Manufacturing and Supply Chain Articles

Could The Pandemic Cause 3D Printer Company Transformations?

After seeing 3D printer companies make fundamental transformations in their business models, I’m wondering if this is a trend. 3D Printing in the Pandemic The COVID-19 crisis has affected everyone, everywhere in some way. Mostly (and most obviously) negatively, but...

A bright future for 3D printing

It wasn’t too difficult to use a 3D printing machine to produce face shields in response to the coronavirus. The real trick was using 100 machines to make 25,000 of them. . Raytheon Technologies launched a rapid-response effort to produce that many face shields for...

AXIOM: A New Method from HMT Combines Benefits of 3D Printing and Injection Molding

The AMBIT XTRUDE PE-1 3D printhead was fixed to a CNC milling machine to produce finished parts from polymers and composites that resembled finished injection molded parts. . The comparison between additive and subtractive manufacturing is usually a...

Investing In The End-To-End Value That 3D Printing Creates, Not In The Technology Itself

The 3D printing industry offers great investment potential. At the same time investing in 3D carries the same risks as investing in other industries that focus on technology creation first and value creation as a secondary thought. . The rise of 3D printing can be...