The Part Is Only Half the Story: Why 3D Printing Needs a Digital Thread
A 3D printed part can generate a lot of information. The challenge is keeping track of it. Manufacturers need to know which design was used, what material went into the part, which machine produced it,...
View ArticleIperionX Prepares to Scale Its Titanium Powder Production
If critical minerals processing were easy, then countries other than China would still be good at it. Amongst all industries, miners and processors of critical minerals face extraordinary opposition in...
View ArticleHow Drone Proliferation Is Forcing a Rethink of Defense Manufacturing
The rapid proliferation of low-cost drones is forcing manufacturers to rethink their approach to design, production, quality, and scale. For defense manufacturing teams, the challenge is both how...
View Article3D Printed Football Helmets Are Amazing Business. They’re Also So Much More
NFL football is by far the most popular sport in the US, followed by college football (a state-of-affairs oddly similar to the fact that the world’s largest air force is the US Air Force, followed by...
View ArticlePhillips Federal Becomes Exclusive Phase3D Reseller for North American...
Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company...
View ArticlePhase3D Gets Air Force Contract for Real-Time CMC Inspection
Inspection software and tooling firm Phase3D has been given a Department of the Air Force contract. Its Fringe Inspection platform will be used in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). CMCs are an evolving...
View ArticleOqton’s 3D Printing Software Wins ASTRO-InSPIRE’s 2nd Annual Tech Challenge
Rejoice, ye process engineers! Your raised concerns do not go in vain. Additive manufacturing (AM) materials qualification is genuinely becoming the central focal point for commercialization efforts in...
View ArticleThe Barnes Global Advisors Lands BPMI Metal AM Database Contract
Other than workforce development, materials qualification is perhaps the greatest existing barrier to the scale-up of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Moreover, improving access to data on metals...
View ArticlePhase3D Puts Its ISM Hardware in the Hands of AM’s Future Workforce with...
The US additive manufacturing (AM) industry faces a turning point in terms of its approach to R&D. As has been the case for aggregate R&D in the US economy at least since World War II...
View Article3D Printing News Briefs, August 1st, 2026: Project Calls, Contact Lenses,...
We’re starting with the winners of two America Makes project calls in this first 3D Printing News Briefs of August! Then we’ll move on to AM quality control for aerospace, and research from the...
View ArticleNASA Funds Phase3D Research Project to Advance In-Situ Monitoring for Metal AM
Garbage in, garbage out: that cliche is currently associated most often with AI, but it really refers to the universal principle whereby a final outcome is only as useful as the quality of the data...
View ArticlePhase3D’s In-Situ Monitoring Lands $2.9M in Oversubscribed Round
The use of metal additive manufacturing (AM) for production at scale appears to be steadily increasing, as evidenced by recent announcements like EOS’s sale of 30 M4 ONYX systems to Beehive Industries....
View ArticleUltiMaker Targets Defense Manufacturing With New Factor 4 Plus
UltiMaker has announced the new Factor 4 Plus. The printer, which sits above the S series, has a 330 x 240 x 300 mm build volume and a 120-kilo dual-nozzle material extrusion system. The printer has...
View ArticleAdditive Manufacturing Is Rewriting the Rules of Reshoring
Reshoring sounds straightforward: bring production back home. In practice, it’s far more complex. According to recent research by Hexagon in 2025, about 36% of U.S. manufacturing leaders are actively...
View ArticleEverything is Connected: Cisco’s Samuel Pasquier Explains the Relevance of...
On its own, additive manufacturing (AM) may not need a new round of record-setting investment in order to move to new heights of scalability (whether or not any investors would even be willing to foot...
View ArticleIs Industrial Filament 3D Printing Finally Production-Ready? HP’s New Webinar...
HP Additive Manufacturing Solutions is getting ready to introduce something big for the additive manufacturing world. On March 31, 2026, the company will host a webinar offering a first look at its...
View ArticleCisco Report Finds Cybersecurity and Networks Determine AI Growth in...
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a market in-itself. Still, more broadly, it can be viewed as one component of a shift in the productive economy towards interconnection by the Industrial Internet of...
View ArticleDOE Backs DMG Mori AI Tool to Speed Qualification of 3D Printed Parts
Since 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded projects that leverage the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of the U.S. national laboratories to optimize manufacturing...
View ArticleMelotte Partners with amsight and Additive Center to Reduce CT Scanning for...
The first report for Additive Manufacturing Research (AMR) that I wrote solo was about the AM market opportunity in semiconductor capital equipment (semicap) components. Published in early 2024, the...
View ArticleThe Real World Impact of Simulated Parts: Why Novineer and Stratasys...
If one of the primary advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) is that it’s “digitally-native,” then the hardware will ultimately only be as good as the software guiding the process. That has arguably...
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