Interestingly enough, as Connecticut-based Oxford Performance Materials Inc. (OPM) has developed its 3D printing processes and materials, the company has simultaneously managed to create parts that are both biocompatible and aerospace compliant. Straddling the industries of medicine and aerospace, OPM…
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Must Read First Quantitative 3D Printing Sustainability Study
”If 3DP was applicable to larger production volumes in consumer products or automotive manufacturing, it contains the (theoretical) potential to absolutely decouple energy and CO2 emission from economic activity.” — Malte Gebler, Anton J.M. Schoot Uiterkamp, Cindy Visser, 2014, A…
Made in Space’s Zero G 3D Printer Reporting for Duty on ISS
Even though, as Joseph Prusa tweeted a few weeks ago, any FFF 3D printer can theoretically print in a zero gravity environment, theory is one thing – especially when talking about space – while practical application is an entirely different…
Sigma Secures Government Funding to Redesign Aerospace Products Using 3D Printing
UK aerospace parts manufacturing company Sigma Components has announced that it has received a £140,000 investment from NATEP – National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme – to develop 3D printed jet parts and fittings. The government program was set up to…
JBRND is Developing Aircraft Parts Quicker with 3D Printing
Luxury aircraft parts manufacturer JBRND has begun using 3D printing and rapid prototyping to reduce the lead-time needed to develop new products and components. Most recently 3D printed parts were used to test fit parts on a GE turboprop engine…
Alcoa Explores the Potential Use of 3D Printing in Aluminum Manufacturing
After joining the United States’ first 3D printing institute, America Makes, in 2013, Alcoa Inc. has begun looking into how they can best incorporate 3D printing technology into their business as the third largest producer of aluminum in the world. …
3D Printing is Fit for a King (or a Sultan)
The rise of 3D printing technologies will make cost-effective customization tools available to most people — eventually. However, customisation tends to come at a price, and even more so in the early days of a new technology that makes it…
Sculpteo’s 3D Printed Model Determines Optimal Rosetta Landing Site
Landing a spacecraft as big as a manatee on an enormous comet seems like science fiction. But there is a comet — named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — that the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to explore. In just a few days, the…
Spaceward Bound For Large SLS Part
One of the longest components produced using powder bed printing, at 40cm, is soon to head into orbit around the Earth. Industrial additive manufacturing solutions company EOS has provided the 3D printing prowess for the satellite-part redesign, in the form…
3D Printed Rocket Part Passes Fire Test
A copper alloy additive manufacturing technology withstood a series of hot-fire tests on an advanced rocket engine Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) by NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company. The testing happened to be a first for the…
