Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and successfully hot-fire tested an entire 3D-printed rocket engine. The Baby Bantam demonstration engine was made entirely with additive manufacturing, which reduced part count from dozens of components to only three. Total design and manufacturing times…
As the 3D printing industry begins a steady shift toward end-production parts manufacturing, some of the prototyping-based models it has operated on for 30 years must change. Renaissance Services is actively prototyping 3D printing manufacturing processes. Read More
The latest statistical process control (SPC) software offers manufacturers easy-to-use and effective real-time process quality control. Widely used by the automotive, aerospace and other mission-critical industries, statistical process control software offers its users a simple way to monitor and analyze quality data…
Airbus is moving into 3D printing for manufacturing its aircraft in a major way. That’s right — not just prototyping parts, but making final, end-product components. Renaissance Services continues to grow our 3D printing efforts. Read More…
Before we dive into this divergence, it is important to realize that the philosophy behind most PDM systems pretty much started in the same place. Practically all the stuff you wanted to get into a PDM system lived on desktop…
As printers become smaller and less expensive, the defense and aerospace industry stand to glean major cost savings from the technology. Using more advanced printers and metal-based substances, companies are looking to manufacture hard-to-make items, such as brackets and tools…
New QIF™ V1.0 Standard: A Significant Breakthrough for the Metrology Industry Burleson, Texas, USA December 23, 2013 —The (DMSC) Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium announced today the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved QIF v1.0 (Quality Information Framework, version 1.0)…
CAD, Cloud, Browser… Since SolidWorks first started CAD in the cloud debates by making SolidWorks in the cloud announcement back on SolidWorks World 2010. Read more here….
Attend the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Department of Defense (DoD) Model-Based-Enterprise (MBE) Summit to be held on the NIST Gaithersburg campus December 18-19, 2013. Visit website here……
The CAD model at its very core, like the engineering drawing before it, is primarily a means of documentation and communication. CAD technologies continue to ease the creation and manipulation of increasingly intricate 3D models across a dizzying array of…