analysis for 3D printing
Protolabs has launched instant design for additive manufacturability (DfAM) analysis on 3D printed parts through its online quoting platform. The automated feedback enables product developers and engineers to optimise additive designs. Read more
America Makes
Additive manufacturing's potential to reinvigorate the U.S. supply chain
John Wilczynski, Executive Director of America Makes on how advanced manufacturing is reinventing possibilities in supply chain. Read more
Shutterstock
Digital transformation of operations and supply chains through the use of additive manufacturing
Dr. Siavash H. Khajavi and Prof. Jan Holmström explore the impact of additive manufacturing on supply chains in relation to digital inventories and spare parts and bridge manufacturing (also known as stopgap manufacturing). Read more
University of Exeter CALM
Can powder testing accelerate the development of new feedstocks for AM?
The University of Exeter's Professor Oana Ghita offers thoughts on how an optimised testing strategy can make a big difference when it comes to developing new additive manufacturing powders. Read more
What to expect from the 2021 AMUG Conference
AMUG’s AM Industry Advisor Todd Grimm details what we can expect from this year’s Additive Manufacturing User Group Conference in Orlando, Florida. Read more
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Arkema
Revolutionizing 3D Printing with Arkema's Easy3D Platform
3YOURMIND and Arkema have partnered to create a customer platform providing material suggestions and a supplier network for on-demand manufacturing. Read more
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Massivit
Synergy in Motion – Sika's Premium Materials Meet Massivit's Large Scale Printing
Massivit’s Avi Cohen, VP Sales and Marketing, discusses the implications of the company’s recent strategic partnership with leading materials manufacturer Sika Deutschland GmbH. Read more
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Arkema
Revolutionizing 3D Printing with Arkema's Easy3D Platform
3YOURMIND and Arkema have partnered to create a customer platform providing material suggestions and a supplier network for on-demand manufacturing. Read more
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Revopoint
Revopoint MetroX 3D Scanner: High-Precision 3D Scanning at an Unbeatable Price!
Designed for professionals demanding metrology-grade accuracy, the MetroX 3D scanner integrates cutting-edge hybrid multi-line blue laser and full-field structured light technology. Read more
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Industrial Additive Manufacturing with TRUMPF: The right solution for every metal AM application and industry. Benefit from robust and productive machines. Search out innovations as fullfield multilaser, 500°C preheating, and real copper 3D printing Read more
