Companies from the tool, pattern and mould making industry will be heading to Stuttgart from 21-24 May for the international Moulding Expo trade fair - and Trumpf will be on hand to show them how to make the most of 3D printing.
The Eureka Network in Photonics has announced its intention to fund international research and development projects with up to €2 million to produce industrial photonic technologies for advanced manufacturing
Cranfield University in the UK has launched an MSc course on metal additive manufacturing
Farsoon Technologies has developed an additive manufacturing process capable of printing structures made entirely out of copper using standard fibre laser wavelengths
Matthew Dale reports from an industry session on additive manufacturing, where a panel of experts discussed the technology’s potential for industrial production
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
Dr Dieter Schwarze and Bodo Haack, of SLM Solutions, discuss the importance and progression of standardisation in laser metal additive manufacturing
Dr Rich Martukanitz, of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and the University of Virginia, explains how a performance qualification protocol in traditional manufacturing can be adapted for AM
Optomec - a global supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing systems for 3D printed metals, has announced the release of its new LENS CS 600 and CS 800 Controlled Atmosphere (CA) DED Systems. These new additions to the Optomec Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) Classic System Series are configurable and maximize the process build envelope with a minimal system footprint.
Independent research organisation TWI has ordered a modified TruLaser Cell 7040 machine from Trumpf that has been developed especially for the manufacture of large aerospace parts
