When we think of 3D printers, we tend to envision either something small that can fit on a tabletop for home fabricators or maybe an industrial machine about the size of a phone booth. Most of the parts made for consumer and industrial applications can typically fit...
One of the essential considerations when designing a product for rapid prototyping, be it in metal or plastics, is the need for supports to hold up the structure while it’s being built up layer-by-layer. The inexorable pull of gravity will deform surface...
3D printing is still a relatively new manufacturing technology when compared to traditional machining operations, which have been used in some form for hundreds of years. The industry is changing and growing so fast that categories are rapidly being drawn...
Remember when personal computers first started coming into the modern workplace? Almost all of them, regardless of manufacturer, used the same ubiquitous colored plastic case. Called “putty”, it was a generic light brown mixed with off-white, and you would...
As China’s economy has grown enormously over the last few decades, hundreds of thousands of small shops and factories have sprouted up all over the country to take advantage of the influx of foreign capital and those buyers and product developers looking for low...
Michigan CNC Machining Parts, Inc. has just added to its molding capacity with a new Haitian 90-ton injection molding machine. This machine has a re-designed ceramic heating core that allows for the efficient melting of many kinds of thermoplastics for molding. In addition, the bi-metal...
