3D Printing Set to Go Vroom in Auto Parts Industry
As thousands of automobile enthusiasts crowded in the Jacob Javits conference center in New York this past weekend for the 2013 edition of the International Auto Show, not many of them appreciated how the manufacturing of many of the cars being showcased is being transformed.
NEMO Equipment Moves at the Speed of 3D
Like many small businesses selling consumer products, NEMO Equipment understands the need to be fast. Having set up camp in a specialty market with a fairly discerning customer base and several bigger and better-funded brand names, the maker of tents, sleeping bags and other high-performance backpacking and camping gear has stayed in the game by being quicker, more nimble and more innovative in design than the big gorillas in the room.
3D Printing to Revolutionize Solar Energy Industry?
John J. Licata, the chief energy strategist of Blue Phoenix, a next-gen energy research and consulting company, thinks 3D printing has the potential to revolutionize solar panel and photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturing.
China Using 3D Printing to Build Next-Gen Jets
With funding from the government, especially from the military, Chinese aviation laser technologists are making gains in producing titanium parts for the country's fifth generation of fighter jets, the J-20 and J-31, by lowering the cost and raising the jets' thrust-weight ratio.
