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A new facility purpose-built for additive manufacturing has opened at the Bristol base of the British aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce. The Additive Manufacturing Development Cell was inaugurated by Luke Pollard MP, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, with Claire Hazelgrove MP also in attendance. Backed by UK Ministry of Defence funding, the cell is…

In 2024, 68% of FDM 3D printing failures stem from misconfigured slicer profiles, according to a survey of 12,000 prints across 400 open-source hardware labs. This tutorial walks you through building a programmatic slicer profile management tool that cuts failure rates by 72% and reduces manual tuning time from 12 hours to 45 minutes, validated against 1,200 benchmark prints. What You'll Build Yo…

Exclusive: Sev.en Global Investments could turn state-owned businesses into Britain’s biggest steelmaker Business live – latest updates The owner of the UK’s largest electric steelworks has said the government should find a single buyer for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), a move that would create the country’s biggest steelmaker. Sev.en Global Investments, owned by the Czech billion…

Amnovis, the Belgian metal additive manufacturing contract manufacturer focused on regulated industries, is entering the United States market, establishing a new production site in North Webster, Indiana, and acquiring the additive manufacturing activities of Westconn Precision Technologies. A Mirror Site Built for Regulated Manufacturing The new Indiana facility is being built as an operational …

In Part 2, we outlined materials challenges that can impact robotic soldering performance. In Part 3, we shift to product solutions and emerging innovations—highlighting how cored wire performance and future technologies continue to raise the bar for precision manufacturing. The post Robotic Soldering, Smarter (Part 3): Indium Corporation’s Innovation and the Future of Robotic Soldering appeared …

A research team led by Senior Researcher Dr. Jun Sae Han at the Nano Lithography and Manufacturing Research Center, Nano-Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), has proposed a roll-to-roll (R2R)-based direct roll lamination process.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tim Goodell discovered a passion for 3D printing when he started making face shields for health care workers — while still in high school.   “At the […]

Plastic injection molding is a high-volume manufacturing process used to make accurate, repeatable plastic parts. It supports everyday and industrial products across automotive, medical, electronics, packaging, appliance, consumer goods, and machinery markets. Manufacturers use it for one clear reason: once a part design is stable and the mold is built, the same part can be...

U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Technologies has finalized a $1 billion investment from the Department of War (DoW) into its newly formed Missile Solutions (MSL) business. The capital will flow toward expanding facilities, accelerating research and development, and increasing production capacity for technologies the Pentagon considers critical to national security. The investment takes the form …

Hangzhou-based metal 3D printing manufacturer Eplus3D has launched the EP-M3050, a metal powder bed fusion system that surpasses the long-standing three-meter barrier with a 3,050 x 3,050 mm build area, up to 256 lasers, and a five-meter Z-axis, making single-build production of industrial-scale metal components a commercial reality. “Scaling metal PBF beyond three meters is…

Volkmann GmbH, a Germany-based manufacturer of metal powder conveying equipment, has introduced the vPort, a semi-automated, contained powder handling system developed in partnership with HP Additive Manufacturing Solutions. Announced on April 7, 2026, the system is designed specifically for the HP Metal Jet S100 series of binder jet 3D printers and is now available in…

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded Colibrium Additive, a subsidiary of GE Aerospace, a $31 million contract as part of its Additive Manufacturing Capability initiative. The program targets a persistent challenge in military aviation: accelerating the testing, qualification, and certification of metal additively manufactured components to keep fleet aircraft mission-ready. Bui…

Naval spare parts logistics, built around centralized warehouses and extended supply chains, has long been a structural vulnerability in defense readiness. 3D printer manufacturer ROBOZE is leading DIgitales partes Ad Necessitatem Armatorum (DIANA), a research and development initiative backed by the Italian Ministry of Defence under the National Military Research Plan, to dismantle that dependen…

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has won the 2026 SME Aubin Additive Manufacturing Case Study Award, which recognizes outstanding real-world applications of 3D printing. ORNL's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility led the effort, using large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) to create high-precision molds for advanced nuclear reactors. The work could help lo…

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are under pressure to increase output, maintain strict compliance, and protect their workforce, all within tightly controlled environments. Yet many facilities still rely on manual palletizing at the end of the line, where variability and risk are hardest to control. As a result, more pharmaceutical manufacturers are adopting robotic palletizing as a standard part of …

MX3D, a Dutch company specializing in robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM), has announced the conclusion of the PIONEER project, an EU Horizon-funded initiative in which the company served as a pilot line leader within a broader European consortium. The effort centered on industrializing automated design, fabrication, and certification workflows for structurally optimized, load-bearing …

In this article, a Design for Manufacturing (DfM)-centered capstone framework is presented for organizing the full Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) cycle of a competition vehicle within a single academic semester. While competition-based capstone studies have reported benefits in experiential learning and subsystem development, they rarely explain how manufacturability constraints, config…

In Part 1, we covered how robotic soldering evolved, and why materials quality is a major driver of process stability and precision. In Part 2, we focus on common materials-related issues that can disrupt robotic soldering outcomes, and what manufacturers can do to control them. The post Robotic Soldering, Smarter (Part 2): Tackling Common Materials Challenges in Robotic Soldering appeared first …

HIGH-HEAT-FLUX RESISTANCE HEATERS FROM VPS AND HVOF THERMAL SPRAYING Michels, D.; Hadeler, J.; Lienhard, John H This article describes the application of thermal spray techniques to produce resistance heating elements suitable for applying very large heat flaxes to solid surfaces. The surface to be heated is electrically insulated by deposition of a ceramic layer onto which a thin metallic layer …