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Feelings: An invitation to look inside https://ift.tt/lc58VGI Feelings: An invitation to look inside is an evocative and heartfelt animated masterpiece crafted by State – a global Creative Studio with an unrestrained passion for heartfelt ideas, unique experiences, and sleek design. The film, which was created for the main titles of Offf Festival 2023 in Barcelona, delves into the intricate depths of existence, and explores the immense weight of emotions and the profound impact they have on our lives. Starting from a concept from Stanislav Grof’s theory, the Perinatal Matrices are based on clinical observations of experiences of expanded states of consciousness. Featuring an priginal score and sound design by Zelig, and directed by Marcel Ziul, through candid and thought-provoking storytelling, Feelings invites the viewer to delve into the complexity of their own feelings. With poignant times of sensitivity and self-reflection, the animation offers powerful moments of introspection, revealing the universal struggles of love, loss, happiness, loneliness, rejection, joy, and the search for purpose. This piece captures two aspects connected to each other: the reliving of biological birth and psycho-spiritual rebirth. The matrices are archetypes, that is, they are not determined by biological memory, but rather, they are part of the collective unconscious. In general, matrices are experiential patterns, worlds with specific parameters and unique characteristics. They define the way in which a person sees themselves, the world, and everything that exists. Therefore, we are always under the influence of some matrix, in some situation, throughout our existence. Naivety, Antagonism, Synergism and Separation, and Freedom are the four phases we go through. During these phases we form seeds of all of the emotions we’ll develop later in life. These matrices are the foundation of State’s film project, which they use as a path to guide the audience through the visual narrative. State use design as a form to visually represent the differences between the matrices – it’s a visual journey that evolves with each matrix. Unapologetic and bold, Feelings is a must-watch for anyone who has ever felt the crushing weight of their emotions, and seeks to rise above them. This film is a testament to the transformative power of openness and a reminder that our true strength lies in facing our innermost fears and confronting our vulnerabilities. As part of Offf Festival, State also launched an amazing rebrand which comes from a collaboration of Vasava and Héctor Ayuso. In addition to this, State and Héctor also worked together to create a book that was given to all attendees which looked at the topic of feelings and mental issues in the creative community – the same issues State focused on in the main titles. Watch the film here. Printing via People of Print https://ift.tt/R3TGugA March 28, 2023 at 05:44AM
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FeatureCo. https://ift.tt/fq6cVrb A small company that fills a big gap in the market, FeatureCo. put a much-needed spotlight on carefully-curated, high-quality prints of art, designed by independent artists from around the world, whilst giving each artist the commission they deserve. Offering customers exclusive, limited run, graphic design art prints for their home or office, each piece of art is created exclusively for FeatureCo – never seen anywhere before, or since! Thus, you’ll own something special. Each sale also benefits the artist directly; “we know how important it is to support the greats, we want them to keep creating!” Printed and packaged in house from their Brighton studio, each of FeatureCo’s pieces are printed to the highest quality using a 12 colour Giclee printing process. Thus far, their artist collaborations include edgy illustrator Illwookie, culture-hungry Ana Duje, and experimental artist Sebastian Abboud. www.wearefeature.co Printing via People of Print https://ift.tt/R3TGugA March 28, 2023 at 04:44AM
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3D Printing Firm Divergent Appoints Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Board https://ift.tt/WUH2iXK Divergent Technologies, creator of the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) and parent company of 3D printed supercar maker Czinger Vehicles, announced that it has appointed General Peter Pace, retired chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), to its board of directors. Pace was appointed as the 16th chairman of the JCS by George W. Bush, and served in that capacity between 2005 and 2007. In its most recent announcements, Divergent has deliberately signaled the company’s accelerating expansion into the defense market. Namely, last month, Divergent touted its partnership with nuclear firm/defense contractor General Atomics, through which DAPS is being used to print entire drone fuselages. (Last week, at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) conference, that partnership was the subject of a presentation delivered by representatives from both companies.) For anyone who still doesn’t think that the next decade of the future of AM lies in public spending in general, and military spending in particular, this development needs to serve as a reality check. Certainly, the US government has for years already been the largest single spender in the American AM market. However, the scale of spending has still, thus far, largely stayed within what can be thought of as an “R&D range.” When it comes to AM, the US military is only just now entering a range of spending characterized by regular yearly procurement schedules. Without getting into any exact numbers, just going off of the sheer number and monetary scale of projects announced so far this year: the difference between the new range of spending and the previous range of spending is going to be bigger than the difference between that previous, R&D range, and the pre-2012 years, when the military spent barely anything on AM, at all. Especially against the geopolitical backdrop of increased advanced manufacturing flexing between the American and Chinese governments, the appointment of a former JCS chairman to the board of an advanced manufacturing company is a move deliberately conceived to make a statement. It also suddenly elevates Divergent to the highest echelon of AM companies that are plugged into the government procurement pipeline. Along those same lines, given the complexities and concerns over domestic manufacturing requirements for the EV tax credit law, I wouldn’t be surprised if, soon enough, Divergent is printing EV batteries for Detroit. The post 3D Printing Firm Divergent Appoints Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Board appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/j2QpJFL March 27, 2023 at 03:56PM
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3D Printing News Unpeeled: Metal 3D Printing Pen, Shell Wall 3D Printing https://ift.tt/K3Zcoks Korean researchers have developed a new 3D Printing Metal technology. The technology uses an arc plasma heat source but continuously deposits molten droplets of metal letting one print overhangs and other complex structures. The researchers say that their process has better mechanical properties than WAAM and can be mounted on a robot arm. The technology could potentially make metal 3D printing much more accessible and prevalent. University of Michigan researchers Mania Aghaei Meibodi, Alireza Bayramvand and Yuxin Lin have developed a shell wall concrete 3D printing technique that variably deposits concrete while using nonplanar tool paths. This lets them use up to 73% less concrete through printing topology optimized structures. I was reading a patent on catheter balloon molds (I know, I should probably get out more) when I found a mention of 3D printing in the patent. 3D printing was mentioned as a possible mold manufacturing technology using beryllium copper or copper. Beryllium copper seems to be an exciting but not very available material for 3D printing, although Materion seems to make it. High value parts such as catheter´s or other balloon structures seem to make for a fantastic 3D printing application. But, what if we 3D printed the balloon itself out of a woven structure to inflate it more variably? And what if we made lots of sizes of balloon catheters or individualized them? The post 3D Printing News Unpeeled: Metal 3D Printing Pen, Shell Wall 3D Printing appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/j2QpJFL March 27, 2023 at 09:02AM
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Medical Goes Additive: How Social Networks Are Humanizing the 3D Printing Industry https://ift.tt/4IQjkqd It seems so obvious that it shouldn’t need to be said, but the activities of machines can only ever be, at most, half of what defines a technology. The remainder of the definition — at least half — is determined by human beings. With all the specters of AI, machine learning (ML), and general automation rearing their heads lately, it’s increasingly common for conversations surrounding emergent technologies to leave out the human component—except for the also still too infrequently asked question, “How afraid should workers be about being replaced?” In terms of trends involving positive symbioses between humans and technology, though, there are, probably justifiably, not many at the forefront of most people’s minds these days. I am not a techno-optimist. However, its compatibility with human ingenuity and collaboration is one reason I am more optimistic about additive manufacturing (AM) than I am about most other examples of next-generation digitization. And of all the AM market segments, medical may provide the most striking evidence of the potential for harmonious feedback loops between humanity and machines, given the direct impact that medical applications have on dramatically improving peoples’ lives. One individual who epitomizes that optimistic development is Dr. Cora Lüders-Theuerkauf, head of Medical at the Germany-based AM network, Mobility Goes Additive (MGA). MGA Medical was started in 2019, and is now comprised of six working groups that bring together corporations and institutions from around the world, to collaborate, troubleshoot, and advise one another on common issues that arise in medical 3D printing. I recently interviewed Lüders-Theuerkauf, a doctorate in biochemistry who worked for almost 20 years at the German Heart Institute in Berlin, to find out more about the way AM’s mainstreaming is being driven by the success of social networks: Lüders-Theuerkauf has firsthand experience with this set of topics, from multiple angles. In addition to an awareness of the benefits achievable with a network in place, the biologist also knows what it’s like to feel a need to ask others for help, and simply not have many options available. Moreover, as so often seems to be the case with AM industry professionals who got into the field either before or during the beginning of the desktop printing boom in the early 2010s, networking itself is largely responsible for the trajectory that Lüders-Theuerkauf’s career has taken. During a time when she was looking for another research job, following the completion of one of the projects she’d worked on, Lüders-Theuerkauf met the head of MGA, Stefanie Brickwede, who ended up asking the biologist to start MGA Medical. Pivotally, this was in 2019: thus, the network was in place when the pandemic began, an unprecedented catalyst for the acceleration of corporate entry into the medical manufacturing market, including medical AM. To be sure, that sort of crisis doesn’t solely come in the form of a pandemic, either. Expectedly, Lüders-Theuerkauf mentioned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well, which of course continues to be a far more immediate concern in Europe than it is in the rest of the world. Whatever the emergency, half the work of preparation is already done by a network’s having been established in advance. Now, the natural competitiveness bred by the habit of seeking ever-greater profits may mean that companies still have skepticism and awkwardness to work past when it comes to sharing information. But Lüders-Theuerkauf is encouraged by the unity she sees on display by MGA Medical members: Thus, at least in an insurgent field like AM, which already has legacy manufacturing to serve as a logical focal point for channeling competitive impulses toward, companies in the same space are starting to come around to the idea that there’s more to be gained by friendship than animus. This sense of camaraderie is going to be increasingly crucial to cultivate, as more and more newcomers enter the industry. And the key to ensuring the success of AM’s greater incorporation into everyday life is the presence in the sector of people like Dr. Cora Lüders-Theuerkauf, whose main assets lie even more so in being personable than they do in technical proficiency. 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Daring AM: Fueling the 3D Printing Space Race https://ift.tt/KwzmHVW Go ahead and take a deep breath because it’s hard to keep up with all the news about 3D printing for space. Thirty years ago, NASA began using additive manufacturing (AM) for rapid prototyping. Back then, the emerging technology was used to explore possibilities in plastic before building costly parts with metal. Fast-forward to today, 3D printing has gained popularity across the globe signaling new possibilities for manufacturing objects on Earth and in space. Across space agencies, national labs, and businesses, engineers and designers are trying out countless types of 3D printers that work with various plastics and metals. Just last month, NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) announced six new advances in space that use 3D printing. Let’s take a look at each one. Axiom lands two NASA missionsAstronauts suit up! Axiom Space just revealed the spacesuits for NASA‘s Artemis III moon mission. This prototype, the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit or AxEMU, will be worn by space crews on the Moon’s surface to help keep them safe and cool while working in one of the harshest environments known to humankind. The Houston-based space firm relies on 3D printing technology to build spacesuit components, saving time and money. During a CBS Mornings walkthrough of the facility where AxEMUs are being created, viewers could see the Axiom team using 3D printers from brands like Stratasys, Prusa, and Formlabs as they move forward with one of the core elements required for the agency’s 2025 mission launch target. Established in 2016 to build a commercial space station, Axiom has big plans to become the ISS’ successor and even drive the 3D printing in the space revolution, starting with bioprinting. But before any of that becomes real, NASA has chosen Axiom once again for the third private astronaut station mission launching no earlier than November 2023. One of the facets of these missions includes research, testing, and new technologies for microgravity. As part of the agreement, Axiom astronauts could take scientific samples to orbit, complete science research or perform tasks for the agency. Missions like these contribute to the agency’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization goal. NASA awards $15M to AM researchTwo new Space Technology Research Institutes (STRIs) will leverage teams led by U.S. universities to create multidisciplinary research and technology development programs in critical engineering and climate research areas. One of the research institutes will work to improve understanding and help enable rapid certification of metal parts created using advanced manufacturing techniques. Each institute will receive up to $15 million over five years. Carnegie Mellon University will lead the Institute for Model-based Qualification & Certification of Additive Manufacturing (IMQCAM), aiming to improve computer models of 3D printed metal parts and expand their utility in spaceflight applications. Co-led by Johns Hopkins University, the institute will develop digital twins for 3D printed parts made from spaceflight materials commonly used for 3D printing by NASA and the industry, as well as evaluate and model new materials. Space giant Redwire, a favorite for space 3D printingLike Axiom, Redwire (NYSE: RDW) has landed many NASA contracts. Lately, the mega aerospace corporation won an agency deal to advance new in-space manufacturing capabilities for journeys to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Thanks to a $5.9 million contract, the firm will complete the design of its new in-space manufacturing system called FabLab. It is expected to be tested onboard the ISS and serve as a precursor for Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The multi-material 3D printer will allow NASA crews in deep space to manufacture tools and components on demand using materials such as metal, plastic, ceramics, and electronics, enabling a sustainable human presence in orbit. In addition, last January, NASA astronauts successfully installed Redwire’s upgraded 3D BioFabrication Facility (BFF), which allows greater temperature control when printing with bioinks that are sensitive to temperatures, as well as Redwire’s Advanced Space Experiment Processor (ADSEP), used in conjunction with BFF. The microgravity bioprinter will be used to produce a fully 3D-printed human knee meniscus with the BFF-Meniscus-2 investigation, which will explore how space bioprinting could help treat meniscal injuries affecting U.S. military service members. In the future, BFF could fabricate organs that might one day be used to help patients on Earth. A new grasp on spaceMore ISS National Lab-sponsored payloads launched aboard SpaceX’s 27th contracted commercial resupply services mission (CRS-27), including research on cardiac tissue chips, protein crystals, and materials for cost-effective satellites. An experiment from L3Harris (which will soon become the parent company to Aerojet Rocketdyne) aims to study how 3D printed satellite components hold up in the harsh environment of space. Through this project, L3Harris seeks to test 3D printed radio frequency (RF) circuits, RF communications systems, and other materials for developing smaller, more cost-effective satellites. The uncrewed Dragon spacecraft, which arrived at the ISS on March 14, 2023, also delivered 3D heart cells and tissue. Better known as the Cardinal Heart 2.0, this experiment builds on results from a previous investigation conducted aboard the space station, which showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure can cause significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression. Using heart organoids, 3D structures made up of all the different types of cells will test whether clinically approved drugs reduce microgravity-induced changes in heart cell function. Results could support the development of effective drug combinations to improve the health of astronauts and patients on Earth. In addition, the Engineered Heart Tissues-2 study continues work with 3D cultured cardiac muscle tissue to assess human cardiac function in microgravity. Reimagining space explorationIn other purely commercial space news, Optisys, known for its 3D printed RF (radio frequency) antennas and components, has just announced that its product reached the lunar orbit. This milestone was achieved due to Optisys’ unique low SWaP (size, Weight, and Power) and high-performance capability.
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3D Printing´s Tip of the Iceberg Problem, Part 1 https://ift.tt/eGl298o We’ve got a rather peculiar problem in Additive. I call this the tip of the iceberg problem and it stems from seven distinct factors. The high degree of strategic replication in Additive, a lack of disclosure in settings, procedures and skills; the NDA-ification of explorative work, Universities who are more interested in IP than sharing knowledge, government work, successful things being kept secret and niche things being much more prevalent than industry actors could possibly think. The Iceberg inhibits our understanding of the state of Additive. It creates information asymmetries in our industry. Furthermore it also limits our ability to grow. Through a lack of holistic understanding software companies don’t build the right tools, materials firms don’t develop the right materials and entrepreneurs don’t build the right startups. Even OEMs who are well connected often lack certain key facts in valuable applications which means that machines are often not made in an optimal way. A lack of coordination often makes this problem worse Overall the allocation of capital, attention and effort could be vastly improved. The ProblemThe crux of it is that as a collective we can only see the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of parts made, progress made and very profitable applications is being kept from the whole. We are not one market with a lot of shared information but we obsess over every morsel which then becomes sacrament. We focus so much on orthopedics, jigs and fixtures and shoes because those are things we can talk about. These things then get mentioned and discussed by all before they are institutionalized. The morsel is the sacrament and new machines, materials and ideas are focused on that, not what really matters. I’m not saying that orthopedics isn’t a great market but there is so much more out there that people are not talking about. It often takes us years to mention sensors, antenna, batteries and more. I’m not trying to complain here, I understand that proprietary knowledge is often necessary and how it can lead to profit as well. I also understand that secrets are necessary for other reasons as well. But, I need to point this problem out because it is leading to misunderstandings and missed opportunities. I also don’t know how we can ameliorate this issue. But, I do know we have to be cognizant of it in order to flourish. Rather fittingly it was maddeningly difficult to write this article because just so many of the applications, procedures and knowledge that is behind closed doors prevented me from explaining this well. The main thing to illustrate my point is that I couldn’t really illustrate this article with colorful examples because it is this things that are secret. Hence the pictures of the icebergs. Hell, hence the iceberg metaphor too. Strategic ReplicationI’ll talk about this more elsewhere but thanks to a friend I´ve really been able to realize just how many people in additive are focusing on the same few applications. Just how myopic we are in the way we do business development. We are all doing more or less the same machines, materials and ways of finding applications. We’re also seeing the same things and a choir erupts amplifying the same reverberations. We’re like an echo reinforcing itself through infinity. In this case this is both an end result of our Iceberg Problem and a contributing cause at the same. A narrow focus on the same companies, customers, materials, business cases, go to markets and the like means that we are compounding our misunderstanding. A false note is sung by all and echoes into the ears of new arrivals. A lack of disclosure in settings, procedures and skillsIf Tim is the only one that understands the machine he could spend his days falling behind on doing what his bosses want: production. Instead he could train his coworkers, document his actions, teach and in so doing make himself dispensable. He could invest his time in making it so that he could be fired. We can all understand why he does not. Why it serves him is obvious and we can understand his actions. The more mystical and magical the machine, skill, procedure, settings or software the higher the employability of the magician and the higher his fees. I´ve often run around big companies and realized, ¨if Paula leaves, we’re all screwed.¨ Whole companies also believe that their particular way of doing something is the key to their success. Sometimes it may be. Sometimes a design methodology or procedure is unique and gives them an advantage. Often things would just be better for everyone if we shared more information. In the Iceberg Problem the desire to be mysterious, the desire to have magic means that there is a lot of fog, misunderstanding and inefficiency. The NDA-ification of Explorative WorkA young startup, idea heavy, optimistic and full of energy gets approached by a giant firm on a super exciting project. Both sides work hard but ultimately it doesn’t come to market. These kinds of Hail Mary Proof of Concept explorations fail much more often than people realize. Subsequently the startups knowledge gleaned in making extrusion nozzles for ice cream production is forever lost. Kept behind contracts and a fear of the large company. The same goes with a lot of work done under reflexive NDA´s that are often nosensical. I understand the need to want to keep things secret and the need to not want to let critical information seep out of a company. But, we need to know that ice cream nozzles may be amazing but only one firm has really tried it and it only failed because Gary in corporate hated the idea. ConclusionWe can see so far that secrecy and a tendency to approach the market in the same way really limit our understanding of additive. In the next installment we will look into more elements of the Ice Berg Problem. Images by Ravas51, Ravas51 and Ravas51. The post 3D Printing´s Tip of the Iceberg Problem, Part 1 appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/j2QpJFL March 27, 2023 at 08:06AM
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Sito Studio https://ift.tt/5npuX6F Founded by Nadezhda Georgieva, a Graphic Design graduate, illustrator, and freelance artist, Sito Studio is the first atelier for hand screen printing in Bulgaria, also offering education in the sphere of serigraphy. Back in 2013, Nadezhda fell in love with the manual screen printing technique, and a year later founded Sito Studio with 10 wooden screen frames, a do-it-yourself exposure unit, and some ink. Since then, almost 9 years have passed, and Sito Studio have held over 200 workshops on screen printing, cyanotype, linocut, and ebru. More than 700 people have been trained in the serigraphy technique, some of whom then continue to be actively involved in the technology. Nadezhda has demonstrated serigraphy and cyanotype techniques to more than 1000 people during various festivals and events. Now tegistered as a cultural organisation, and having officially translated their operations in the art sector, together with different partners, Sito Studio have been involved with dozens of initiatives and exhibitions, such as Print With Me, Street Art for Home, The Magic of Cyanotype, and New Life for Old Things. For all artists who have passed their courses, they also offer the possibility of membership in the Sito Print Club, which will soon be relocated to a new place in Bulgaria. Sito Studio offer full, direct, access to the printmaking process through their facilities and courses, allowing for everyone to tangibly experience the core of the graphic technologies. With the development of their facility, and the acquisition of new, long lasting relationships with partners, they provide their audience with more valuable products and services in the field of art. Nadezhda states; “It is our ambition to extend our spectrum of craft workshops, so we can be even more successful in keeping our audience engaged — we believe this can be achieved by building stable partner relationships, direct engagement of the artists in the work process, further modernisation of the material base and investments into the growth of our in-house staff.” The studio’s mission is to nurture and preserve the desire of the artists to hand-craft their works. By doing so, they make art more accessible and strengthen the relationship between artist and audience. Nadezhda and her team strive to inform on the intricate insights and beauty of the hand-crafted art, whilst giving an insight to their audience in the differences between analogue and digital techniques. With the development of their facility thanks to the support of National Culture Fund Bulgaria, and the acquisition of new, long lasting relationships with partners, 2023 will be a very exciting year of growth for the studio. They have several exhibitions and activities already planned and funded on local level, including Sito Riso Contest, Street Art for Home Edition 2, and four color screen printing workshops. www.sito-studio.com Printing via People of Print https://ift.tt/R3TGugA March 27, 2023 at 05:23AM
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3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: March 26, 2023 https://ift.tt/QnTVIGq Get ready for a busy week that’s chock full of webinars and events, both virtual and in-person, all around the world. Let’s not waste time, read on for all the details! 3D Printing News UnpeeledOur Executive Editor Joris Peels, who’s also the Vice President of Consulting at SmarTech Analysis, offers a news livestream one to two times a week called 3D Printing News Unpeeled at 9:30 am EST. For each episode, Peels gets on LinkedIn Live and tells us, in 20 minutes or less, what he considers to be the top news stories from the 3D printing industry that week, and why they’re important. Some of the stories in his roundup are ones we’ve covered at 3DPrint.com, and some are not, but they are all equally interesting and impactful. March 27 – 30: Mentor Protégé SummitStarting tomorrow, March 27th, and going through Thursday the 30th, the Department of Defense (DoD) will present its Mentor Protégé Summit 2023, designed to help reinforce small business supply chains, and their ability to compete in the modern defense industrial base, through collaboration, education, and networking. Held in Orlando, Florida, the event supports OSBP’s goal to offer the small businesses in the DoD industrial base practical opportunities to develop, deliver, and competitively market innovation solutions.
You can register for the summit onsite. March 27 – 31: 3D Delta Week & AM for ProductionAlso beginning the 27th is the 2nd edition of 3D Delta Week (3DDW), Flemish-Dutch event week focused on additive manufacturing. The Benelux initiative, set up by Brainport Eindhoven, Flam3D, and Jakajima, is a multi-location set of activities and events, including guided tours at the AM-factory of Brainport Industries Campus, masterclasses, a high-level R&D Day, a networking dinner, and the “AM for Production” fair and conference in the Netherlands; an exciting event in its own right. This way, attendees will get a broader, more hands-on experience with AM technology in an inclusive event week, which features a tagline of “Learn, Network and Explore in 3D Manufacturing.”
March 27: ASTM AM CoE Snapshot WorkshopASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) is holding its 9th Snapshot Workshop on Monday the 27th at Penn State University, in conjunction with ASTM F42 and ISO TC 261. With a theme of “AM Adoption and Industrialization,” the workshop will feature 18 industry expert speakers, covering standardization needs in accelerating AM adoption and industrialization while incorporating recent technology developments. Each attendee participant will receive a digital Verification of Completion Certificate from ASTM AM CoE.
You can register for the workshop here. March 28 & 29: SOLIDWORKS Happy Hours in Cleveland & PittsburghSOLIDWORKS enjoyed the recent Happy Hour event at its Waltham headquarters so much that it’s decided to hold even more of them! There will be two this week, with the first at the Oak Barrel in Valley View, Ohio at 4 pm EST on Tuesday the 28th, and the second at Kingfly Spirits in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 4 pm EST on Wednesday the 29th. Attendees will hear from technical experts about the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, have the chance to speak with SOLIDWORKS experts in a general Q&A session, and mingle and network with other users, and the SOLIDWORKS tech team, while also enjoying drinks and appetizers.
Reserve your ticket now, as these events have limited space. March 28 – 29: Digital Spare Parts World 2023Digital Spare Parts World (DSPW) Europe 2023 takes place in Essen, Germany this week, March 28th through the 29th, bringing together experts from the AM value chain and leaders from major vertical industries. At this event, six parallel industry conferences—DSP Maritime, DSP Rail, DSP Energy, DSP Automotive, DSP Defence, and DSP Aviation—will be held under the same roof, focused on best practices for digital warehousing, on-demand manufacturing, and spare parts inventory management. A few AM industry companies, including Sintratec, 3YOURMIND, and Replique, are also sponsoring the event.
March 28 – 31: TERMIS-EU Chapter Meeting 2023In Manchester this week, from Tuesday the 28th through Friday the 31st, the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2023 will be held. With a focus on broadening approaches and targets for regenerative medicine, the event welcomes scientists, technical experts, and researchers from both industry and academia to talk about developments in biomaterials, biofabrication, and enabling technologies for regenerative medicine.
You can register for TERMIS-EU 2023 here. March 28: IAM3DHUB & 3Dnatives Hold ADDITIV Medical EventThis Tuesday, the IAM3DHUB and partner 3Dnatives will host ADDITIV Medical, a hybrid industry event for medical and dental 3D printing in the Spanish community. Attendees will learn from medical sector experts at a variety of panels, conferences, live demonstrations, workshops, and a showroom of AM applications and use cases. There will also be plenty of time for networking as well.
You can register for the free event here. March 28: HP’s Virtual TourAlso on Tuesday, March 28th, HP will host a live, virtual tour of its 3D Printing Labs & Demo Center. The tour, which will begin at 1 pm EST, will offer a live overview of HP’s 3D printing workflow, new application examples, and the chance to learn how HP’s 3D Professional Services can help you at any stage of the AM journey. Plus, attendees will learn how the HP Jet Fusion 54200 and 5420W work, and have the chance to get their questions answered.
You can register for the tour here. March 28: Implementing 3D Printing for ProductionAt 11 am EST on the 28th, Desktop Metal will host a webinar about “How to Implement 3D Printing for Production: Azoth3D Shares Their Experience.” Metal contract manufacturer Azoth3D delivers mass production of small complex parts in the consumer goods, medical, automotive, and defense industries, helping customers transition from MIM, machining, and investment casting to metal binder jet 3D printing. During the webinar, Azoth team members will share their experiences implementing metal 3D printing for production, and discuss topics like the process flow of a binder jet part, the benefits of metal AM over traditional manufacturing, how the process is qualified, and more.
You can register for the webinar here. March 29 – 30: TechBlick Virtual EventFrom March 29th through the 30th, TechBlick will hold its latest virtual event, “Additive Electronics in Semiconductor Packaging & PCBs.” Part of the platform’s curated virtual and onsite conference and exhibition series on flexible, hybrid, printed, wearable, textile, sustainable, stretchable, and soft electronics, this two-day conference and exhibition will be co-located with “Digital & 3D Additive Manufacturing of Electronics, Sensors, Photovoltaics, Displays.” The Additive Electronics event will focus on all additive technologies used for prototyping and manufacturing of semiconductor packaging, and numerous applications for the technologies, including EMI shielding, solder mask, on-demand PCB production, 2.5-3D circuits, etching masks, post-production repair, multi-layer interpose development, and more. The other event is about the technology and applications aspects of digital and additive manufacturing of electronics, covering 3D printing of a variety of functional materials, such as OLEDS, ceramics, conductive materials, high viscosity pastes, and more, as well as applications like antennas, photovoltaics, circuits, semiconductor packaging, photodetectors, mmWave devices, and more. March 29 – 31: MECSPE 2023Called the “international reference fair for the manufacturing industry,” MECSPE 2023 will be held in Bologna, Italy from the 29th through the 31st. The program will feature 13 synergistic halls, so that visitors can learn about all the important technological innovations in the field of industrial processes. In addition to a Mechanics Area and Subcontracting Area, there will also be an Industry 4.0 Area, which will focus on additive manufacturing, robotics and automation, the digital factory, logistics, power drive, and quality and control.
You can request a free ticket to MECSPE 2023 here. March 29: Velo3D Begins “The Proof is in the Printing” RoadshowThis Wednesday, March 29th, Velo3D kicks off its new global roadshow, “The Proof is in the Printing,” with a stop in Phoenix, Arizona at 9 am MT. The tour will build on the company’s previous roadshow series, and plans to visit eight U.S. cities, as well as stops in Europe and Asia. If you’ve ever struggled with production of high-quality metal 3D printed parts, this is a great chance to speak with the Velo3D team and figure out how to surmount your challenges, and learn how the company’s advanced technology can help scale production of complex, optimized parts with an AM-enabled global supply chain.
You can register for the Phoenix stop here. March 29: Stratasys P3 Technology for Smooth Production PartsStratasys will hold a webinar at 12 pm EST on the 29th about “Taking AM Production to the Next Level Using P3 Technology.” The webinar showcases the company’s newest technology offering: P3, or Programmable Photopolymerization, which enables smooth production parts and can achieve high throughput and excellent repeatability. Attendees will learn how P3 is different from other DLP processes, what applications are best suited for the process, and more.
You can register for the webinar here. March 29: Rapid Prototyping Materials & Processes with FormlabsAlso at 12 pm EST on March 29th, Formlabs is having a webinar on “Rapid Prototyping: Choosing the Right Process and Materials.” Attendees will learn how 3D printing enables you to cut costs and cycle time for concept models and functional prototypes, how to choose the right rapid prototyping technology and materials, and more. Plus, they’ll see real-life case studies of 3D printed prototypes through the production development process.
You can register for the webinar here. March 30: Insights into PEEK with RobozeOn Thursday, March 30th, Roboze, which was among the first companies to offer the PEEK (polyetheretherketone) superpolymer combined with an industrial 3D printing solution, will hold a webinar at 11 am EST, focused on “Super-polymers and composites for Additive Manufacturing: Insights into Roboze PEEK.” This semi-crystalline plastic belongs to the PAEK polymer family, and is one of the best performing technopolymers for extreme applications that typically require metal materials. Attendees will learn the characterization of the material, its advantages when combined with industrial 3D printing by Roboze, and more. The webinar will end with an interactive Q&A section.
You can register for the webinar here. Capacity is limited to the first 500 livestream subscribers. March 30: Industrial Policy Speeding Up ReshoringFinally, at 2 pm EST on the 30th, IMTS and AMT will jointly hold a very timely webinar, titled “Industrial Policy is Accelerating Reshoring: How You Can Benefit!” From just 10,000 jobs a year in 2010 to over 350,000 in 2022, reshoring has grown rapidly. Now, a recent and continuing surge of industrial policy, including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, is making a lot of money available for the reshoring of specific products and industries. A trio of experts will discuss these policies, and their effect on reshoring.
You can register for the webinar here. Do you have news to share about any future webinars or virtual and live events? Please let us know! The post 3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: March 26, 2023 appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/jIndeOR March 26, 2023 at 08:06AM |
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