Editorials
In many important materials programs, the first useful quantity is much smaller. A research team may need enough powder to compare three or four variations of a new composition. A…
Let’s be honest: 3D printing isn’t just changing the game — it’s rewriting the entire rulebook. And then 3D printing that rulebook. In titanium. A paradigm shift in the landscape…
For a long time, additive manufacturing was sold as magic. Push a button. Print anything. Replace traditional manufacturing. That’s not how it played out. And that’s not a bad thing.…
Last year was extreme for me. The first half was a brutal conclusion to a series of poor business decisions I had made in the previous years. You could sum…
I had a conversation on LinkedIn with a leading expert in 3D printing and other manufacturing technologies from Central Europe. He is the publisher of websites and magazines about engineering,…
The years 2010–2015 were a time of grace for 3D printing, which, freed from the constraints of patents, burst into the world of new technologies with great force and sometimes…
It might sound paradoxical, but all this stems equally from poverty and greed. 3D printing has always been poor. Underfunded. Unprofitable. But it’s not that no one in the industry…
It’s not that companies in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry are doing everything wrong. Most of them are doing everything right — it’s just that the black sheep are the…
3D printing was initially designed for rapid prototyping, a field in which it quickly found success. For many years, prototypes have been primarily produced using 3D printers. Later, attempts were…
Ghost Guns — guns that aren’t traceable and potentially pose a safety risk to the public if intended for harm — have been increasingly prominent in the news. From the…
