The role of connected manufacturing in pandemic recovery
Working in manufacturing has been an interesting time in the last 12 months, with a rapid and yet, mostly undiscussed transition to working from home. With that has come a lot of really clever solution ...
Meet BigRep – Redefining Additive
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We're wrapping up our BigRep series with a video that sums up everything we've seen so far from...
Optimising your design to keep additive manufacturing systems efficient
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By now we have a fairly good idea of what the BigRep PRO is capable of doing. And...
High speed 3D printing with the BigRep Pro: Just how fast does it get...
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We've seen the type of innovation that can be created using BigRep's flagship product, the BigRep Pro. Whether...
America’s oldest stiff extrusion manufacturer just cut costs by 75% with large-format 3D printing
It takes a while, but sometimes old dogs do learn new tricks.
JC Steele & Sons (known Down Under as Steele Australia) has been a...
Aussie scientists develop 3D printing technology that could disrupt the global stent manufacturing industry
Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, in partnership with Wollongong-based Medical Innovation Hub, have come up with a way to 3D print tailor-made...
Defence teams up with Brisbane technology company to rapidly produce face shields
The Australian Army has teamed up with design technology company, 3D One Australia, to rapidly produce 400 face shields for frontline healthcare workers.Â
The Brisbane-based...
The Smarter 3D Printing Series: Getting on board with 3D Printing
The fourth industrial revolution promises a paradigm shift to industry and society. The combination of cyber-physical systems (CPS), the internet of things (IoT), industrial internet of things (IIOT), cloud computing...
The Smarter 3D Printing Series: Competitive Advantage of 3D Printing
Cyclical change occurs in industry when novel and innovative technologies and methodologies start to transform and disrupt existing industrial practices. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 in common parlance is one such cyclical change that we are current in the midst of. It can be loosely defined as the introduction of automation and data exchange to create self governing manufacturing systems illustrated below.
The Smarter 3D Printing Series: Embracing Additive Manufacturing for Traditional Manufacturing
Labour costs have begun to rise making automation more attractive and threatening job security. Focus has also shifted from mass produced products to customised products particularly in the field of consumer products. Fortunately, 3D printing is able to mitigate these changes and allow manufacturing to shift from traditional to advanced production.
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