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When we first covered Model No. in 2020, the company was manufacturing furniture on its own large-format 3D printers, built to designs directly manipulated by customers through parametric options available on its website. Four years later, production looks a bit different. Gone is the user-facing design tool, as the company has discovered that conversation with customers is the more effective way to arrive at the right designs for its clients. More colors and materials are offered today, in part because of a circular economy-focused project that Model No. completed with several partners. And there's one important change to how furniture is made--listen to the episode to learn how (and why) the company's 3D printing capacity has evolved in the last few years.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
The 2024 update article about Model No. Stephanie's original 2020 story about the company Model No. as an example of a manufacturer producing on its own 3D printer in this AM Radio podcast episode from 2021 More on the “AM Factory” concept More on the EXT 1070 Titan Pellet 3D printer available from 3D Systems, the platform used by Model No.  The episode of The Cool Parts Show featuring Eaton, another company applying the Titan platform for large-format 3D printing of innovative materials — in this case for aerospace parts Stephanie's Model No. table on LinkedIn and X

We are trying something new on the podcast! Whenever one of us on Additive Manufacturing Media pays a visit to a manufacturer for the first time, we want to talk about the trip as soon as we return. Why keep this recap to ourselves? In this episode of AM Radio, here is Stephanie Hendrixson getting the full download just after I paid a visit to Innovative 3D Manufacturing in Franklin, Indiana. Innovative does contract production using 12 laser powder bed fusion machines, all from Renishaw. Just part of what struck me is this company’s connection to foundry work — not just in terms of process, such as workholding technique, but also in terms of business opportunity, because Innovative is getting work due to foundry leadtime challenges. Listen to our conversation above, or on your favorite podcast app. And for even more on Innovative, read the article I wrote, which is linked below. - Peter Zelinski, editor-in-chief, Additive Manufacturing
Mentioned in this episode: Pete’s companion article on Innovative 3D Manufacturing, including photos from inside this facility Neighborhood 91, an AM industrial park in Pittsburgh More examples of production AM contract manufacturers
 

What is qualification, and what does it entail for additive manufacturing applications? In this episode of AM Radio, Dr. Tim Simpson joins Additive Manufacturing Media editors Pete Zelinski and Stephanie Hendrixson to talk about various issues around qualification in AM, including: the difference between qualification and certification; the expense of qualification activities; how standards are developed; and the opportunities additive can realize with qualified procedures.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
How RP+M manufactures aerospace parts for major OEMs and helped to create NCAMP Document 89085 NASA STD 6030 American Welding Society's AWS D20 ASTM standards on additive manufacturing SAE's AMS standards for additive manufacturing FDA's Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Medical Devices Würth Additive Group's work to develop digital inventory solutions Series from The Barnes Global Advisors on qualification in the rail, defense and space industries Another Giant Leap for AM — New Standards by Tim Simpson

In the last episode of AM Radio for 2023, hosts Pete Zelinski, Stephanie Hendrixson and Fiona Lawler look back on Additive Manufacturing Media's top 10 stories by pageviews for the year. The list reveals some interesting trends including the ramp up in additive manufacturing "factories," additive adoption that necessitates more sophisticated downstream processing, and a heavy emphasis on metal 3D printing. In the second half of the show, the hosts share their favorite stories, regardless of ranking, written by someone else.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
Top 10 stories by pageviews for 2023 AM Factory issue of Additive Manufacturing Magazine United Performance Metals Is the One-Stop Build Plate Shop for Production AM 3D Printing Project to Advance Medical Device Customization New Zeda Additive Manufacturing Factory in Ohio Will Serve Medical, Military and Aerospace Production Next-Gen Horse Trailers to Be Built With Robotic 3D Printing ConocoPhillips Sees Oil and Gas Supply Chain Opportunity With Additive Manufacturing 6 Considerations When Launching an Additive Startup

The world's largest trade show for additive manufacturing technology featured more than 800 exhibitors across the entire AM value chain. Additive Manufacturing editors Peter Zelinski and Stephanie Hendrixson discuss what they learned and discovered at the event in this episode, including the rise of copper, the introduction of new processes for 3D printing in metals, equipment upgrades that don't rely on hardware, reduced barriers to entry for AM and much more.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
Formnext Coverage of the 2022 show Reinforce3D's postprocess reinforcing technique Horizon Microtechnologies' functional coatings Machine Improvements That Don’t Rely on Hardware Renishaw's Tempus system for simultaneous laser scanning and recoating EOS's Smart Fusion for controlling the melt pool temperature AI Build's toolpath and slicing software for robot-based systems Dyndrite's LPBF Pro New Metal Processes Additec's Liquid Metal Jetting Process, now part of a hybrid machine also offering laser wire DED and machining Valcun's Minerva machine for Molten Metal Deposition Cold Metal Fusion Headmade Materials MIMPlus Nexa3D The Rise of Copper 6K Additive's Unimelt process Metal Powder Works' method for producing metal powder from solid stock Lithoz's CeraFab Multi 2M30 for multimaterial parts Lowering the Barriers to Entry Evolve Additive Solutions STEP Parts Now (more about how STEP works) Nanodimension Giga machines 3D Systems SLS 300  Formlabs Fuse Blast for automated SLS depowdering Freemelt eMelt production platform for EBM AM Navigator from Siemens, Dyemansion, HP, ForwardAM, BASF, EOS Castor software for identifying AM parts Resurgence of Tooling Focus Demo part formed on 3D printed tooling with material from Airtech, printed on a Hans Weber machine Machine tool builder and now LFAM printer supplier Breton Markforged FX10 3D printer HP's partnership with INDO-MIM Tool Changing in AM Stratasys F3300 with four extruder heads nLight programmable laser Prolay FFF printer for Progressive Layer Thickness Manufacturing (PLTM)

Additive manufacturing "factories" and other facilities that have been built from the ground up to serve this process are becoming increasingly common, but a purpose-built space is not a necessity for successfully applying AM. Stephanie Hendrixson and Fiona Lawler discuss Fiona's recent trip to visit a newly established Protolabs facility dedicated to laser powder bed fusion, and swap stories of other AM spaces--from a 3D printer tucked under the stairs to a rented office space all the way to buildings acquired or built just for production additive manufacturing.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
Fiona Lawler's article on her visit to Protolabs’ new Raleigh, North Carolina, metal additive manufacturing facility Slice Mfg, medical implant manufacturer in Akron, Ohio OMG Additive, Cincinnati-based startup founded by JP Kinerk CATCH, the Charlotte Advanced Technology Collaboration Hub located within Siemens Energy A tour through Stratasys Direct Manufacturing’s Belton, Texas, facility Würth Additive Group (feature article forthcoming—subscribe to The BuildUp to see it first!) Sintavia's Hollywood, Florida, facility designed for equipment upgrades More from Formnext Forum Austin, including what we learned touring Cumberland Additive and EOS Pittsburgh's Neighborhood 91 campus for additive manufacturing