By Geoff Giordano Record attendance and spirited discussion from beginning to end marked the most successful Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop to date. LIA’s sixth-annual LAM spotlighted a multitude of promising developments in AM research, materials and processes, and previewed progress on the horizon. Organized into two educational tracks, showcasing powder-bed processes March 12 and […]
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LIA’s Laser U Releases New Laser Applications & Safety Course Modules for Flexible Continuing Education
ORLANDO, FL, Oct. 2, 2013 — The Laser Institute of America has added a dozen cutting-edge modules to Laser U, its innovative online laser education portal. Seven of the new courses come from LIA’s Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop, while five more emerge from the biennial International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC®) held in Orlando in […]
Digital Photonic Production and Its Emerging Opportunities
By Christian Hinke Digital photonic production enables us to fabricate almost any component or product directly from digital data. Experts characterize the photon or the laser as the only tool that “works” as quickly as a computer “thinks.” An office laser printer functions according to this principle and reveals what will be possible in future […]
Consumer Goods Made by Manufacturing
By Bart Van der Schueren Since being founded in 1990, Materialise has been active in the field of 3D printing and over the years, has seen this technology evolve tremendously. 3D printing has gone from a young, relatively unknown technology suited to producing realistic yet fragile prototypes, to a technology capable of capturing the world’s […]