Bespoke surgical implants are among the promises of additive manufacturing (AM). Unique 3D printed implants based on precise 3D measurements of the patient ensure that the implant is a perfect fit, and also enable certain surgeries that might not otherwise be possible. In this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we look at a successful example: a 3D printed scapula replacing that of a patient whose own scapula was afflicted with a tumor. The new scapula was designed according to data from a CT scan of the original bone. Join us as we hear from the surgeon who embraced 3D printing, Dr. Joseph Benevenia; the implant specialist who designed the scapula, OrthoTiN; and Amplify Additive, the specialist in electron beam melting (EBM) that 3D printed the custom scapula replacement.    This episode brought to you by Carpenter Additive. https://www.carpenteradditive.com/   LEARN MORE ABOUT:  - Dr. Joseph Benevenia: https://njms-web.njms.rutgers.edu/profile/myProfile.php?mbmid=benevejo - OrthoTiN: https://www.orthotin.com/ - Ampify Additive and EBM implant manufacturing: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/for-ebm-implant-manufacturer-growth-is-built-into-the-plan - Electron beam melting (GE Additive): https://www.ge.com/additive/ebm - 3D printed implants: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/hashtag/browse/implants HAVE A COOL 3D PRINTED PART TO SHARE?  Tell us about it! Email coolparts@additivemanufacturing.media or comment below.  ----------------------------  FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:  - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia  - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/  - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/  - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/  ----------------------------  ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE:  Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference.  Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/  Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

Deciding whether and how to 3D print a given part is a time-consuming process that still relies heavily on the knowledge of the engineer. Algorithms based on machine learning and artificial intelligence can help automate these decisions and accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM). In this video, Senior Editor Stephanie Hendrixson talks with Eitan Yona, cofounder of PrintSyst, a cloud-based tool that analyzes part designs for 3D printability. LEARN MORE: - How the PrintSyst Perfecter works + video transcript https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/printsyst-automates-am-decision-making-with-ai-includes-video - An example of adaptive manufacturing based on AI to self-correct during the printing process https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/ai-driven-adaptive-manufacturing-software-aims-to-self-correct-3d-printing-includes-video - Why additive manufacturing needs machine learning and AI https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/columns/with-machine-learning-we-will-skip-ahead-100-years - More on machine learning and additive manufacturing https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/hashtag/machinelearning - Other videos in our software series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLimuCbrTx8FHyl5zhLud6OV1Xsf07tPCw ----------------------------   FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/   ----------------------------   ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

Additive Engineering Solutions (AES) of Akron, Ohio, recently made a big change to its facility: digging a 6-foot hole in the floor. The "pit" has allowed the company to increase the Z-height capacity for two of its Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) 3D printers from Cincinnati Inc. In this video, company co-founders Austin Schmidt and Andrew Bader discuss the advantages they are realizing from this arrangement, and Additive Manufacturing senior editor Stephanie Hendrixson takes a ride on the build plate. LEARN MORE ABOUT: - A job where the pit came in handy, highlighted in an episode of The Cool Parts Show https://youtu.be/_d-MygJDY8U - How Additive Engineering Solutions got its start https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/ohio-business-sees-big-possibilities-in-baam-for-tooling - Examples of the kinds of tooling jobs AES is known for https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/from-cad-file-to-composite-part-in-72-hours https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/concrete-facade-made-with-3d-printed-tooling-now-complete ---------------------------- FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/ ---------------------------- ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

It had to happen. Large-format additive manufacturing (AM) systems are expanding their use and finding new applications — meaning The Cool Parts Show eventually would meet a cool part too big for the studio. For our first episode involving a part this large, we not only traveled to the part, we went inside the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) machine used to produce it. Additive Engineering Solutions (AES) of Akron, Ohio, used its BAAM capability to allow Dive Technologies to produce hull sections of its autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) without tooling. Dive’s innovation is a UAV capable of long distances and long missions, such as mapping the ocean floor for a week at a time. The flexibility of producing hull components through 3D printing has allowed the Dive founders to realize another possible for this system: allowing UAV users to adopt hulls with different sizes or shapes as their needs change.   This episode brought to you by Carpenter Additive. https://www.carpenteradditive.com/    LEARN MORE ABOUT: - Dive Technologies: https://divetechnologies.com/ - Additive Engineering Solutions: https://www.additiveeng.com/ - More of our coverage of AES: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/suppliers/addengsol - The "mold moment," and what it means that 3D printing now changes this: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/additive-manufacturing-creates-new-paths-to-production - BAAM platform (Cincinnati Incorporated): https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/suppliers/cincinc - Fiber-reinforced 3D printing polymer (Sabic): https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/large-format-additive-manufacturing-viable-for-autoclave-tooling HAVE A COOL 3D PRINTED PART TO SHARE? Tell us about it! Email coolparts@additivemanufacturing.media or comment below. ---------------------------- FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/ ---------------------------- ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

An instrument system that is part of NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, scheduled to land on Mars soon after we post this episode, uses components 3D printed through electron beam melting (EBM) by Carpenter Additive. The titanium parts were challenging to produce because of a design relying on internal lattices and other delicate features to achieve high strength despite minimal material use in accordance with a strict mass budget. As this episode of The Cool Parts Show describes, NASA engineers had to design these components without considering how they might be made. The resulting manufacturing process demands not just 3D printing, but also a sequence of postprocessing steps including chemical milling. See replicas of the Perseverance additive manufactured parts in this episode, which we filmed while Perseverance was in the final days of its approach to Mars. LEARN MORE ABOUT: - The manufacturing challenge of the Mars rover PIXL components: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/mars-rover-instrument-is-manufacturing-challenge-3d-printing-victory - NASA’s Perseverance mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ - Carpenter Additive: https://www.carpenteradditive.com/ - Electron beam melting, a technology from GE Additive: https://www.ge.com/additive/ebm - Additive manufacturing for lightweighting; https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/hashtag/lightweighting HAVE A COOL 3D PRINTED PART TO SHARE? Tell us about it! Email coolparts@additivemanufacturing.media or comment below. ---------------------------- FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/ ---------------------------- ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

Applying directed energy deposition (DED) to a part that is rotating allows for a means of metal 3D printing that is essentially the opposite of turning in CNC machining. Rather than removing metal in a cylindrical or axially symmetrical pattern, which is what turning does, this “additive turning” adds material in the same fashion. This is additive manufacturing (AM) for building parts such as large cylindrical housings, potentially as an alternative to casting this type of part. In this video, David Bourdages, product manager with computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software provider Open Mind, demonstrates programming for this type of AM build. Open Mind’s programming technology has long been used for CNC machining, and the company has adapted it now into creating toolpaths for DED. Bourdages illustrates the important role five-axis machine motion plays in additive turning (as well as in DED in general), and also talks about the validation of additive-turned components recently performed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Related resources - CAM programming from Open Mind: https://www.openmind-tech.com/en-us.html - Introduction to DED: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/what-is-directed-energy-deposition - Another Introduction to DED: https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/video-what-is-directed-energy-deposition ---------------------------- FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/company/addi...   ---------------------------- ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub

The Cool Parts Show will stream it's first ever live show on December 8th at 3:30 EST through the IMTS Spark platform. Registration is free so come join us and share your questions as we show off some cool parts and speak to experts on 3D printing! To join us, register at imts.com/spark and add The Cool Parts Show to your show planner.

In this special episode of The Cool Parts Show, our hosts visit the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden to see how a 3D printed feeding device (also made in Cincinnati by GE Additive) is being used to improve the lives of birds, foxes meerkats and more. This bonus episode and all of Season 3 brought to you by Carpenter Additive. https://www.carpenteradditive.com/ LEARN MORE ABOUT: - The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden http://cincinnatizoo.org/ - GE Additive and Addworks https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/suppliers/geadditive https://www.ge.com/additive/additive-manufacturing/addworks - The initial announcement of the feeder collaboration http://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/3d-printing-technology-helps-cincinnati-zoos-meerkats-mimic-wild-behaviors/ - Electron Beam Melting (EBM) as developed by Arcam https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/ebm-offers-a-new-alternative-for-producing-titanium-parts-and-prototypes HAVE A COOL 3D PRINTED PART TO SHARE? Tell us about it! Email coolparts@additivemanufacturing.media or comment below. ---------------------------- FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: - Twitter https://twitter.com/AddMfgMedia - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/addmfgmedia/ - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/addmfgmedia/ - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/additive-manufacturing-media/ ---------------------------- ABOUT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE: Additive Manufacturing is the leading media brand covering 3D printing for industrial applications. In addition to the print magazine, AM includes a website, e-newsletter and annual conference. Visit Additive Manufacturing online at http://www.additivemanufacturing.media/ Subscribe at https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/sub