Lighter weight and more energy efficiency go together in automotive design. It’s what many auto manufacturers strive for to be competitive and meet consumer demand. 3D printing is helping them achieve this goal. Read the rest of this entry »
3D printers aren’t just for applications here on earth. NASA is aggressively using 3D printing to fabricate parts used on their spacecraft. They also sent a 3D printer into space and remotely fabricate parts from waste plastics. While we are familiar with 3D printing for manufacturing in industries such as automotive, medical, and defense, aerospace and deep space missions are finding more uses for 3D printed parts.
In my previous post, What Skills Are Required for "New-Collar Jobs" In Manufacturing?, I interviewed Sarah Boisvert, Founder of Fab Lab Hub and author of The New Collar Workforce, about the new types of skills that people will need for the increasingly technology-intensive "new collar" manufacturing jobs.
As I talked about in an earlier GrabCAD blog post, For Hardware Entrepreneurs and Startups, What Opportunities and Benefits Do "Smart Manufacturing" and "Industry 4.0" Offer?, "Smart Manufacturing" and "Industry 4.0" have begun improving and transforming traditional manufacturing processes and facilities.
Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems and up to a quarter of all ocean species depend on them for food and shelter. However, according to the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation,around 25 percent of the planet’s coral reefs have already disappeared and anestimated two-thirds of all coral reefs are currently at risk. In Southeast Asia specifically – home to the most species rich reefs on earth – 88 percent of reefs are facing extinction. Let that sink in for a moment.
3D printing is about to change the way yachts are built around the world. Recently, The Wall Street Journal described how a huge 15-ton 3D printer more than 16-feet tall called CFAM is being used to design yachts.
3D printing, often associated with additive manufacturing and more industrial environments, is becoming another capital asset at facilities that can truly benefit from it: hospitals.
I visited Italy several times as a young child and was fascinated by the Italian technique of paper marbling. I begged my parents to buy me the marbled-paper-covered notebooks and pencils sold in Italian stationery stores.
All branches of the armed forces have a watchword central to their core missions: self-sufficiency.
Because soldiers venture into some of the world’s harshest environments – foreign battlefields, or deep in the ocean aboard a ship or submarine – they often lack support from others, and from equipment and supplies to help them in a needed situation: to create structures or make repairs to an existing one.