Prototypes are designed to test fit, form and function. 3D printing offers an efficient way to create functional prototypes. There are advantages to using prototypes created with production materials.

3D Systems, one of the leaders in the 3D printing market space, announced that it would delay its earnings release schedule for this week to complete “the work related to a goodwill impairment charge ...

Advances in machine learning and shape-memory polymers are enabling engineers to design for mechanical performance first and ...

It may seem distinctly low-tech compared to some of the many technology trends I write about, but 3D and 4D printing will have very wide applications – and could be particularly powerful when combined ...

DLR has demonstrated the use of a 19.5-kHz sonotrode (slender silver cylinder at center of system above) to consolidate fibers impregnated with melted thermoplastic from pellets (storage and melting ...