Through its memberships in America Makes, WMT&R joins other leading member organizations from industry, academia, government, non-government agencies, and workforce and economic development resources that are working together to innovate and accelerate additive manufacturing and 3-D printing.

Mold maker reports significant time and cost efficiencies utilizing this approach for low volume production, enabling molders to quickly change inserts for different products.

Methods 3D, Inc. added the new ProX DMP 320 to its growing line of direct metal 3-D printers from 3D Systems.

Some observers of the plastics manufacturing industry, especially those with a vested interest, would like to have you believe that 3-D printing is going to be the demise of injection molding.

The efficient and early inclusion of quality in the Digital Tapestry is changing the way Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems does business. We are creating a seamless link between engineering, production and the supply chain. Using virtual design tools, we use the same 3-D information from concept to cosmos, making a faster and more affordable life cycle.

Crump is the inventor of the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method of 3-D printing, an additive manufacturing process.