Additive Manufacturing

MAY 2016

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING is the magazine devoted to industrial applications of 3D printing and digital layering technology. We cover the promise and the challenges of this technology for making functional tooling and end-use production parts.

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MAY 2016 Additive Manufacturing NEWS 8 Stephanie Hendrixson / Associate Editor GE Opens Pittsburgh Additive Manufacturing Center Opened in April, GE's Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA), located near Pittsburgh in Findlay Township, Pennsylvania, will be the company's fagship center for additive manufacturing with a focus on developing and imple- menting industrial applications from which all GE businesses and cus- tomers can beneft. According to the company, the facility represents a $39 million investment over three years and will result in the creation of 50 high-tech engineering jobs. ge.com Carbon 3D Adds Four Service Bureau Customers Carbon 3D, the creator of Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) technology, has added four 3D printing service bureaus and contract manufactur- ers to its early customer program. CIDEAS, Sculpteo, The Technology House and WestStar Precision will ofer CLIP technology as part of their additive manufacturing services. According to Carbon 3D, the CLIP process enables product designers and engineers to pro- duce polymeric parts that have the resolution, surface fnish and mechanical properties required for both functional prototyping and production parts for industries as varied as automotive, medical and consumer electronics. CLIP uses a tunable photo- chemical process to rapidly Concept Laser Wins 2016 IAMA Concept Laser GmbH of Lichten- fels, Germany, has won the 2016 International Additive Manufactur- ing Award (IAMA), topping 15 other entries with its additive manufac- turing process-monitoring system. The company accepted the award earlier this year at the Inside 3D Printing conference during METAV in Düsseldorf, Germany. Concept Laser's winning innova- tion is an in-situ real-time process monitoring system for powder-bed additive manufacturing. The system measures properties such as size and intensity of the melting path's thermal radiation in ultra-high resolution, and displays the data in correlation to the position of the melting path on the workpiece's surface and thus to the compo- nent's geometry. The system is meant to help the user localize and evaluate process anomalies during production. "Our innovation enables downstream test processes to be reduced to a minimum, which helps to save both time and money," says Frank Herzog, managing partner and founder of Concept Laser. "In addition, the process ofers an entirely new approach for research and development centers tasked not only with improving the process, but also new materials and compo- nent geometries." concept-laser.de Concept Laser accepted the award at the METAV trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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