At the moment a barrel of oil is under $50. It may soon be under $30, quite a collapse from the $112 per barrel we saw just last summer. The oil crash is prompting a question: will low energy costs…
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At the moment a barrel of oil is under $50. It may soon be under $30, quite a collapse from the $112 per barrel we saw just last summer. The oil crash is prompting a question: will low energy costs…
3D printing, 4D printing, and various types of additive manufacturing (AM) will get even bigger in 2015. We’re not talking about consumer use, which gets most of the attention, but won’t have much actual impact on manufacturing. We’re talking about…
The landscape of American manufacturing has undergone significant changes over the last decade. Economic downturns drove some manufacturing overseas, and decreased production levels became the norm. However, there’s good news to share. 2015 will be a landmark year for American manufacturing.…
“If we are going to have 3D printers make spare and replacement parts for critical items in space, we have to be able to make spare parts for the printers,” NASA project manager Niki Werkheiser said in the statement. “The…
Looks like big data and software are delivering heightened optimization to U.S. manufacturing. John Zegers, director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Manufacturing, sees the ability to collect and use data as a tool to improve plant efficiency. Renaissance…
Here are a few more reasons to use 3D printing for making individual parts for cars and scooters, and investment casting from Solvay, Stratasys, and several divisions of CRP Group. This slideshow also includes Solvay’s work in replacing metal with…
High-hardness ferrous metal matrix composite (MMC) parts have been produced in a one-step 3D-printing process using a new nanosteel powder. The NanoSteel Company worked with an unnamed process development partner to adapt its nanosteel powders to laser sintering, producing a 99.9%…
More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country’s worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an original design. The change was approved by engineers, later resulting in a mammoth…
Technologies ranging from supervisory control and data acquisition to enterprise resource planning have made factories smart, and they are getting smarter every day. Just how much smarter factories can become will be determined largely by the research and development of…
After a year or so of missteps, false starts, retractions, and postponements, inkjet office printer giant Hewlett-Packard has finally revealed just what it plans to do in 3D printing. Renaissance Services continues to grow our additive manufacturing capabilities. Read More