Manufacturing & Prototyping

3 D Printing & Additive Manufacturing

Explore the fast-paced developments in 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Access the essential technical briefs and resources for design engineers working in manufacturing and medical industries.

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Briefs: Materials
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms.
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Briefs: Materials
Titanium-copper alloys for 3D printing could create high-performance alloys for medical device and aerospace applications.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Midwest Engineered Systems, Waukesha, WI, offers the ADDere metal 3D printing system that consists of a 6-axis industrial robot combined with a 2-axis coordinated motion workpiece positioner. The laser wire additive system...
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How does testing a metal 3D-printed part compare to testing a casted one? That's the elephant in the room, says industry pro Kevin Brigden.
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Articles: Motion Control
Today's advanced smart CNC controls allow manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing process right on the factory floor
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Machine and system designers now have greater options in choosing a motor to meet motion control requirements.
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Briefs: Materials
3D Printing Technique Produces “Living” 4D Materials
3D/4D printing is merged with a chemical process to produce “living” resin, which has potential for recycling and biomedicine.
Briefs: Energy
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
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Briefs: Materials
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cornell researcher T.J. Wallin explains what's so cool about a robot that sweats.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA is using the International Space Station as a testbed for 3D printing.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
As additive manufacturing supports the creation of critical metal parts, designers need to know that the parts are high-quality.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
AM is an especially good fit for products that require a high level of customization.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA and universities from across the country are teaming up to support a continued human presence on the Moon and ultimately Mars.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.
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Briefs: Energy
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small...
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The method could impact optical imaging, vision correction, and disease diagnosis.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Computed tomography is being used in the medical and industrial field. An expert explains how the two imaging techniques differ.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
In recent decades, NSF-funded researchers have discovered quite a bit, including many of the fundamental particles of matter.
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Products: Test & Measurement
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
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Briefs: Energy
Undercooled metal technology was developed that features liquid metal (in this case, Field's metal, an alloy of bismuth, indium, and tin) trapped below its melting point in polished, oxide...
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Contact lenses that can monitor the wearer’s health and correct eyesight use embedded electronics. These, and other curved devices such as solar cells and electronics, could be...
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