I just spent almost a week at Formnext, in Frankfurt, Germany, along with eight of my Sigma Labs’ colleagues. Formnext bills itself as international meeting point for the next generation of intelligent industrial production. The organizers are not kidding since in…
Listen to the podcast. As Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems improve in speed and output quality, many are considering it as a method for mass production. The technology's evolution from a prototyping to manufacturing mechanism is not exactly straight forward.…
Metal 3D printing is changing the way we create parts. In low- to mid-volume production runs, the parts themselves can be made faster, cheaper, and with lower effort than traditional manufacturing processes. To gain an insight into how this area is…
As an engineer, when I talk about PrintRite3D® from Sigma Labs, I tend to dive deep into the technical bits of what we do and how we do it. I’ll get into the intricacies of Bichromatic Planck Thermometry, laser optics,…
In this video, recorded for the ASME AM Summit July 2021, Alex Benham shows how the addition of an In-Situ monitoring system can propel the overall quality and economics of your additive manufacturing production operation to greater heights. The content…
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to review a paper on in-situ monitoring for LPBF manufacturing. The paper – expected publication in September 2021 – was authored by eleven contributors from Dublin City University, University College Dublin, and…
I am writing this from the Additive Manufacturing User Group (AMUG) conference in Orlando. It’s great to see so many of our customers, partners, and industry contacts in person. The conversations at our booth and on the show floor are…
This article about IPQA originally appeared on Polaris Motion's website. Imagine if you could shorten the production cycle for complex parts in industries like Aerospace and advanced manufacturing. Further imagine that instead of producing them locally you could send CAD…
A recent International Trade Association report on the leading European additive manufacturing (AM) marketplace, stated that “Until two years ago, German firms mainly used AM for prototyping and proof-of-concept applications. In 2019, AM use was expanded…the pandemic made more German firms realize…
As I stated in the original version of this article, at 3D Metal Printing Magazine, each of us has a conception of what the term “machine learning” means. Basically, machine learning is based on the idea that systems can learn…