Manufacturing and Supply Chain Articles

Sinterit Launches SLS 3D Printing Center to Drive Low-Cost SLS Adoption

This July, Sinterit , a leading manufacturer of desktop SLS 3D printers (Lisa, Lisa PRO) , has begun operations at its newly-launched 3D Printing Center. The company states that the center has been launched, not to compete with other renowned 3D printing centers, but...

Researchers Develop Method to Correct Defects in 3D-Printed Materials

Additive manufacturing can produce parts with intricate shapes and minimal waste, offering excellent potential to redefine the development of metallic components. When 3D printing metallic parts, Argonne scientists found a correlation between temperatures at the...

High Speed Sintering Used to 3D Print 8,000 Parts for Spanlite

While 3D printing often tends to present itself on the large scale and in spectacular fashion, other times it functions to serve quite ordinary needs. A perfect example would be the fabrication of small but critical parts like clamps. . UK-headquartered Spanlite...

Air Force tests 3D-printed part for 65-year-old bomber

A team from Tinker Air Force Base has built the first 3D-printed metal part for a jet engine already in service. Members of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a wing of the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center, successfully tested the component that marks a...