When President Barack Obama took a moment in his State of the Union address earlier this year to mention the converted warehouse in Youngstown, Ohio, that is home to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, he made Kevin Collier’s life a little more hectic. But Collier, factory manager of NAMII, doesn’t seem to mind. During […]
Laser Insights
Portable Laser Cladding for the Navy
By E.W. Reutzel, T.A. Palmer, R.P. Martukanitz Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory has been developing laser-based weld repair techniques for the U.S. Navy for 25 years. Until recently, the repairs have all been realized in a shop environment, where accessibility is rarely an issue, and where the work space can be carefully controlled in […]
High Deposition Rate Laser Cladding – Recent Advancements
By Jari Tuominen, Jonne Näkki, Henri Pajukoski, Tuomo Peltola, Petri Vuoristo Laser cladding is currently done with 3-6 kW gas and solid state lasers. Components to be clad or repaired are usually small or some discrete regions in larger components. Net deposition rates are typically 1-2 kg/h. In large area coating applications, conventional coating methods […]
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) Manufacturing Case Studies
By Scott Killian EOS was founded in 1989 and is today the world leading manufacturer of laser sintering systems. Laser sintering is the key technology for e-Manufacturing, the fast, flexible and cost-effective production of products, patterns or tools. The technology manufactures parts for every phase of the product life cycle, directly from electronic data. Laser […]
LIA Industry Watch: Catching up with Jim Sears and Rick Neff at RAPID 2013
A couple of weeks ago, we covered RAPID 2013 in Pittsburgh as part of a new level of outreach for Continuous Wave, which will increasingly profile key players and developments in the laser industry. On this foray, we ran into Jim Sears, general chair of next year’s sixth-annual Laser Additive Manufacturing Workshop, as well as Cincinnati […]