Dan runs a custom sign and awards shop in Lansdale. For years, he subcontracted any metal engraving — emailing files to a shop in Allentown, waiting three to five days, paying a per-piece fee plus ...

Electron Beam Melting (EBM) is a new alternative for both rapid manufacturing and prototyping metal components, with direct benefits to the aerospace industry. This technology is fast gaining ...

Prototyping: With the use of CAD and massive amounts of digital simulation software available, it can often seem superfluous to make early appearance models, or even undertake early testing of new ...

Today, manufacturing technology includes plenty of high-tech digital prototyping tools such as laser scanners and 3D printers. However, in many situations, manual methods can produce metal parts ...

Aluminum alloy cylinder head for engine or pump, showing oil channels. On the subject of rapid prototyping, 3D printing often dominates the conversation. The speed, digital flexibility, and low ...

UB biomedical engineers have acquired a rapid-prototyping machine to aid their groundbreaking efforts to manufacture living tissues and organs, and fabricate customized implants and prostheses, among ...

Greg Morris is a believer in manufacturing the unmanufacturable. His company, Morris Technologies, specializes in producing highly complex components for aerospace, medical and industrial applications ...

Warren Buffet once astutely observed that, "the poor invest in dollars, while the rich invest in time." In manufacturing, the second often supplants the dollar as the unit upon which decisions turn.