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July 2014
Stratasys Case Study – Instrumentation Laboratory
“FDM helped us achieve a manufacturing cost reduction of 40%. That’s 10% more than the traditional approach would have offered.”
— Scott Notaro, Medical Engineering Manager, Instrumentation Laboratory
Instrumentation Laboratory is a worldwide manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic instruments, related reagents and controls for use primarily in hospitals and independent clinical laboratories. The company’s product lines include critical care systems, hemostasis systems and information management systems.
The company developed its […]
June 2014
Tools Without Tooling: How Additive Manufacturing is Changing the Way We Make…Everything
Reprinted from the Stratays Blog.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been called the Next Industrial Revolution, improving virtually every aspect of the way products are made. Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) is a key component of additive manufacturing, which generally describes the process of producing parts directly from digital CAD data.
Normally DDM stories tend to focus on end use parts, where additive manufacturing is used to cost-effectively produce the final […]
Exploring a New World of 3D Printed Product Realism with Flexible Color Digital Materials
Reprinted from the Stratasys Blog: 9 Jun. 2014 by
Today we’re excited to unveil Stratasys’ extended range of flexible and rigid material options for theObjet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer. With these new color palettes, Stratasys is continuing […]
How Stratasys Is Leading The Next Industrial Revolution
Reprinted from http://tcbmag.com/
Ask around about what’s happening with the increasingly talked-about technology called 3-D printing and you’ll hear a barrage of comments that sound like something Isaac Asimov would say: “Did you know you can print canoes?” “They’re printing cars!” “Did you hear about the human heart they made?” “There’s a printer making edible food.” They can sound straight out of sci-fi, but they’re often true.
Three-dimensional printing has been around for more than 20 years, but […]
May 2014
Additive manufacturing drives production of race-ready parts.
Reprinted from the Stratasys Blog: By Allen Kreemer, Stratasys, Inc.
Additive manufacturing (AM) has been crucial in the motor sports world for years. In the race for speed and performance, it has been
a lynchpin for design and testing. Now, race teams are revealing that AM parts will go far beyond review and evaluation. They have
found that AM is ready to hit the track and endure the rigors of […]
From the Stratasys Blog – 3D Printing the Legendary Escher Lizard
The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher continues to fascinate and inspire more than 40 years after his departure.
Especially well known for his mathematical bent and two-dimensional renderings of “impossible” three-dimensional geometries, workarounds for Escher’s tricky angles and structures have found a home with 3D printing!
Rachel McConnell, who explores art, engineering and design in her work, used an Objet500 Connex Multi-Material 3D Printer by Stratasys to create a […]