Bart Van der Schueren, Materialise’s Chief Technology Officer, highlights where businesses need to focus in order to safeguard their investments in product development.

As businesses face rising financial pressures, cuts in new development can be expected across industries. Quick wins on cost cuts are tempting: but they come at a strategic cost, argues Bart Van der Schueren. A smart use of AM, as detailed by the advisory service of Materialise Mindware, can shed new light on product development and market introduction of new products without the need for capital expenditure commitments. By using AM right, capex can be postponed until there is a clear view on market acceptance of an in-development product, resulting in a hugely valuable de-risking exercise for the capex.

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How to Use Simulation and Reduce Costs in Metal AM

When you’ve been using Metal 3D Printing for some time, your main challenge isn’t how to make it work. It’s how to make it worthwhile.

Join Manuel Michiels for a 40-minute webinar, where he’ll demonstrate why simulation software is the key to unlocking cost efficiency and productivity in your metal additive manufacturing production.

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Additive Manufacturing for Tooling and Mold Making–Real World Examples from Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann GmbH

oin this webinar and learn about the advantages of additive manufacturing in the tooling and molding industry. You’ll hear from Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann GmbH, a leading German Tooling company, that has been successfully producing tool inserts and molds and innovating with additive manufacturing for over 60 years.

This webinar will help you understand the:

• Advantages of additive manufacturing for mold making and tool inserts
• Ways to use additive manufacturing for producing tools and molds
• Cost and performance benefits of additive manufacturing for the tooling market
• Design possibilities to optimize your mold and tools

Additive manufacturing offers unlimited possibilities for tools and molds in the plastic injecting molding and die casting industries because of the capability to build customized and extraordinarily complex cooling channels.

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Stryker, a world leading medical technology company, offers innovative products and services in Orthopedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.  AMagine is Stryker’s proprietary approach to implant creation, using additive manufacturing (AM).  AM allows Stryker to push beyond conventional manufacturing techniques to allow for increased design complexity and achieve previously un-manufacturable constructs.  We will journey through Stryker’s history and proprietary additive-centered approach to designing and manufacturing devices to create revolutionary design freedom.

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Additive Manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, rapid prototyping or freeform fabrication, is “the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies” such as machining. The term 3D printing can be defined as “the fabrication of objects through the deposition of a material using a print head, nozzle, or another printer technology.”

There are 2 main families of additive manufacturing technologies:

• Powder bed technologies
  • Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) where the metal powder is melted by a laser beam
  • Electron Beam Melting (EBM) where the metal powder is melted by an electron beam after a preheating step
  • Precision inkjet printing where the metal powder is mixed with a binder: after the printing operation, the part is consolidated by sintering
• Blown powder technologies, also known as Laser Metal Deposition or Laser cladding
  • In this process, the metal powder is blown coaxially to the laser beam which melts the particles on a base metal to form a metallurgical bond when cooled

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Optimér din forretning med 3D-print

Med dette kursus bliver du i stand til at se de tekniske og økonomiske fordele med 3D-print. Kurset giver et overblik over udbredte teknologier og materialer samt lovende teknologier under udvikling. Desuden får du viden om de økonomiske perspektiver, så du kan vurdere, hvornår og hvordan du skaber øget værdi med 3D-print.

Endelig vil der være en introduktion til de designmæssige muligheder og overvejelser, der opstår i arbejdet med 3D-print. 3D-print opretholder konkurrenceevnen.

Additive Manufacturing (AM), eller i daglig tale 3D-print, bliver i stigende grad anvendt som produktionsressource og dermed ikke kun til prototyper. Flere uafhængige analyser peger på AM som én af de fremstillingsteknologier, som dansk industri kan anvende for at opretholde konkurrenceevnen og fastholde danske produktionsarbejdspladser. Som kursist hos Teknologisk Institut, er du sikker på en uvildig og objektiv demonstration af teknologien.

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AM and 3D printing as a driver for sustainable manufacturing

Join the largest AM conference in Scandinavia October 27th 2020

The third annual AM Summit is a conference for everyone who is interested in the development and influence of AM technology and who wants to become smarter, inspired and network with the main influencers in AM and 3D printing.

The conference provides international business leaders, creative forces and AM innovators with a forum for sharing knowledge and experience and a unique opportunity to let creative actors present their qualified bids for the AM industry’s future.

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This is ASTM International’s fifth event related to standardization, qualification and certification with an emphasis on industry specific requirements addressing the entire AM process chain.

With the creation of ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in early 2018, and the growth of the AM industry, the effort has been led by the ASTM AM CoE and involves additional technical committees. This year event is now a full International conference with an even wider scope still related to standardization, qualification, and certification. This will be an event involving even more ASTM committees and external stakeholders, setting the stage to bring experts from all around the world to exchange the latest development in the field of additive manufacturing with emphasis on transition of research to standardization.

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SAVE THE DATES

This year’s High Tech Summit will focus on all technologies, research institutions and companies powering the wave of new solutions, new business and new ways of thinking towards the green transition of society.

We aim to introduce and showcase more innovative technology than ever before – making High Tech Summit your sneak peek on pre-market technologies and new business that can change the world.

Save the dates and make sure to sign up for High Tech Summit 2020 when registration opens in August. Join more than 5,000 other participants exploring how Energy Supply, Transport, Manufacturing, Buildings & Construction, andSustainable Food & Health enabled by digital technologies can create a more sustainable future.

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Professionel 3D-print i praksis

Kurset gør dig i stand til at se de tekniske aspekter og fordele ved 3D-print – og du lærer at udnytte dem. Du får et overblik over de forskellige produktionsprocesser samt en grundig og praktisk gennemgang af de mange konstruktionsmæssige muligheder og designregler, der gælder, når man arbejder med 3D-print.

Designreglerne gennemgås bl.a. ved hjælp af en række repræsentative cases, som yderligere illustrerer mulighederne.

Undervejs vil der være en række hands-on øvelser, og du får desuden indsigt i de forskellige muligheder for efterbehandling og kvalitetssikring samt sikkerheden omkring 3D-print produktion. Endelig giver kurset viden om, hvordan 3D-printteknologierne kan forenes og implementeres i din virksomheds eksisterende produktionslinjer.

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Women in 3D Printing is pleased to introduce its first annual conference.

The TIPE Conference highlights four primary tracks: Technology, Industry, People, Economics.

Set to take place for the first time in Denver, Colorado on January 27 and 28, 2021, the event is a first not only for Wi3DP, but for the additive manufacturing industry: it will be the first with an all-female speakers lineup.

Much like other conferences in 3D printing don’t tout their often-all-male lineups, though, that isn’t the primary factor at play for this event. While the event is put on by Wi3DP and thus inherently highlights the growing diversity of the 3D printing industry, you won’t find the oft-appearing “diversity panel” here. Rather, each speaker is being selected to address their areas of expertise.

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“INDUSTRIAL AM- THE FUTURE IS NOW!”

Under the founding partnership of Airbus, BASF, Deutsche Bahn, MgA, Stratasys and 3YOURMIND, this AM conference for decision-makers and experts brings together the value chain of additive manufacturing: AM users & AM solution providers in the form of printer manufacturers, material suppliers and service providers meet in Berlin. Over 1,200 participants will spend two days exchanging information on AM cases and the latest developments with over 130 exhibitors and more than 100 speakers.

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