Tensile bars, tensile bars and more tensile bars. If you are a current or aspiring aerospace AM part producer, you must be asking, “How many more tensile bars do I have to pull?” If you are bringing to market a new AM material, a new AM process or perhaps both, then chances are you have been building a ton of these simple “dog bones.”
Read MoreLet’s step back and take a brief journey through the history of AM to set the stage for how and why consistency is so important. The roots of AM are in what was then called “rapid prototyping.” The term prototyping implied one-off and not “real” production. Early AM technologies sufficed for supporting prototyping; users could live with scrapping two builds for every successful one.
Read MoreJohn met with Duann Scott, founder of Bits to Atoms: Exploring Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), to answer a few questions about TBGA’s training courses along with how people and companies can accelerate their DfAM journey.
Read MoreThe Biden Administration's new package of aid for the nation's manufacturing SMEs called Additive Manufacturing Forward aims to promote innovation and adoption of additive manufacturing (3D printing) to solve a whole host of current problems – from blocked supply chains to off-shored manufacturing jobs to simply losing out to other nations when it comes to innovations in manufacturing. Americans are feeling the effects of the small manufacturers’ failure to modernize in the form of higher prices on goods, Biden said at the launch of the program on May 6 in Ohio.
Read MoreThe Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA) is ushering in summer 2022 by welcoming Arun Ramachandran to the ADDvisor® Services team. Arun joins from Collins Aerospace where he was the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Leader of the Advanced Structures business. He brings a 15+ year career in strategy and technical program management spanning new product development, advanced manufacturing, translating global market trends to product strategy and technology roadmaps, and implementing business process transformations using advanced data analytics.
Read MoreI hope you are sitting down for this one: I have recently come to the conclusion that the people advancing and promoting additive manufacturing (AM), including me, may have been marketing it wrong and even marketing it to the wrong people.
Read MoreThe AM industry as a whole suffers from a lack of material data and established manufacturing criteria, leaving question marks about what these technologies produce or are capable of producing. In addition, the technology is quite complex, with numerous variables and process parameters that can affect the product outcome—something Coyne refers to as “turning the knobs.”
Read MoreTBGA announces the expansion of its communications offerings for customers, officially launching this week as TBGA Media. This expanded offering helps customers solidify messaging and grow their presence in the ever evolving additive and advanced manufacturing marketplace; TBGA leverages 150+ years of additive manufacturing (AM) experience and relationships to maximize the impact of customers’ media investment.
Read MoreAt the beginning of every year, we all look forward to the future and what it will hold for our industry. It is difficult to predict the future and define it with precision. As I prepare for the panel, my thoughts swirl around many topics ranging from qualification, all the way back to awareness of AM. Sometimes our AM industry faces too little or too much definition.
Read MoreThe Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA) is starting 2022 with a major win in welcoming Michael Hayes to the ADDvisor® Services team. Mike is well-known in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) community, having led the evolution of polymer AM in aerospace production for the past two decades with The Boeing Company.
Read MoreThe AM industry is special. Where else could we get away with writing articles, usually technical ones, peppered with our Spotify playlist titles? So here we go again with a TBGA spin to close out 2021.
Read MoreSupport structures have been there for us since the beginning of AM, anchoring us to a firm foundation and taking the heat when things get intense. But they also bring with them baggage that is now holding us back, blocking channels and taking up valuable time and materials. Is it time to break free?
Read MoreDuring my 17-year career in manufacturing, I’ve experienced many technology adoption journeys, giving me a front row seat to the good, the bad, and the ugly. Each of them came with their own interesting technical and business lessons, but they all had one common denominator: People. I am often asked, “Why is Additive Manufacturing (AM) not being adopted faster?”
Read MoreLike many manufactured products, multiple processes and inspections are required to make Metal Additive Manufactured (MAM) parts. Not only are these different operations necessary for the part to have the desired geometry and properties, but the order in which the different operations are performed are equally important.
Read More“Knowledge is power,” the infamous quote attributed to Sir Francis Bacon comes to mind when reflecting on Industry 4.0 and the promise of more knowledge and insights. However, while Additive Manufacturing (AM) is creating piles and piles of data, how much insight and actionable knowledge is actually available?
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