Desktop Metal, a leader in mass production additive manufacturing (AM) solutions, today announced the company has installed more than 1,100 3D printing systems for metal components worldwide.
Gérard Coumes, Head of Innovation and New Services Department in Toulouse, Juan Antonio Marchán, Head of Additive Manufacturing in Spain, and Fabrice Rusch, the Bordeaux site manager for Safran Engineering Services, explain to us the benefits and challenges of this new-generation manufacturing process.
As one of the fastest growing end mill and drill areas in the Seco Tools portfolio, the company’s solid-round tool reconditioning service experienced an increase in use by over 30% in 2022.
With the FW4 and MW4 wiper geometries, Walter is launching two turning indexable insert geometries which combine the "wiper effect" with new chip breaker geometries and extremely wear-resistant Walter Tiger·tec® Gold grades.
NSK has developed a new type of ball screw that exhibits reduced motion errors to deliver higher surface finish quality for machine tools used in mould and die machining and other surface-critical applications. By eliminating or reducing the time needed for secondary burnishing or polishing applications, the new ball screw also contributes to higher productivity, while simultaneously reducing the amount of drive torque to save energy.
AddUp and Dassault Aviation are collaborating to move metal additive manufacturing processes from "prototyping" to "mass production" for aeronautics. To achieve this, additive technology must be optimized to demonstrate its capabilities in terms of quality, reproducibility, and productivity, to consider the mass production of metal parts that will then be integrated into aircraft.