Additive Manufacturing

Digital Manufacturing Insights
When it comes to digital manufacturing, International Mold Corp. uses scanning, reverse engineering, and inspection, but has not ventured into 3D printing. A team attended an integrated digital manufacturing conference to learn more. Here ...

A Flight Plan for Next-Gen Manufacturing
Learn more about the materials and processes that will shape next-generation aircraft in a collection of stories from Modern Machine Shop, Additive Manufacturing and CompositesWorld, available to read or download for free.

3D Printing Offers a Link to Manufacturing Careers
Kylee Carbone, director of talent development at Westminster Tool, reflects on 3D printing’s role in workforce development.

Why This AM Milestone Fills the Capacity of Four CNC Lathes
Incodema3D is launching into its first continuous job to be produced with metal additive manufacturing, but more 3D printing also means more turning.

With 3D Printing, Fixture Making Goes from the Tool Room to the CAD Room
For Ira Green Inc., fixture design and iteration used to take days, even weeks at times, and at a high cost per fixture. With a 3D printer, the shop’s entire process has changed, drastically increasing efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Custom Mold & Design Chases Complex Mold and Production Part Projects with Top-of-the-Line Five-Axis, Screw, Mill/Turn, Additive and Molding Machines
Unique business model—with an eye on complex projects and an arsenal of machine technology to meet the required accuracy levels—raises the bar in mold and machined component manufacturing. 

Additive Manufacturing for Hard Tooling
Hybrid manufacturing is enabling tooling to be made with additive processes.

Additive Manufacturing Needs an Executive's Eye
Attention, CEOs: To implement additive manufacturing at the enterprise level, there are five transformations that must happen simultaneously.

Pushing the Limits of 3D Printing
Crest Mold Technology continually investigates additive technologies and seeks new ways to use it in moldmaking.

Maintaining Balance Writing about Modern Machining, Manufacturing
There is a method to our madness when it comes to determining what articles to present to our readers.