How 3D Printing Helps Animals
3D printing, and the related additive manufacturing process of “joining materials to make parts from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer”, completely changes the…
Additive Manufacturing File Format (AMF)
The standard file format for additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing has been updated. The file used in AM is quite possibly the most important…
Valves in Smart Manufacturing
As we have discussed in past posts, valves are everywhere and are used in almost every industry. Having long maintained a major presence in homes,…
How 3D Printing Can Support Life on Mars
Inhabiting alien planets has long been the vision of different scientists, writers, and other idealists, some of whom now feel that the threat of staying…
Training Personnel Limits Forklift Accidents
When forklifts were first invented in the early Twentieth Century, they used basic hydraulic lifts for carrying weight loads that would be too difficult for…
3D Printing Human Organs
3D printing and additive manufacturing use a variety of materials to print out three-dimensional objects that suit many different manufacturing purposes, such as replacing a…
Additive Manufacturing in the Aerospace Industry
Additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing technology have thrived in the aerospace industry, in which the method of printing components from a CAD file has…
Evolutionary Structures in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing
The structures of living things and inanimate objects occurring in nature have been studied and emulated for industrial uses, and there is evidence for this…
Additive Manufacturing Standards
Making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file through 3D printing has been changing engineering, medicine, education, and has even altered the way that toys…