A research team has made two discoveries that can expand additive manufacturing in aerospace and other industries that rely on strong metal parts. A research team led by Tao Sun, associate professor ...

Many manufacturing leaders are still treating additive as an emerging technology to monitor rather than an industrialized capability to deploy.

Five years ago, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman gave us Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing, 1 helping to both create and ride a wave of enthusiasm for 3D printing. This enthusiasm, combined with the ...

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, refers to a group of technologies that create products through the addition of materials (typically layer by layer) rather than by subtraction ...

Additive manufacturing has contributed to aircraft production for years, as reported by the Association for Manufacturing Technology. However, additive manufacturing also generates defects in the ...