NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needed a different way to build thermal management systems that protect electronics on its satellites and rovers. The solution came from Ultrasonic Additive ...

Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is the ASTM standard name for 3D printing techniques that build through a bed of powder (Direct Metal Laser Sintering, Electron Beam Melting, Direct Laser Melting and Selective ...

Wire arc-based metal additive manufacturing (AM) commonly results columnar grain structures aligned with the build direction, causing anisotropic mechanical ...

EWI, an engineering research organization that focuses on materials joining and related technologies, recently entered into a development agreement with Ultra Tech Machinery to build “the first very ...

A manufacturing innovation that has applications for NASA spacecraft is being transferred to the private sector to support a variety of industries here on Earth. A burst water main is always expensive ...

With the need for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing increasing, Hainbuch is bringing a range of workholding products to help users reduce setup time.

The Rapid + TCT additive manufacturing conference concluded its 2023 session last week and, as always, provides a bird’s eye view of what the future holds for the dynamic industry. IndustryWeek ...

Fabrisonic LLC, a manufacturer specializing in metal 3D-printing applications based in Columbus, OH, has been issued patent number 9,446,475 for a system that co-locates the additive and subtractive ...

Fabrisonic uses ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM), which is a solid-state 3D-printing process for metals that uses sound waves to merge layers of metal foil. The process produces true ...