This core was 3D printed from steel at Star Rapid using a Renishaw AM 250 printer. Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...

Recently [Stefan] of CNC Kitchen took a gander at using his gaggle of 3D printers to try injection molding (IM). Although the IM process generally requires metal molds and specialized machinery, 3D ...

If you’re interested in learning more about whether 3D printers can be used for injection molding. You might be interested in a series of tests carried out by the CNC Kitchen to explore the ...

Can high-volume parts be made via 3D printing, bypassing the mold and molding machine and disrupting an entire industry? That is a big question that injection molders and moldmakers have just started ...

Detroit — Can 3D printing compete on the same manufacturing level as injection molding? HP Inc.'s David Woodlock thinks it can — eventually. Woodlock, who handles market development for 3D printing at ...

A growing number of device firms are using 3-D printing to produce injection molds. About five years ago, Nadav Sella, now director, manufacturing tools at Stratasys, spotted a company using 3-D ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Based out of Syracuse, New York, leading manufacturing hub, 3D Usher’s new instant quoting tool expedites manufacturing for plastic parts. The tool can be accessed on ...

A paper presented by David Kazmer, Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell at the recent ANTEC conference estimates that 3D printing currently makes sense for the ...

To mimic the dexterity of human hands, robot grippers have undergone significant advancements to pick and place a variety of products ever more deftly. Many of these advances were based on giving ...