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SME, the nonprofit committed to accelerating new manufacturing technology adoption and building North America''s talent, today announced nominations are now open for four additive manufacturing awards and for its AM Pitchfest scheduled for RAPID + TCT 2024, North America''s largest and most influential additive
Additive manufacturing technologies require securing our manufacturing systems, and it''s even more critical because the design-to-production process is so much faster. In the past, replicating a design in a timely manner was difficult. Replicating designs has become much easier—and those designs are easier to steal.
The factors consist of benefits of additive manufacturing technology for SMEs, challenges of implementation of additive manufacturing in SMEs and business environment for acceptance of this technology in SMEs. The above discussed factors are well researched in large manufacturing companies (Arnold & Voigt, 2019; Niaki, Torabi,
Additive design may mean modifying an existing conventional design for 3D printing purposes, or starting from scratch with a true design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) mindset. Additively manufactured designs often aim for assembly consolidation and lightweighting. They are conducive to biomimicry and complex
SME Executive Director and CEO Bob Willig recently sat down with Terry Wohlers, additive manufacturing (AM) industry expert and influencer, and publisher of the Wohlers Report
4 · The 2022 issue of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Industry Report expands to evaluate the larger additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem. Providing expert opinions,
Additive manufacturing became popular among the manufacturer SMEs due to advantages such as part producing with a multi-material and creating the complex parts in a single step [2, 17].Recent research shows that the AM process boosts the income, product price, and competitiveness of the SMEs besides decreasing the time to
Medical is one of the fastest-growing application areas of additive manufacturing. Whether as a better way to manufacture or enabling patient-specific devices, additive manufacturing has distinct advantages for medicine. This page brings together resources to help you understand and optimize your application of stage of the 3D process.
4 · The 2022 issue of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Industry Report expands to evaluate the larger additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem. Providing expert
Additive manufacturing is revolutionizing – everything around us everything we touch, see, hear, drive, fly, and build. For 35 years, SME has gathered the greatest minds in industrial 3D printing and additive manufacturing to
Additive manufacturing has the potential to attain 1% of global manufacturing revenue in the next five years. For Canada this would translate to $2 billion GDP, an opportunity NGen looks to help achieve.
2 · The 2024 edition of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Industry Report explores the future of AM as the industry transitions to mainstream production applications. Read on
The case for additive manufacturing in orthopedics. Scaling additive manufacturing is simply a question of adding more machines. Within the healthcare and medical sector, it is the orthopedic sector that continues to adopt additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, at an astonishing rate. Industry analyst SmarTech estimates that the
2 · The 2021 issue of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Industry Report is comprehensive, in-depth look at how the emerging technology of additive manu 2020 Aerospace & Defense Report This industry report includes feature articles, shop solutions, and other stories about what took place in Aerospace & Defense in 2020.
This paper summarizes the challenges faced by SMEs in the digitalization process and analyses the barriers that SMEs in adopting additive manufacturing which
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Jan. 18, 2024 — SME, the nonprofit committed to accelerating new manufacturing technology adoption and building North America''s talent, today announced nominations are now open for four additive manufacturing awards and for its AM Pitchfest scheduled for RAPID + TCT 2024, North America''s largest and most influential additive
SME, the professional association committed to advancing manufacturing and developing a skilled workforce, announced the winners of its Additive Manufacturing Community Awards, which were presented today at RAPID + TCT 2021, North America''s largest and most influential additive manufacturing (AM) event, Sept. 13-15 at
Adopting additive manufacturing (AM) can be challenging, especially in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and as part of the supply chains of larger firms. The purpose of this paper is to explore SMEs'' perspectives on the adoption of AM in their specific supply chain positions. The paper develops new knowledge on the challenges
Additive manufacturing (AM) has taken on a major role in the development and production of components and spare parts for Siemens Energy in
Rapid + TCT 2024: AM IN LOS ANGELES. On June 25-27, 2024, RAPID + TCT will return to the West Coast for the first time in nearly a decade! The three-day event will feature the latest in 3D-printing technology from the
Tooling U-SME offers an optional preparatory program covering foundational additive manufacturing topics such as design for additive manufacturing, binder and material jetting, sheet lamination, math fundamentals, and more – topics agreed upon by manufacturing experts as being relevant for foundational additive manufacturing
SME''s AM Technical Community Leadership Committee focuses on the technologies and processes that help conceive, test, improve and manufacture new products to bring them to market faster and most cost
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, March 11, 2024 — SME, the nonprofit committed to accelerating new manufacturing technology adoption and building North America''s talent and capabilities, announces the establishment of the SME Additive Manufacturing Production Club, recognizing manufacturers for their exceptional contributions to additive
Jennifer currently serves as an SME Additive Manufacturing Community Advisor, and has 8 US patents. She''s also received multiple recognition awards including SME''s Women Leading the Way in Additive Manufacturing in 2024, Railway Age''s Top Women in Rail 2020, 2017 GE Transportation''s Women in Technology Award,
The 2023 edition of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Industry Report explores the future of AM as the industry transitions to mainstream production
Additive manufacturing takes virtual blueprints from computer-aided design (CAD) or animation modeling software and "slices" them into digital cross-sections for the machine to successively use during its controlled build process. Depending on the machine used, the material is bonded, fused, coalesced, or activated in a bed or on a platform to construct
By using feedstock from the manufacturing process—including used AM powders, AM support structures, non-conforming 3D prints and certified chemistry machining scrap—6K Additive can
Chair. Stacey DelVecchio, FSWE President StaceyD Consulting. Stacey DelVecchio, F.SWE is President of Stacey D Consulting, focused on the business of additive manufacturing. She is a chair of SME''s Additive Manufacturing Technical Community Leadership Committee and a previous industry peer review panelist for Oakridge National Labs
Jeff DeGrange, FSME, is being recognized by SME''s Additive Manufacturing Technical Community as the 2023 AM Industry Achievement Award Winner for his contributions over a distinguished career for creating an additive organization within McDonnell Douglas/Boeing that certified, qualified, and developed additive manufacture additive