Both systems feature a simplified powder handling system, which is suited to manufacturers who must regularly swap build materials during production, pre-production, R&D, or bureau environments
Lightweight materials and parts for hybrid and electric planes will be developed within the five projects. (Image: Rolls Royce)
Five projects will develop technology to make production lines quicker, more efficient, and more cost-effective
Amada Weld Tech uses fibre lasers and femtosecond lasers in the manufacture of stents. (Image: Amada Weld Tech)
Keely Portway explores the use of lasers in medical device manufacturing, including how they have played their part since the start of the pandemic
Will Lee, Renishaw’s Chief Executive (left) with Kieron Salter, CEO of the DMC
The Digital Manufacturing Centre has announced its first metal powder bed fusion additive manufacturing machine purchase of two Renishaw RenAM 500Qs
Production costs of the parts were reduced by 80 per cent using metal AM compared to traditional manufacturing methods
Ford Motor Company, Siemens AG, Renishaw and XJet were amongst the prestigious award winners
An new four-year collaborative project aims to develop an effective system for identifying and anticipating the right skills needed in the additive manufacturing sector
Professor Duncan Hand discusses the results of CIM-Laser, a collaboration between five UK universities that has supported the country’s uptake of laser-based manufacturing over the past five years
A consortium of European researchers and companies has developed an integrated software solution as part of a Horizon 2020 project that it says will optimise additive manufacturing
Gemma Church finds that additive manufacturing is being used to transform lives through advanced implants and guides for surgeons
Sanin Zulic and Sunil Pathak share how laser shock peening can be used to improve residual stresses in additively manufactured parts
Sanin Zulic and Sunil Pathak share how laser shock peening can be used to improve residual stresses in additively manufactured parts
Mark Zediker, Jean-Michel Pelaprat and Andrew Dodd share how early results are already demonstrating the advantages of blue lasers in additive manufacturing
Mark Zediker, Jean-Michel Pelaprat and Andrew Dodd share how early results are already demonstrating the advantages of blue lasers in additive manufacturing
Alexandre Rondepierre and Olivier Casagrande demonstrate a new approach that overcomes existing laser shock peening challenges
Alexandre Rondepierre and Olivier Casagrande demonstrate a new approach that overcomes existing laser shock peening challenges
(Image: Andrey Armyagov/Shutterstock)
An brief look at laser cutting and some of the technology developments made in recent years
Richard Stähr and his colleagues are using laser drilling to produce perforated acoustic liners for insulating aircraft noise
Richard Stähr and his colleagues are using laser drilling to produce perforated acoustic liners for insulating aircraft noise
Oliver Haupt and Jan Brune describe how deep-UV excimer lasers can overcome microLED display manufacturing challenges
Oliver Haupt and Jan Brune describe how deep-UV excimer lasers can overcome microLED display manufacturing challenges
Hot-fire testing of a GRCop-42 L-PBF chamber and NASA HR-1 LP-DED nozzle with integral channels at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. (Image: NASA)
Matthew Dale learns how additive manufacturing is optimising the production of rocket components
Frederic Schell and Christoph Zwahr describe how direct laser interference patterning can augment additively manufactured medical implants
