Every factory since the start of the industrial revolution has shared one very specific trait: tooling sets the identity of the machines, and thus the factory. To create a specific part requires ...

Today, the industry has what could prove to be a better solution to the quantity conundrum: automate the office with instant ...

The manufacturing of metal components often seems like a choice between two extremes. On one side, there is the slow and ...

A new EU directive transformed the metal recycling industry in October 2011. Responding to the research carried out by the European Commission, the regulation influenced scrap metal and laid out ...

Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that's claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it does ...

Deposition of a solid material such as a particle, thin film, nanowire or nanotubes on a substrate by generating reactive species in the gaseous phase is referred to as chemical vapor deposition. When ...

Dr. Ing. Paola Caracciolo from Airbus Commercial discusses the effect of defects in Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes for aircraft parts. The application of additive manufacturing for the ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision. A new approach called cold metal fusion is changing that equation, turning ...

Anode-free lithium metal batteries, which have attracted attention as candidates for electric vehicles, drones, and ...