We’ve obtained a busy week within the additive manufacturing trade! There are a number of occasions, each digital and in-person, in locations like Chicago, Cincinnati, and San Antonio. Plus, there are a number of webinar choices, on subjects together with AM for steel casting, powder administration, 3D printed orthopedic units, and extra. Learn on for all the small print!
February 17: TCT WI3DP Innovator Award Day
Tomorrow, February seventeenth, TCT Awards and TIPE + Girls in 3D Printing are providing a novel on-line occasion: the TCT WI3DP Innovator Award Day, devoted to celebrating the unbelievable achievements of ladies within the 3D printing trade. Hosted by TCT’s Head of Content material Laura Griffiths, this session can be broadcast reside, beginning at 9 am EST (2 pm GMT). There can be inspiring shows from the 4 earlier winners of the TCT WI3DP Innovator Award, with every particular person specializing in one of many key TIPE themes – Expertise (Wai Yee Yeong, Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological College Singapore), Business (Alba Gonzalez Alvarez, Xcure Surgical), Individuals (Eliana Fu, TRUMPF) and Economics (Brigitte de Vet, Materialise). This yr’s award finalists will then be revealed, and after a panel session with them, there can be a public vote to find out this yr’s TCT WI3DP Innovator Award winner.
“The TCT WI3DP Innovator Award Day is greater than only a celebration of particular person achievements—it’s a showcase of the transformative energy of variety and innovation inside additive manufacturing.”
You possibly can watch on the TCT Group YouTube channel and LinkedIn web page.
February seventeenth: Protolabs & Harley Davidson Manufacturing unit Racing
At 3 pm EST tomorrow, Protolabs will maintain a digital Q&A with Harley-Davidson Manufacturing unit Racing to debrief attendees on their thrilling partnership. The King of the Baggers collection is an thrilling motorbike competitors that brings collectively the world’s finest riders to race on “souped-up” Harley-Davidson Street Glide® bikes. Harley-Davidson Manufacturing unit Racing makes use of CNC machining, injection molding, and 3D printing to repeatedly evolve the bike. The audio system will share the news on the venture wants, the workforce’s iteration course of, and extra. On the finish, there can be a reside Q&A session.
“Staff Engineer and Protolabs’ Tyler Jordahl will talk about how the workforce interprets information and rider suggestions into quick-turn iteration with half designs transferring from prototyping to manufacturing in lower than every week.”
You possibly can register for the webinar right here.
February 18: AM for Steel Casting
America Makes and the Youngstown Enterprise Incubator (YBI) are providing a free touring seminar on Tuesday, February 18th, about Additive Manufacturing for Steel Casting. A part of the Final Tactical Mile Seminar Sequence, this can be held on the Vulcan Park & Museum in Birmingham, Alabama beginning at 9:30 am EST (8:30 am CST). This collection goals to additional inform and educate foundry personnel about finest practices for AM in steel casting, which is a rising space of experience. The in-person format will facilitate dialogue between the contributors of the workshop, who will learn to leverage AM to solid complicated elements, cut back scrap, acquire pace to market benefits, and allow international competitiveness.
“Because of participation within the aggressive one-day workshop, attendees will perceive present and rising AM know-how purposes for metalcasting whereas connecting to an progressive group of execs to create worth over time.”
You may get tickets for the seminar right here.
February 18: NCDMM Alliance Companion Lunch & Study
At 12 pm EST on Tuesday, February 18th, the most recent providing within the NCDMM Alliance Companion Lunch & Study Webinar Sequence can be held. “Unleashing Potential: How Manufacturing Readiness Assessments Drive Steady Enchancment” will discover how even very profitable manufacturing processes might be fine-tuned and improved by Manufacturing Readiness Assessments, or MRAs. Brian Schmidt, Program Supervisor & Laboratory Operations Director on the Nationwide Middle for Protection Manufacturing & Machining (NCDMM), will clarify how MRAs may help establish hidden alternatives for optimization, in addition to share sensible steps to extend effectivity and cut back prices, strategic insights for proactively managing manufacturing dangers and provide chain dependencies, and extra.
“In at this time’s aggressive panorama, excellence is an evolving goal. An MRA may help optimize strengths, establish delicate inefficiencies, and equip your workforce for future development alternatives.”
You possibly can register for the lunch and be taught right here.
February 18: GZERO Additive Open Home
Additionally on the 18th, GZERO Additive welcomes clients and neighborhood members to an open home at its Cincinnati, Ohio location from 4-7 pm EST. Based in 2021, GZERO Additive builds giant, industrial-grade FFF 3D printers, which might be fitted with single or twin high-volume extruders. Moreover, the corporate is a trusted service bureau that makes use of its personal printers to manufacture prototype and manufacturing elements out of a wide range of thermoplastic supplies for a lowered value. Mild refreshments can be served on the open home, and there may also be demonstrations of its industrial 3D printers, facility excursions, and shows of demonstration elements in engineered plastics.
“We’re very excited to indicate off our merchandise, our newest developments, and our new facility,” stated GZERO Additive Co-Founder Michael Parks.
You possibly can RSVP for the occasion right here.
February 19 – 21: MFG Assembly 2025
The 2025 MFG Assembly by AMT – The Affiliation for Manufacturing Expertise and the Nationwide Tooling & Machining Affiliation (NTMA) can be held from February 19-21 in San Antonio, Texas. This system will cowl subjects like AI, the maritime industrial base, cybersecurity, the automotive provide chain, and extra. There may also be a number of enjoyable actions, just like the Miles For Manufacturing 5K Run/Stroll, yoga, a golf outing, the MFG Reception and Dinner (sponsored by Kennametal), and extra.
“To win in at this time’s fast-changing manufacturing panorama, you want a method that permits your organization to plan a number of strikes forward. MFG 2025 brings collectively present, former, and future leaders of the manufacturing know-how trade to search out enterprise options and construct profitable methods.”
You possibly can register for the occasion right here.
February 20 – 22: LMT LAB DAY Chicago 2025
LMTmag will maintain its fortieth Annual LAB DAY Chicago from February 20-22, and it will likely be the largest one but, with practically 300 exhibitors and over 450 concurrent seminars. That is the world’s largest dental laboratory present, and as dental 3D printing is a fast-growing utility, a number of AM firms can be exhibiting on the occasion, together with 3D Methods, Axtra3D, Carbon, Formlabs Dental, Glidewell, LuxCreo, and extra. A number of instructional seminars may also concentrate on the usage of additive within the dental area. Should you can’t make LMT LAB DAY this week, LMT LAB DAY West can be in California in Could, and LMT LAB DAY East involves New York in September.
“What started in 1985 has shortly grown to 275+ exhibitors, two exhibit halls, 4600+ attendees and three days of seminars.”
You possibly can register for the occasion right here.
February 20 – 22: CDS Midwinter Assembly 2025
Talking of the dental trade, the one hundred and sixtieth Chicago Dental Society (CDS) Midwinter Assembly may also be held from Feb 20-22. There can be some AM trade firms exhibiting on the assembly, together with 3Shape, SprintRay, Glidewell, and Shining 3D. The occasion will characteristic 45 hands-on workshops, scholar scientific analysis posters, many particular occasions, and even the Velocity Scan Smackdown, the place contestants will use intraoral scanners to scan a typodont as shortly and precisely as potential. The highest finalists will compete for the grand prize by scanning a reside affected person volunteer!
“Hear distinctive audio system and packages for persevering with training, take within the newest in dental improvements from lots of of exhibitors and luxuriate in entertaining occasions and receptions to have fun our milestone anniversary yr.”
Study extra about registration right here.
February 20: Streamlining LPBF Powder Administration
TriMech will maintain a webinar about “Streamlining LPBF Powder Administration with One Click on Steel’s MPrint and MPurePro” at 10 am EST on Thursday, February twentieth. Designed to simplify and optimize workflows, One Click on Steel’s MPrint LPBF 3D printer and MPurePro powder administration system assist with powder dealing with and post-processing. The answer has separate powder containers for provide and overflow, an automatic sieve, and a standalone powder retrieval system, so customers can begin new print jobs whereas additionally managing the powder from earlier ones. TriMech Functions Engineer Andrew Miller will present an introduction to laser powder mattress fusion (LPBF) 3D printing and its purposes, an outline of the One Click on Steel resolution, and examine One Click on Steel’s strategy to conventional LPBF post-processing steps
“The laser powder mattress fusion (LPBF) course of is a game-changer within the steel additive manufacturing trade, providing unparalleled design freedom and the power to create intricate, high-performance elements. Nevertheless, conventional LPBF printers usually require complicated and time-consuming powder administration procedures, together with handbook sieving and in-printer postprocessing. These steps can result in prolonged downtimes and operational inefficiencies.”
You possibly can register for the webinar right here.
February 20: Overcoming Challenges in 3D Printed Elements Inspection
Additionally at 10 am EST on the twentieth, the ASTM Worldwide AM Middle of Excellence will maintain a webinar about “Overcoming Challenges in Inspecting Additively-Manufactured Elements.” High quality and reliability are essential components in AM, and inspection and high quality assurance might be difficult to realize. 3D printed parts can have residual stresses, inner defects, and materials inconsistencies that you would be able to’t see from the surface. Don Roth, PhD, Inspection Fellow, and Mahdi Jamshid, PhD, Director, Market Intelligence—each with Wohler’s Associates—will talk about the present challenges and options in AM inspection, and embody case research of 3D printed elements that have been inspected with X-ray computed tomography.
“The webinar will enable you to know why the precise information about inspection not solely permits dependable AM manufacturing, however may also assist to enhance the whole manufacturing course of, together with part design.”
You possibly can register for the webinar right here.
February 20: Past the Forge with HP
HP will maintain the eleventh session in its “Past the Forge: A Metals 3D Printing Sequence” at 11 am EST on Thursday the twentieth. The collection is supposed to teach, encourage, and empower professionals within the area of steel 3D printing, and the primary episode was about Steel Jet know-how, whereas the second targeted on the advantages of 3D printing vs. conventional manufacturing strategies. The third was about “Design and Selecting Elements to Print,” the fourth targeted on sintering with additive manufacturing, and the fifth was about “Steel Jet Software program Options.” The sixth episode targeted on post-processing choices, and the seventh was all about value analysis. The eighth was about “Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing,” the ninth targeted on “Steel Jet Supplies and Supplies Roadmap,” and the tenth was all about “Steel Jet for Machine Retailers and Service Bureaus.” This newest session can be about “Skilled Companies For Steel Jet Adoption.”
“Soar into Session 11 to learn the way HP helps firms undertake the Steel Jet know-how although our Skilled Companies. Hear what we provide, what the advantage of every is, and how one can begin profiting from them!”
You possibly can register for the session right here.
February 20: 3DHEALS on 3D Printed Orthopedic Units
It’s a busy day on the twentieth, as 3DHEALS can also be holding an occasion at 11 am EST that day. Its newest on-line discussion board, “3D Printed Units in Orthopedics,” will characteristic trade specialists discussing the most recent developments in backbone implants, custom-made joint replacements, and bioengineered prosthetics. Attendees will be taught from the panel of specialists how AM can cut back surgical procedure occasions, revolutionize affected person care, and enhance long-term outcomes. Digital networking may also be accessible through the Zoom platform.
“The 3D printing revolution is reshaping the orthopedic trade, and high gamers like Stryker, DePuy Synthes, and Smith & Nephew are main the way in which with cutting-edge 3D-printed implants. With the worldwide 3D-printed orthopedic implant market surpassing $1 billion and rising quickly, now could be the time to remain forward of the curve.”
You possibly can register for the discussion board right here.
February 20: AMIS Launching Professional v2.5
Lastly, at 4:30 pm EST on Thursday, February twentieth, you’ll be able to attend the reside launch webinar for AMIS Professional, an expert construct preparation resolution for MJF, SLS, BJ, and MJ applied sciences. AMIS is the HYBRID Software program division targeted on manufacturing software program for jetting AM applied sciences, and the brand new Professional v2.5 is quick and straightforward to make use of, so you’ll be able to enhance your batches and your workflow. Attendees will learn the way AMIS Professional can enhance construct preparation, the workflow and options in AMIS Professional v2.5, AMIS Professional pricing, future software program options, and extra. Plus, in the event you attend the launch webinar, you’ll get entry to a free four-week AMIS Professional v2.5 trial license, and one free month of an AMIS Professional Annual License, if ordered earlier than April 1st.
“Construct Preparation should be straightforward, fast, and optimised on your AM know-how, proper?
“With that mantra in thoughts, we’ve constructed AMIS Professional during the last yr and a half, and we’re blissful to show the consequence to you.”
You possibly can register for the reside launch webinar right here.
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