Manufacturing and Supply Chain Articles

3D printing gears up for bigger auto parts, faster output

This binder jet printer can make large engine parts, such as crankshafts and cylinder heads. While 3D printing is likely never going to be able to produce fenders fast enough for high-volume production, at least one type of the technology — binder jet printing — is...

HP Advances Sustainable Printing with Managed Print Service

HP now has the planet's most comprehensive carbon neutral Managed Print Service1 offering for HP-branded devices, making it simple for customers to advance climate change goals and be more productive - without business disruption. HP Managed Print Service end-to-end...

How to Manage the Complexity of a 3D Printing Service

At first glance, most 3D printing projects look easy. To most of you, 3D printing is not complicated at all, but to customers, it can be quite complex. . I can hear something that Calvin, in that old comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes , might say, “We just need to...

How far can 3D printing go in its reach for potential products?

Far from being merely a prototyping or small parts solution, 3D printing has in recent years been used to create a variety of practical structures, from bridges to offices and other large scale structures. . And why not, when options like custom CNC machining can...