Materials & Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Explore innovations supporting advances in manufacturing and rapid prototyping. Access the developments and solutions that have an impact on applications in 3D printing and automation.

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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
As battery manufacturers work to rapidly add new production capacity, they face a challenge in compressing the time it takes to build new production lines.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
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Articles: Motion Control
Automation vendors are looking for the latest technology that will give them a competitive advantage.
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Blog: AR/AI
The release of OpenAi's ChatGPT has unleashed a wave of renewed interest in AI. How will this language-based AI affect 3D CAD design and 3D printing?
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Application Briefs: Power
Houston-based startup Downhole Emerging Technologies used direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) as the additive solution to 3D print durable materials necessary for geothermal energy applications.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Yonder Deep team installed an entire suite of sensors in its AUV, versatile enough to withstand the frigid Arctic waters as well as the coastal waters of Southern California.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023
The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few of...

Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The product of the month for March 2023.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Traditional oxygen sensors have significant drawbacks and suffer from high power consumption.
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Articles: Software
SAE's WCX World Congress Experience, will be held from April 18-20, in Detroit, MI.
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Articles: Energy
Cooling plates provide leak-free coolant flow that improves battery performance and extends battery life.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
24M Technologies has simplified Li-ion battery production with a new design that requires fewer materials and steps to manufacture each cell.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The term artificial intelligence (AI) has become an everyday catch phrase. The way it’s used all over the media, however, is very different from the way I think about it.
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Technology & Society: Medical
This is a new process for the 3D printing of complete one-piece structurally sound prosthetic limbs.
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Special Reports: Automotive
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Test & Measurement - February 2023
From the racetrack to the battlefield to deep space missions, test innovations are improving device and system reliability while speeding time to market. Read about the latest advances – including the...

Special Reports: Materials
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Aerospace Manufacturing - February 2023
Learn about advances in 3D printing of spacecraft, large-scale aerospace composites manufacturing, cutting tools for tomorrow's sustainable aircraft, and more in this compendium of recent articles from...

Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors — also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) — for orbiting spacecraft.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have developed a method of imprinting a hidden magnetic tag, encoded with authentication information, within manufactured hardware during the part fabrication process.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Industrial composite manufacturing is primarily accomplished through three methods: co-cure, co-bond, and secondary bond processes.
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Briefs: Materials
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Despite recent supply-chain disruptions, semiconductor buyers are increasingly spoiled for choice when it comes to chip manufacturers.
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Articles: Materials
According to Grand View Research, the global additive manufacturing market size is estimated to reach $76.16 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 20.8 percent.
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INSIDER: Energy
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have created vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on metal foils that could be a boon for energy storage and the electronics industry.
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Blog: Design
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
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Blog: Materials
A counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics: adding vibrations to reduce vibration issues.
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Technology & Society: Electronics & Computers
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...

Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new Indicators feature true absolute sensor technology that minimizes the chance of data loss.
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