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Additive Manufacturing Blog Posts - Page 3
- From The Additive Report
3D printing offers ‘Blue Ocean’ opportunities
- By Kip Hanson
- Jan 23, 2021
- Blog Post
Additive manufacturing lets entrepreneurs not swim with the sharks.
- From The Additive Report
Why companies should reshore prototyping and other manufacturing operations
- By Empire Group USA
- Jan 17, 2021
- Blog Post
The reasons offshoring began in the first place are no longer applicable to manufacturing in the 21st century.
- From The Additive Report
Additive Report Advisor: The truth about 3D printing in metal fabrication
- By Todd Grimm
- Jan 6, 2021
- Blog Post
Our new video series Additive Report Advisor with host Todd Grimm will provide real, honest insights about the advantages and disadvantages that additive manufacturing and other 3D-printing technologies present to metal fabrication shops.
- From The Additive Report
Mergers and acquisitions are good for the 3D printing industry
- By Don Nelson
- Dec 28, 2020
- Blog Post
The COVID-19 pandemic put the brakes on mergers and acquisitions, including deals between 3D printing companies. But activity is starting up again—and so are disagreements as to whether such deals help or hurt industry.
- From The Additive Report
Mixed feelings about additive manufacturing business acquisitions
- By Kip Hanson
- Dec 20, 2020
- Blog Post
While there are some positives, The Additive Report contributor Kip Hanson contends that business acquisitions within the additive manufacturing industry can mostly stifle 3D printing innovation.
- From The Additive Report
Giving thanks for additive manufacturing
- By Kip Hanson
- Dec 1, 2020
- Blog Post
Everyone should be thankful for the way the manufacturing community stepped up during the coronavirus pandemic.
- From The Additive Report
Virtual trade shows suffer growing pains
- By Don Nelson
- Nov 16, 2020
- Blog Post
Additive manufacturing trade show Formnext was a virtual event this year and, for the first time since being launched, participation dropped. The same goes for other industrial 3D printing events.
- From The Additive Report
Birthdays and the ‘unthinkables’ of additive manufacturing
- By Kip Hanson
- Oct 21, 2020
- Blog Post
One regret blogger Kip Hanson has about getting older is all the 3D printers he won’t be around to write about.
- From The Additive Report
Reassessing ‘junky’ 3D printers
- By Kip Hanson
- Oct 6, 2020
- Blog Post
Kip Hanson keeps mental lists of equipment he would and wouldn’t install in a shop.
- From The Additive Report
Why can’t additive manufacturing gain traction as a production process?
- By Don Nelson
- Sep 25, 2020
- Blog Post
A recent survey concludes that the AM industry needs to hurdle four obstacles to become an accepted manufacturing process.
- From The Additive Report
The first Bridgeport I crashed—and other shop memories
- By Kip Hanson
- Sep 18, 2020
- Blog Post
Memories, be they of freshly cut grass or a 1-in. micrometer, can elicit a vague sense of loss.
- From The Additive Report
3D printing news: from rockets to chicken nuggets
- By Kip Hanson
- Aug 26, 2020
- Blog Post
Blogger Kip Hanson shares all the additive manufacturing news that fits into a 400-word blog.
- From The Additive Report
The supersizing of 3D printers
- By Kip Hanson
- Aug 10, 2020
- Blog Post
According to blogger Kip Hanson, it seems like 3D printer builders are taking cues from the documentary Super Size Me.
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing firms await better times to roll out new products
- By Don Nelson
- Jul 28, 2020
- Blog Post
AM research is focusing on metal printers for serial production, automated postprocessing systems, and high-temp thermoplastics.
- From The Additive Report
You can hand-program a CNC lathe—but not a 3D printer
- By Kip Hanson
- Jul 22, 2020
- Blog Post
There’s a symbiotic relationship formed by a 3D printer, its software systems, and build processing.
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