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MMX 2022: Guests from the White House and 3D Printer Manufacturers https://ift.tt/9vjb2SH America Makes is the United States’ leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM) technology and education, working to not only accelerate adoption of the technology in the country, but also to increase our manufacturing competitiveness through training, standards publication, projects, and more. The organization, which was the first of the Manufacturing USA Advanced Manufacturing Institutes, opened its doors in Youngstown, Ohio in 2012, and 3DPrint.com was on hand to celebrate its fifth birthday in 2017. So, of course, I made the nearly four-hour drive from my home in Dayton to help celebrate its 10th anniversary at MMX 2022, the Members Meeting and Exchange event for the more than 230 members of America Makes. In part one of my coverage of MMX 2022, I discussed the lead up to and first moments of the event. The day continued with exciting guests and panels. This included Dr. Susan Helper, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and the Senior Economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisors, who provided an overview of the manufacturing priorities for the U.S. White House Senior Economist Susan HelperDr. Helper explained that the U.S. has “failed to make important investments” over the last several decades, which has resulted in supply chain issues and unequal economic growth, and this was really on display during the pandemic. But, Dr. Helper said that additive manufacturing can play an important role in not repeating our past mistakes, and that the first strategy is redundancy and eliminating inventory, which, while at times unavoidable, is expensive.
As we all know, with AM, parts can be printed and delivered much more quickly, and it’s definitely easier to store designs and files than physical objects. Additionally, long lead times for technologies like casting and forging are majorly reduced, and companies and the government won’t be as dependent on this kind of labor-intensive machining either. At Case Western, Dr. Helper was on the team that wrote the initial grant that brought America Makes to life, and she said that the institute is “at the forefront of some of these developments.”
Dr. Helper noted that AM Forward, which supports adoption of this “critical technology,” would not have happened without America Makes. She explained that the initiative builds on a lot of the work the institute has done to get metal 3D printers up and running with suppliers, and that through AM Forward, “we are going to ensure that small manufacturers can access financing so they can get these machines,” as well as qualify machines and materials, and offer workforce development and training. She also announced the two newest members of AM Forward, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, which agreed as part of the initiative to make a public commitment to help suppliers by including them in RFPs and helping them find financing. 3D Printer Manufacturers and MoreThe first panel of the day was on “Building and Scaling Additive Manufacturing Supply Chains,” moderated by Kimberly Gibson, Additive Manufacturing Ecosystem Director at America Makes, and welcoming panelists Rick Lucas, the CTO of ExOne; Jeff Hemenway, Senior Vice President, Global Industrial Sales, for Stratasys; Samantha Snabes, Co-founder: Catalyst, re3d; and Greg Hayes, Senior Vice President Applied Technology at EOS. Gibson got things started by asking how we as an industry can work on “unsticking” the fear of additive manufacturing, and Lucas said that the risk in the minds of potential adopters needs to be addressed. He said that some customers are “willing to take a small bite, but not the full apple,” so addressing their fears little by little helps get them comfortable. According to Hemenway, the three primary issues here are “awareness of the value and capabilities and limitations,” followed by high costs, and then workforce.
Snabes explained that re3d is passionate about making its technologies seem more approachable, and thinks a lot about the language it’s using, noting that people can often remember stories better than the names of specific machines. Hayes said that we all need to acknowledge that we’re still in an emerging technology, as manufacturers in America are still using more traditional methods, and that we won’t see the tipping point until “we start solving their problems.” He noted that EOS is proud to offer online learning, but that in a perfect world, middle schools and trade schools and universities would already have the necessary AM fundamentals to offer this. Gibson asked what their customers are saying they need in order to scale AM technology for use in their businesses. Hayes said that we’ll “hit a dead end” if we look at AM as a substitution, and that “you have to think about your business case differently, and your end product, in order to justify how to make that product differently.” Lucas noted that the answer typically depends on the customer and the industry, but that the biggest demand now is consistency and repeatability from machine to machine, location to location, as well as more learning on what the technology is really capable of doing. Hemenway agreed that it can really depend on the application and industry, noting that there are really interesting things happening with the technology in everything from textiles to healthcare and aerospace. But, he said that especially with those kinds of exacting industries, parts and serial numbers are what’s getting qualified, and that this needs to change, because “it doesn’t scale.”
Lucas said you need to find the champions willing to take the risk, who are often colleagues of others in the space, like Humtown Products. The risk-takers have had the most success because they believe in it the most. Gibson also asked what kind of incentive structure would allow this to move more quickly. Hemenway stated that we need a way to ensure continuous engagement with companies that acquire 3D printers to see if they’re actually using them, and Hayes said that it’s more playing matchmaker than just financial issues, and that “America Makes and AM Forward can help.”
Before breaking for lunch, Gibson addressed the room, reminding us that we must collaborate in order to relentlessly pursue the goals outlined on the stage. In the next article in this series, I cover one collaborative effort led by the U.S. Air Force, the Pacer Edge program, in which GE Aerospace is developing the protocols necessary to 3D print aerospace parts that typically have long lead times. The post MMX 2022: Guests from the White House and 3D Printer Manufacturers 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/ofEtVW0 August 29, 2022 at 08:07AM
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3DPOD Episode 118: Intelligent Large Format 3D Printing with Daghan Cam Ai Build Founder and CEO8/29/2022 3DPOD Episode 118: Intelligent Large Format 3D Printing with Daghan Cam, Ai Build Founder and CEO https://ift.tt/BtUvP85 When Daghan Cam founded AI Build, the firm’s technology was a made up of a single 3D printer attached to a robotic arm for large scale polymer parts. The team did an about face and now focuses on developing the software that controls robotic arm 3D printers, including polymer, composites, concrete and metal. Makers of wire arc additive manufacturing, extrusion, and construction systems are all talking to AI Build now to create their software. With a recent injection of $3.2 million in funding, AI Build is a very exciting company and Daghan tells us its story so far. The post 3DPOD Episode 118: Intelligent Large Format 3D Printing with Daghan Cam, Ai Build Founder and CEO 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/ofEtVW0 August 29, 2022 at 07:09AM
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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: August 28, 2022 https://ift.tt/QMfdsBc For this week’s roundup, Stratasys and Markforged continue their tours, and the Ceramics Expo starts tomorrow in Cleveland. Allevi will be holding a webinar about bioprinting a pancreatic tumor, 3D Systems will discuss additive manufacturing for satellites, Nanoscribe will have a webinar about microneedles, and more. Read on for all the details! August 29 – 31: Ceramics ExpoFirst up, Ceramics Expo returns to Cleveland from August 30-31, but this year, it’s co-located with the first Thermal Management Expo in the Huntington Convention Center. With over 200 exhibitors from across the advanced ceramics and glass manufacturing supply chain, the conference program has been crafted to help attendees address the key challenges in the advanced ceramics industry, such as understanding the impact of business growth on material and manufacturing development capabilities, examining the development of the ceramics market in the coming years, solving logistics of converting to lower energy intensive processing techniques for more sustainable operations, and more.
You can register for the expo here. August 29 – September 2: 3D Printing News UnpeeledOur Executive Editor Joris Peels, who’s also the Vice President of Consulting at SmarTech Analysis, launched a daily news livestream called 3D Printing News Unpeeled. Each weekday at 9:30 am EST, Peels gets on LinkedIn Live and tells us, in 20 minutes or less, what he considers to be the top 5 most exciting news stories from the 3D printing industry that day, 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 interesting and impactful in their own ways. The next 3D Printing News Unpeeled livestream will be this Monday, August 29th, at 9:30 am EST, and will continue the rest of the week at the same time. You don’t want to miss it! August 29: The Experience Stratasys Tour ContinuesThe Experience Stratasys Tour continues in New York this week. The truck will be coming to the CADimensions office in Syracuse on Monday, August 29th.
You can register for the Stratasys Experience Tour here. Stay tuned for more dates and locations in the future! August 30: Bioprinted Pancreatic Tumor with AlleviAllevi by 3D Systems is holding the company’s first webinar this week, “Bioprinted Pancreatic Tumor: Next Generation Tool for Anti-Cancer Assessment,” at 11 am EST on Tuesday the 30th. In this User Spotlight webinar, Shreyas Gaikwad, PhD Candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will be the speaker, and cover topics including a pancreatic tumor microenvironment, bioink considerations, and characterization parameters, such as tumor stiffness, irradiation therapy, protein expression changes, cell viability and proliferation, and more.
You can register for the webinar here. August 30: Metafold’s LightCycle DfAM PlatformAlso at 11 am EST on the 30th, Metafold—a spinoff of MESH Consultants that specializes in large-scale 3D printed lattice structures—is holding a webinar on “LightCycle: DfAM for High Complexity Geometry.” This webinar marks the beginning of the beta trial for the company’s cloud-based LightCycle DfAM software platform. Attendees will learn how LightCycle can accelerate their 3D printing workflows.
You can register for the webinar here. August 30: Fast, Large-Scale 3D Printing with MassivitThe Massivit 5000, which uses the company’s unique Gel Dispensing Printing (GDP) technology, was designed to respond to the needs of the automotive, marine, and rail sectors, and helps service bureaus and manufacturers streamline their workflows and speed up lead times. You can learn more about the printer in a webinar at 12 pm EST on the 30th, “Large-Scale 3D Printing at Unprecedented Speed.” Massivit’s systems include large-volume, robust hardware for fast 3D printing of full-scale prototypes, parts, and molds, as well as user-friendly software, advanced slicing algorithms, and a range of high-performance photopolymer materials.
You can register for the webinar here. August 31 & September 2: Forged Tour Part DeuxThe global Forged Tour Part Deux tour, featuring the Digital Forge, pints, and snacks, continues this week in the US. On Wednesday, August 31st, GSC and Markforged will take the tour to Ellison Technologies in Plymouth, Minnesota, at 10 am CDT (11 am EST), and also to Mad Anthony Brewing Co in Fort Wayne, Indiana with Integrated Machinery Systems at 4 pm EST.
Stay tuned for more dates and locations in the future! August 31: 3D Systems & AM for Satellites3D Systems will hold its second webinar of the week, “Additive Manufacturing for Satellites: Advances in Passive RF and Lightweight Structure,” at 11 am EST on the 31st, sponsored by Microwave Journal. The goal of the webinar is to help organizations step back, evaluate their functional requirements, and build a realistic roadmap from smaller (individual flight parts) to bigger AM successes a secured supply chain which delivers system-level improvements). Together with 3D Systems AIG speakers Koen Huybrechts, Manager, Aerospace Application Development, in Belgium, and Joe Dopkowski, Senior Applications Engineer, Colorado, attendees will learn how major OEMs, research institutes, and suppliers have designed and proven lightweight structure and passive radio frequency (RF) components for ground and space with AM.
You can register for the webinar here. September 1: 3DHEALS on India’s Healthcare 3D Printing EcosystemOn Thursday, September 1st, at 11 am EST, 3DHEALS will host a Zoom session on the “Healthcare 3D Printing Ecosystem: India,” moderated by Firoza Kothari, Co-Founder and CTO of Anatomiz3D. The speakers will be Dr. Mahesh Kappanayil, a Professor of Pediatric Cardiology and Founder of the 3D Printing, Virtual Reality and Innovation Laboratory at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Kochi, Kerala, India; Piyush Padmanabhan, CEO and Co-Founder of Next Big Innovation Labs; Mahesh Dhoka, Director of 3D Incredible; Yearla Srinivasa Rao, COO, Medoja Health Private Limited; and Dr. Jatin Kakrani, Co-Founder of Smiles.ai.
You can register for the webinar here. September 1: 3D Printing Microneedles for Medical ApplicationsFinally, also at 11 am EST on the 1st, Nanoscribe will be holding a free webinar and demonstration on “Microneedles for medical applications – Rapid prototyping, direct 3D printing, series production and use cases.” Moderated by Dr. Remmi Baker-Sediako, Life Sciences Business Development Manager at Nanoscribe, the webinar will focus on using Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP) 3D printing to fabricate highly precise, minimally invasive microneedles. Dr. Benjamin Richter, a physicist and Application Manager at Nanoscribe, will offer an introduction into the basics, principles, and capabilities of 2PP, as well as a live demonstration of 3D printing microneedles on the Quantum X bio. Then, Professor Ryan Donnelly, Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology at Queen’s University Belfast, will present on the potential of microneedle arrays for transdermal drug delivery, as well as other novel medical applications, like scar-reduction structures, biosensors, pain patches, and more.
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3D Printing News Briefs, August 27, 2022: Research, Partially 3D Printed Engines, & More https://ift.tt/1Q8yYML The Additive Manufacturing Coalition has announced its newest member; this is what we’re starting off with in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Moving on, orders for GE Aerospace’s partially 3D printed engines are high. In research, a multi-university team is working on synchronous multi-robot additive manufacturing, and researchers from Colorado State University are 3D printing carbon fiber composites in a short amount of time, but with minimal heat. Finally, researchers from Singapore and China came up with an approach to incorporate alternative proteins, like crickets, into food inks. SLM Solutions Joins Additive Manufacturing CoalitionThe Additive Manufacturing Coalition, the national nonprofit recognized as the voice for AM with decision-makers and stakeholders, announced that SLM Solutions is its newest Member. With its US headquarters in Michigan, SLM Solutions invented the selective laser melting (SLM) process, and provides its integrated, multi-laser, metal AM solutions to customers around the world in major industries, including automotive, aerospace, aviation, energy, defense, and health sciences. The company is focused on developing and distributing the most production-oriented metal 3D printing systems, with a global install base of about 750, and will help to drive the federal government’s vision for additive manufacturing.
Orders Spike for Partially 3D Printed Engines by GE AerospaceGE Aerospace, formerly GE Aviation, reports that the demand and number of orders for its partially 3D printed engines has spiked, helping to boost its revenues by 27% last quarter. This GE division uses AM to produce its fuel nozzles, which are said to improve fuel consumption by 15%, and 3D prints other components that support the overall product. GE has seen growth in its aerospace and aviation division, particularly with its engine hardware and services, and this growth was partially supported by a deal with Boeing, which will have GE engines used on the 737-10 in Delta and Qatar Airways aircraft. In its recent financial reports, GE indicates that 3D printing product advancements could continue to drive further revenue growth; for instance, its partially 3D printed Avio Aero Catalyst engine will be used in the Airbus Eurodrone surveillance vehicle. Last year, GE Aerospace made the switch from casting to metal 3D printing for four turbine parts, and its Singapore MRO facility is the first to be approved to use metal additive manufacturing for commercial jet engine component repairs. Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive ManufacturingA collaborative team of researchers from Texas A&M University (TAMU), University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), and University of Arkansas developed a unique approach for collaborative 3D printing robots (synchronous multi-robot AM). Their method is outlined in a published paper, titled “LayerLock: Layer-Wise Collision-Free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes,” and is based on a class of topologically interlocked shapes called Delaunay Lofts. These shapes come about by, as they explained, “stacking layers of Voronoi partitions of a set of moving Voronoi sites based on wallpaper symmetries.” The team developed an algorithm for volume-partitioning, cell sequencing, and path planning for a two-robot AM system, which is then numerically evaluated for parameters like cell resolution and part orientation. They demonstrated their approach by using the two-robot system to 3D print topologically interlocked space-filling structures.
3D Printing Free-Form Carbon Fiber-Reinforced MaterialsResearch out of the University of Colorado‘s mechanical engineering department is focused on freeform 3D printing of carbon fiber-reinforced material—specifically thermoset polymer composites. The material is lightweight but strong, and the researchers are said to be among the first in the world to complete this type of composite 3D printing, where the material hardens on its own as it unfolds on a heated surface, without the use of a mold or support structure. The technique combines both freeform and layer-by-layer 3D printing strategies, without the need for a post-curing step. Together with two graduate students, Mostafa Yourdkhani, assistant mechanical engineering professor in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, published a paper on the work, which details the 3D printing of carbon fiber composites with minimal heat in a very short amount of time. This could result in a reduction time, energy, and cost for producing this kind of complex structure.
3D Printing Food Inks with Alternative ProteinsFinally, while people in some parts of the world are more used to consuming alternative protein sources, like algae, insects, and plants, it’s an uncomfortable thought for many. But as the population continues to grow, so too is the demand for protein-rich food, which is raising concerns about increased land and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gases. A team of researchers from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Nanyang Technological University, and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital are working together to make the idea of alternative proteins, such as crickets, more palatable by mixing them with common foods, like carrots, to create an extrudable ink for 3D printing appealing shapes and textures. This type of work is typically done using trial and error, but this team developed a systematic engineering approach—based on established Response Surface Methodology—that can more efficiently incorporate alternative proteins into food inks. In their study, they explain how they used the central composite design approach to optimize the different formulations, and experimented with proteins like soy, sericin, cricket, and black soldier fly larvae.
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4 Ways to Make Pop-ups Less Annoying And More Effective https://ift.tt/FgLXGrx Poor pop-ups. Everybody calls them annoying, bad and spammy. But they don’t have to be. Pop-ups don’t have to be bad. They are actually a list-builder’s secret weapon. But when they’re used the wrong way, pop-ups can get pretty annoying. Yours don’t have to be. Pop-ups (also called “pop-overs” or “interstitials”) work so well that even if you tone them down a bit, they work better than almost any other list-building tactic. 30-100% Increase in opt-insYou can realistically expect that adding a pop-up will increase your opt-in rate by 30-100%. That not hype: That’s normal. There are reports of pop-ups increasing opt-in rates by 1000% or more, but those are unusually good results. Let’s stick with what you can realistically expect. You, right now – today – can get 30-100% more email subscribers if you add a pop-up to your site. This is especially easy for you to do, because GetResponse gives you a way to shift any opt-in box into a pop-up (or lightbox) with just a few clicks. You don’t need to install any plugins or to spend any money. You’ve already got everything you need. How to create a pop-up in your GetResponse accountRead this detailed guide on creating a popup in 5 easy steps. To do this, log into your account, and go to “Forms and popups” in the top navigation bar. Find the popup template and click “use template.” There, you’ll be able to edit your popup’s design, and in the display rules settings, you’ll be able to choose how your popup will be displayed to your visitors. Pro tip: Personally, I like lightboxes, i.e., popups with a dimmed overlay, because they make a visitor focus more on the opt-in form, but you should test if that works best for you. The real reason people don’t use pop-upsSo now you know how easy it is to create a pop-up in your GetResponse account. Know what, though? I bet a lot of you already knew that. And I bet you already knew pop-ups work. I bet a bunch of you don’t care. You don’t care because you already know pop-ups work, but you think your visitors will hate you if you use them. You’re just not willing to sell out like that – you’re not going to have your site be one of those spammy, pushy sites everybody hates. Fair enough. I have good news for you. Pop-ups don’t have to be annoying. You can have a pop-up, and still keep your website visitors happy. Here’s how: 1. Delay the pop-upLet’s start with the most annoying aspect of pop-ups first: They come up right as you land on the page, clamoring for you to enter your email address to get some report that’s way too much like every other free report you’ve seen. You don’t want this report. You just landed on this site, and you don’t even know if you like this place yet. You definitely aren’t ready to just hand over your email address… because if they’re this pushy now, what will they be like in your inbox? Solution: Delay the pop-up so it doesn’t show when people first land on the page. This is really easy in your GetResponse account. There’s a setting to do it inside the editor: I recommend you set this to the maximum, so it shows 20 seconds after people have been on your site. With that one setting, you’ve swept away much of the annoyance factor with your pop-up. Pretty simple, eh? If that’s still too invasive for you, I’ve got another trick for you. 2.Don’t show the pop-up on every pageDon’t you hate when every page you go to on a site results in a pop-up? You’re not alone. Showing pop-ups more than once per visit is probably the second best way to annoy your visitors, right after showing the pop-up immediately. And again, there is a solution. If you’re still in your GetResponse account, looking at the web form editor, you’ve probably noticed the “Frequency” and “Timing” settings. That’s where you can control how many days pass between when your subscribers see your pop-up. Changing this to 3, 7, 14 or even 30, 60 or 90 days will show your pop-up only that often. So changing this setting to 7 means your visitors will see this pop-up once every 7 days. I don’t know about you, but when something happens every minute or so, it’s FAR more annoying than when it happens only once a week. Setting your pop-ups to show every few days means you’ve once again made them far less annoying than those other bad, pushy pop-ups no one likes. 3. Don’t use a pop-up at allIf you still can’t abide by pop-ups, even if they only show only once a week, there is another alternative: A scroll-triggered box (sometimes called slide-in popup). Usually, people scroll down a page as they read, so to have an opt-in box appear after someone has scrolled down 60, 70 or 80% of a page usually means it will show after someone has had a chance to read, watch or see some of the content on the page. That usually means they’re interested in the content. And if they’re interested in the content, they might be interested in signing up for your list. And again, you can use GetResponse Forms and Popups Creator to build this scroll-triggered box. Just head over to the trigger settings, and choose “After scrolling”: And here’s a popup template that’d work great for this: This type of popup shows the opt-in box in the bottom right-hand corner of pages (you can adjust that, too), which is much less invasive than showing it in the middle of the screen. I’ve had excellent results using this plugin on websites where the client just could not accept a pop-up but realized they needed something more active than the standard static opt-in box. You could actually use the scroll box to promote anything –you could add a Facebook like box, a video… whatever you want. You can also control where the slider shows – say, when people are 60% down the page, or 80% down the page. 4. Don’t offer weak contentThe last big reason pop-ups are annoying is that they’re usually not worth the interruption they cause. They’re “just ads”. You want your pop-ups to offer something that’s perceived as far more valuable than that. Offer content that’s worth the interruption. A pop-up that offers the same boring generic diet report that’s on a thousand other sites is always somewhat annoying, even if it is shown at a delay and only once per visit. But (for example) a week’s shopping list for a diet targeted perfectly for your ideal audience, that only costs $15 per day – that might be interesting enough to be worth the interruption. And that’s what would make it less annoying. This article was last updated in August 2022. 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How to Create a Popup That Converts (in 5 Easy Steps) https://ift.tt/Ko4wCA3 Want to capture more email subscribers on your website? Maybe you want to promote your upcoming webinar? Or perhaps you’d like to offer a special discount to your online store shoppers? If you’re trying to achieve any of these goals, it sounds like you need popups. Popups are essential in marketing, despite their reputation. The average conversion rate for a popup is around 3%. But if you’re willing to put in a little work, you can target your audience with laser-focus precision, achieving conversion rates above 5% or even 10%. Popups are also very easy to create and manage. Once you’ve installed a line of code on your website, you fully control how and where your popup window is displayed (and don’t worry, you don’t have to write that line of code, we’ll handle that part!). Want to adjust your popup or the offer quickly? You can do that, all by yourself, without having to chat to your developer. Sound promising? Great! In this article, I’ll show you how to create a popup that converts in five easy-to-follow steps. All of it shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes of your time. Let’s go! If you’re looking for inspiration, you’ll benefit from reading this post listing some of the best popup form examples we’ve seen on the web. How to create a popup form in 5 easy steps
Looking for a visual guide on how to create a popup in minutes? Click here to watch our video tutorial and get creating! If you’re a marketer like me, you probably value efficiency. That’s why before you begin creating popups, I suggest that you start by finding a reliable popup builder that’ll help you run your campaigns efficiently. While it’s possible to code your popup forms using HTML and CSS, I wouldn’t advise that you go down this path unless you’re very technical. These days, popup form builders come with a variety of helpful features that’d be hard to implement if you were to do it yourself. Plus, many of them, including the GetResponse Popup Creator, are completely free to use. Inside most popup form creators, you’ll find:
Naturally, the above capabilities will vary between different popup form builders. You’ll want to review which tool will work for your specific use case and offer the best value for your budget. You’ll also want to ensure your popup form creator integrates with the other tools you already use for your marketing campaigns, like your CRM or email newsletter software. For example, the already mentioned GetResponse Free Popup Creator integrates directly with the rest of our marketing tools and other top marketing software available on the market. Of course, there are other great tools on the market. If you’d like to shop around, we recently reviewed the most popular popup software tools. These reviews will hopefully help you save time and money when picking the best tool for your needs. Step 2. Define your goalOnce you’ve chosen your popup builder, it’s time to define the goal you want to achieve with the popup. This will help you choose the right popup form template for your needs. Popups typically help achieve the following goals:
If you want to collect signups for your email marketing list, you’ll want to use a popup form that includes the input fields, such as name and email address. If you’re promoting an offer, it’s enough to have a popup window with an image, text, and a call to action (CTA) button leading to your sales page. And if you’re looking to use popups to save abandoned carts, you’ll want to use a popup that can present a special discount code and a CTA. Your goal should also help you determine when your popup should be displayed. As you’ll learn in step four, there are various targeting options you can use to make your popup forms most efficient. Pro tip: It might be tempting to use popups to collect as much information about your visitors as possible. But consider the fact that each additional input field is likely going to decrease your popup’s conversion rate. In our recent Email Marketing Benchmarks report, we found that forms with more than four input fields result in significantly smaller conversion rates. After defining your goal, it’s time to choose your popup template and add your content. Most popup builders offer a variety of templates, so feel free to spend a few minutes browsing through them. Keep in mind that you’ll be able to customize the template fully (using a drag-and-drop editor), so don’t worry if the template you choose doesn’t match your branding right away. Once you’ve selected the template, it’s time to edit it and add your content. Most popups include:
Some popup forms also include social proof and trust symbols (such as badges or logos of companies you’ve worked with) or elements increasing the sense of urgency (like a countdown timer) As for popup design, you’ll want to keep the following best practices in mind:
To learn more about this, you may want to read our post on How to Craft the Perfect Newsletter Signup Forms. Pro tip: If design isn’t your strong suit, simply go with a template and customize its content. Typically, popup form templates are designed by professional designers and UX experts, who’ve been doing this for years. Step 4. Choose how and to whom your popup will be shownWhen I said that popup builders are efficient, I didn’t just mean that they come with prebuilt templates. The true power of popup builders is in the display and targeting capabilities they offer. Most popup builders offer several types of popups:
In addition, you’ll often find bar popups that resemble a bar more than a typical popup window and stay fixed to the top or bottom of the page. As you can probably tell from the descriptions, these popups take into consideration the different forms of user engagement. Because of this, you’ll notice that entry popups show up more often than time-delayed popups, but at the same time, their conversion rate is typically smaller. You can further narrow down who’ll see your popups by specifying:
As you can see, there are many ways you can target your popups. It may be even a bit overwhelming at first. That’s why my best advice is to start small. Consider the goal you chose in step two and move from there. If your offer’s relevant to everyone who visits your website, you can show the popup to everyone. Ideally, you’ll give your visitors enough time to access the content they came for and only then show them your popup. Pro tip: While the design and targeting of your popups will have a major impact on your campaigns’ success, the offer you present is likely the most important element of the puzzle. To ensure your popups convert, you’ll want to offer them something of real value, for which they’d be willing to leave their contact details. This study shows what types of content (aka lead magnets) work for marketers like yourself. Step 5. Preview and publishBefore your new popup goes live, it’s time to do the final checks. In your popup builder, preview your popup form and see how it looks when displayed on desktop and mobile devices. If it looks OK, click save and head over to the installation step. Most popup builders will generate a piece of Javascript code you’ll then need to install on your website. Here’s the best way to do this:
We cover the first option in this video tutorial. Alternatively, you can ask your developer or tech team to do this part for you. This is a very easy step and you’ll only need to do it once, as long as the code’s present throughout your website. Pro tip: Remember that you can always optimize your popups after you hit publish. You can refine your message, design, and targeting to ensure your popups reach the most-promising audience. Start building your first popup todayHopefully, you’ve found this article helpful and are ready to create and launch your first popup form. As you learned today, the process is fairly simple, and the only technical part is the installation bit. Since we’ve covered it in our detailed walkthrough, there should be nothing stopping you from building your email list or promoting your offers using popups. So go ahead and create a popup using the tool you’ve selected in step one, and if it happens to be the GetResponse Free Popup Creator – we’d be happy to support you and your business! Printing via GetResponse Blog https://ift.tt/euSv3QJ August 26, 2022 at 09:54AM
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3D Printing News Unpeeled, With GE, GoEngineer, Hyliion, the US Air Force and Bentley https://ift.tt/Joysul9 GE sells Hydrogen Fuel Assets to Hyliion, a Bangalore Post Office is to be 3D Printed, GoEngineer Buys CATI, US Air Force opens print center, Bentley Mulliner’s new Batur to offer customized gold and titanium parts.
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MMX 2022: Celebrating 10 Years of America Makes & 3D Printing in Ohio https://ift.tt/bHfctuM America Makes is the United States’ leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM) technology and education, working to not only accelerate adoption of the technology in the country, but also to increase our manufacturing competitiveness through training, standards publication, projects, and more. The organization, which was the first of the Manufacturing USA Advanced Manufacturing Institutes, opened its doors in Youngstown, Ohio in 2012, and 3DPrint.com was on hand to celebrate its fifth birthday in 2017. So, of course, I made the nearly four-hour drive from my home in Dayton to help celebrate its 10th anniversary at MMX 2022, the Members Meeting and Exchange event for the more than 230 members of America Makes. Touring the Youngstown Business IncubatorThe event kicked off with a local Additive Manufacturing Community Day at America Makes and its ecosystem partner, the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI). This part of Ohio was once known as the Rust Belt, but has since come to be called the Tech Belt, as more advanced manufacturing companies open shop there. Tours were given of YBI’s Tech Block Building 5 (TBB5), which offers space for early stage companies and their advanced manufacturing equipment. JuggerBot 3D, Fitz Frames, and Tailored Alloys are just some of the companies located in TBB5, which is across the parking lot from America Makes.
I spent some time checking out the Front Door to Additive exhibit at the America Makes facility, which used to be a furniture warehouse and connects via a walkway—once used to move furniture—to YBI. Last year, America Makes completed a renovation to create the exhibit space, where visitors can learn about the history of the national accelerator, as well as its current projects, and all about 3D printing, as well. At the outdoor party after the America Makes open house, we enjoyed food, drinks, and plenty of time to network before a small group of speakers came to the podium to share their thoughts on the momentous occasion. John Wilczynski, the Executive Director of America Makes, kicked things off by welcoming several people to the microphone who have helped build the America Makes community, including Barb Ewing, the CEO of YBI; Guy Coviello, the President and CEO of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber; Steven Fritsch, Vice President – Industry Advancement and Engagement for Team NEO; a representative from JobsOhio; former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel, who is currently the President of Youngstown State University; and Congressman Bill Johnson, R-Ohio.
MMX BeginsThe next day at the actual start of MMX, Wilczynski kicked things off with an America Makes State of the Union address. A couple of the announcements he made were new partnerships with the Additive Manufacturing Coalition and AMT to enhance the ecosystem, and that America Makes is actively working to evolve its Data Sharing Platform. America Makes and the DoDThe first speaker of the day was Dr. Kevin Geiss, Director of Science & Technology Futures with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), who explained that AM was very important to the Department of Defense (DoD), and that America Makes helps advance DoD strategy. He explained that, last year, Heidi Shyu, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, laid out 14 “critical and emerging technology areas,” with each area consisting of three categories: seed (nascent), like biotechnology; adoption, like microelectronics; and military-specific, such as hypersonics, which are vital to the national security strategy. Dr. Geiss says the DoD believes that additive manufacturing can address all 14 of these areas.
Dr. Geiss said there are several ways the DoD sees AM providing new capabilities, and changing the nature of how things are done. This includes modernizing weapon systems, increasing readiness, and enhancing the capabilities of the warfighter, which can all be helped by the technology’s ability to create geometries that subtractive methods cannot. Additionally, AM is helping to “bring more people to the table to innovate” and solve these problems, as 3D printing allows engineers to fabricate ideas more quickly, and the information can be easily shared. The “nature of additive” can also decrease costs and equipment downtime in order to support more agile logistics.
He stated that America Makes has been a great partner to the DoD, and that the department would not be “in a place to publish some of the documents we have the last few years,” such as the strategy that lays out the department’s additive vision, without the institute’s initial roadmap work. This strategy, which illustrates that the DoD is “leaning forward from a policy perspective” to find ways to implement these tools, lays out five goals: integrating additive manufacturing into the DoD, advancing agile use, learning, securing the AM workflow, and aligning additive activities across the department.
He noted that the DoD will continue its commitment to the institute through the ManTech program, and that America Makes will be a focus of the department in terms of President Biden’s AM Forward initiative. America Makes Features Kevin CzingerNext to take the MMX stage was Ohio native Kevin Czinger, Lead Inventor and CEO of Los Angeles-based Divergent and Czinger Vehicles, with his talk, “Everything Had To Be Invented… Everything. Building The World’s First Antifragile Industrial Base.” He first explained that the quote about inventing everything was by Lockheed Martin Skunkworks founder Kelly Johnson, one of his idols and the engineer who led the development of the SR-71 Blackbird. Czinger began by saying that issues such as long supply chains and outsourcing outside of the country are “crippling,” and that Divergent is working to create an end-to-end digital manufacturing system for the future. He explained the concept of antifragile production and antifragility, which is a property of systems that, when faced with shocks, stressors, attacks, or failures, increase in their capability to thrive, and adapt quickly to beat other systems. Antifragility is what enables product designers to quickly iterate products with little capital investment, and localized factories to iterate so their communities keep permanent manufacturing footprints. Czinger said that as an industry, we need to build resilient, antifragile systems.
Divergent is building a global network of digital manufacturing hubs that will enable a Factory-as-a-Service (FAAS) business model to drive sustainable manufacturing and product innovation for multiple industries. The company’s industrial-scale Divergent Adaptive Production System, or DAPS, will work to automate and digitalize all manufacturing elements within a modular, scalable system. The DAPS process begins by inputting digital vehicle requirements, and then using AI-enabled generative design to create the automobile. Then, it’s printed with Divergent’s own materials and goes through post-processing before V-Cell assembly. Czinger provided an example of the kind of fast iteration Divergent can offer using its generative design optimization. When the company took the Czinger 21C hypercar to track, data showed that a wider body was needed, and within three months, the car was off the track, updated, and back again.
He explained that because people care about the total blended system cost, the solution needs to be designed as a total system, which can’t be done using a commercial printer.
Czinger explained that Divergent’s digital system can achieve “aerospace accuracy at true automotive values,” and enables true fixtureless assembly of multi-component, multi-material structures, with “zero switchover time” for the universal assembly system to create different projects. Divergent develops and uses all its own materials, and builds everything for its vehicles from suspension and chassis to single part components, like brake nodes. Czinger said that using its system, the company was able to reduce the part count for this component by 80%, which results in a major efficiency gain, a smaller supply chain, and quicker design testing validation cycle. As for the future of Divergent and its DAPS antifragility solution, Czinger said that the company is actively working with more than five leading OEMs, including Aston Martin. While its vehicle structures are currently built in Los Angeles, production will be heading to Europe in the near future.
Look for Part TwoBecause the event was so jam-packed with important speakers and panels, I’ve covered MMX in multiple articles. Stay tuned for the next part in this series, in which I cover such guests as Dr. Susan Helper, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and the Senior Economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisors. The post MMX 2022: Celebrating 10 Years of America Makes & 3D Printing in Ohio 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/ct5iNUG August 26, 2022 at 09:19AM
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3DPOD Episode 117: 3D Printing Software, DfAM, and More with Duann Scott, Bits to Atoms https://ift.tt/rHucBX7 Duann Scott is an industrial-designer-turned-business-development specialist who has worked for such illustrious firms as Shapeways, Autodesk, and nTopology. In our interview with him, he talks fluidly about his vision for the 3D printing software market and what is impeding additive manufacturing (AM) from moving forward. Duann is a firm believer in design for additive, working as an educator of these skills and assisting startups through his Bits to Atoms consultancy. Come hear what he has to say about software for a 3D printed world. The post 3DPOD Episode 117: 3D Printing Software, DfAM, and More with Duann Scott, Bits to Atoms 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/ct5iNUG August 26, 2022 at 08:12AM
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NASA Student Challenge Aims at Extracting Metal, 3D Printing Infrastructure on the Moon https://ift.tt/t57HCq4 With NASA’s first Artemis Moon mission set to launch in just a few days, the space agency is gearing to send teams of people to the lunar south pole by December 2024. But pulling off this moonshot will demand new technologies to help crews survive the harsh lunar environment, which has a scant atmosphere, no protection from radiation, abrasive dust, and extreme temperatures ranging between 260 F (127 C) and -397 F (-238 C). As a result, one of the most crucial aspects to consider when designing these upcoming missions is the availability of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) so humans can survive using local resources. NASA’s BIG Idea ChallengeSeeking to advance extraction processes suitable for the microgravity conditions of the Moon, NASA is engaging universities through its annual Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. The goal of the student-led teams is to design a metal production pipeline on the Moon, including metal extraction from lunar minerals and the creation of structures and tools on site. Through this recently announced initiative, NASA hopes to advance the Artemis Program’s goal of a sustained human presence on the lunar surface. It’s been half a century since Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan set foot on the Moon for the last time. However, all that is about to change during this decade, and the stakes are high. NASA has several missions planned, including two uncrewed stages of the Artemis mission – Artemis I and Artemis II – before safely launching humans to lunar orbit on Artemis III. Through the 2023 BIG Idea Challenge, dubbed Lunar Forge Challenge, NASA invites university students to tackle some of the most critical needs facing space exploration and help create the mission capabilities that could make discoveries possible. The challenge provides undergraduate and graduate students working with faculty advisors the opportunity to design, develop, and demonstrate their technology in a project-based program for over a year and a half. Furthermore, this NASA-funded challenge provides development awards of up to $180,000 to up to eight selected teams that will have the chance to build and demonstrate their concept designs and share the results of their research and testing at a culminating forum in November 2023. Student teams participating in the BIG Idea Challenge will get to develop innovative ways to extract and convert metals from minerals found on the Moon, such as ilmenite and anorthite, to enable metal manufacturing. 3D Printing Metal on the MoonMetal is a critical resource for building structures, pipes, cables, and more, mainly due to its strength and resistance to corrosion. However, the metal materials for infrastructure are heavy, making them very expensive to transport to orbit. It may be that in recent years it has become more affordable to send objects into orbits due to the emergence of commercial launch providers like SpaceX and Blue Origin. Launching a spacecraft today is at least ten times cheaper than it was years ago. For example, based on data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a piggybacking payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch (instead of booking an entire mission) will cost $2,500 per pound to low Earth orbit (LEO). Previously, rideshare prices would be much higher. For example, during the 1960s, NASA spent $28 billion to land astronauts on the Moon, a cost today equating to about $288 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. Regardless, the costs to send the metal to space remain high. In contrast, the availability of ISRU-derived metals on the Moon would allow the infrastructure for a lunar base to be made locally using additive manufacturing (AM). A few essential infrastructure products desired are storage vessels for liquids and gases, extrusions, pipes, power cables, and supporting structures (such as roads and landing pads).
According to the NASA BIG Idea Challenge site, teams are invited to submit proposals for technologies needed along any point in the lunar metal product pipeline, including, but not limited to metal detecting, metal refining, forming materials for AM, and testing and qualifying 3D printed infrastructure for use on the Moon. The teams are expected to present a non-binding notice of intent by September 30, 2022, and four months later, a written proposal and video submissions describing how their portion of the metal product production pipeline fits into infrastructure development on the Moon. Teams should also identify what systems they assume will be in place to support their proposed concept, as well as consider incorporating mechanisms to enable efficient operation on the Moon, including lunar dust mitigation, thermal management, and realistic power considerations. Teams must have at least five and no more than 25 students and faculty from U.S.-based colleges and universities affiliated with their state’s Space Grant Consortium, a national network of colleges and universities. However, non-Space Grant-affiliated colleges and universities may partner with a Space Grant-affiliated institution as multi-university, and multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged.
NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge is one of several Artemis student challenges designed to mature innovative and high-impact capabilities and technologies for a broad array of future space missions. The post NASA Student Challenge Aims at Extracting Metal, 3D Printing Infrastructure on the Moon 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/ct5iNUG August 26, 2022 at 08:12AM |
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