August 2011

Ken Versprille, analyst with CIMdata and SpaceClaim customers McCormick-Stevenson and Ramboll A/S will discuss how SpaceClaim helps them clean up CAD models.

Delcam will preview a range of new direct modelling options in PowerSHAPE 2012 at the AsiaMold exhibition to be held in Guangzhou, China, from 21st to 23rd September.

TCT Live 2011 will be taking place at the NEC in Birmingham from September 27 - 29, 2011. TCT Live will be staged concurrently with Interplas, MM Live, Nano Live and MEMS Live.

The combination of Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD software has helped SunPods to design and model its arrays without the need for physical prototypes or on-site testing.

Makino’s 2011 Advanced Manufacturing and High-Precision Technology Expo is scheduled to be held Oct. 12-13 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at its Technology Center in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Users of five-axis machining centres and multi-tasking mill-turn machines can now identify and report on poor machine alignments and geometry.

The conference will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on June 10–13, 2012, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel.

Z Corp is launching EngineeringZONE, an initiative inviting high school classes to visit Z Corp monthly for an afternoon to experience the latest 3D printing and 3D laser scanning technology.

The SOUTH-TEC show will be held in Charlotte, NC from October 11-13, 2011.

The service pack improves ZW3D in the areas of editing, sheet metal work, CAD/CAM operations, file import-export and is available in eight languages.

Including SAMTECH, LMS projects combined revenues for 2011 of 175 Million Euro or approximately 250 Million Dollars, and employs 1150 people over 40 offices in Europe, Americas and Asia.

KETIV AMA 2011 is a computer aided design training event for mechanical design and engineering professionals.

Inc. Magazine recognized Proto Labs as the 92nd fastest-growing private manufacturing company in the United States and the 44th fastest growing private company in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

The 45,000+ square feet of manufacturing facility, part of the HP Technology Campus, will house a projected 24 electric injection molding machines, ranging from 100 to 350 tons.

ASCON Group will showcase the 3D solid modeling system KOMPAS-3D V12 at the EMO Fair in Hannover, Germany from September 19 - 24, 2011.

MNI reports Wisconsin lost just 1,078 industrial jobs or less than one percent between June 2010 and June 2011, in sharp contrast to the 2.5% drop over the 2009-2010 survey period.

At the Bristol Model Engineering and Hobbies Exhibition, A1 Technologies exhibited equipment including tools for 3D design, 3D laser scanning, 3D printing and 3D machining.

The new recruits include new graduates in permanent positions and students wanting to gain employment experience during their courses that have been given fixed-term placements.

Thanks to full associativity with Autodesk design data, it is now possible to have CAM operations automatically updated in hyperMILL® if changes are made to the CAD models.

CAMWorks® 2011 automates the CNC programming process and reduces programming time by as much as 90 percent.

Illini Prosthetic Technologies used Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design software to develop a more affordable and more easily fitted prosthetic arm for below-elbow amputees.

The contest, which kicked off in honor of Earth Day on April 22, required contestants to use SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to design a low-impact airport terminal chair.

NTC America’s lineup will now include laser systems, transfer machines, grinding machines, machining centers, crankshaft milling machines, turning/broaching machines & wire saw systems.

MD&M Online is an internet-based conference and exposition dedicated to medical device design and development and will take place September 28-29, from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT.

"The feedback from my customers is that it surpasses rival technologies such as Stereolithography (SLA), which has traditionally been requested for transparent applications."

Membership in the LinkedIn® group of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) now exceeds 10,000, making it the largest group for plastics professionals on the LinkedIn.

Parts are built from a range of fine metal powders that are fully melted in a tightly controlled atmosphere layer by layer in thicknesses ranging from 20 to 100 microns.

The Users Conference is taking place at the Hilton of Orange County in Costa Mesa, California on October 4-6, 2011.

Don Ladanyi, of Westlake, Ohio, has been awarded prototyping and production services to help launch his product, TruFlavorWare®, designed specifically for chemotherapy patients.

Wisconsin is home to 9,000 manufacturers, who contribute $47 billion – 19% – to Wisconsin’s economy and employ 448,000 workers.

The forum promotes discussion, consultation and advise from industry professionals who have interest in advancing concepts, ideas, applications and designs for conductive resins and polymers.

Objet will also feature in the TCT LIVE Free Conference & Seminar Programme, with Chris Baker presenting an Additive Manufacturing Tech Brief at 1pm on Wednesday 28th September.

NCCS will integrate Celeritive’s ultra high-performance toolpath engine VoluMill into NCCS’ NCL Multi-axis machining software and offer it as an option upgrade.

Customers in the medical device, micro-electronics, consumer, solar, bio-photonics, MEMS, and micro-fluidics industries now have access to state-of-the-art visualization of micro-machined parts.

The conference will be held in Minneapolis on September 7-8, 2011.  Unlike other prototyping conferences, MPC will focus exclusively on the medical device industry.

Michael Siemer, an engineer and former Disney Imagineer, said he will co-lead a session on additive manufacturing/3D printing at the symposium.

IntelliCAD software is designed to work like AutoCAD and contains all of its standard features including DWG file support.

The ZScanner helps the company better perform quality assurance to document that its products precisely match design specifications.

The IPC Midwest Conference & Exhibition will be held on September 21–22, in Schaumburg, Illinois and feature the latest research from industry experts for manufacturing electronics.

By entering this contest, you have the opportunity to make the project you've always dreamed of a reality!

The new site offers access to millions of electronics datasheets, and visitors can also search for electronic components by part number.

Teams have to design and build a prototype of a new racing car from scratch, present it as a business case, and test its performance in various trials and a final race.

During the workshops, attendees will receive an overview of HyperWorks 11.0 and learn tips and tricks geared towards increasing efficiency in the workplace.

The new machine will be able to print parts in a variety of materials, including ABS (in both black and white), Ultem 9085, PC-ABS, Polycarbonate, PPSF Polyphenylsulfone, Polycarbonate and PC-ISO.

The list ranks the most successful U.S. metal fabricating companies as profiled in the June 2011 issue of The FABRICATOR®.

The Dow Solar Design to Zero Competition is an international challenge open to architecture, design and engineering students and professionals.

The new office in Eden Prairie, is staffed by a team of engineers recruited from Hewlett Packard’s Colorspan operation in Minnetonka that was relocated in May 2011.

MeshCAM V5 is the first release to include support for 64-bit CPUs, allowing MeshCAM to load extremely large files without 32-bit memory limitations.

The award will be presented to Dr. Mistree during the International Design Engineering Technical Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28 through 31.

Applications for ElectriPlast™ conductive plastics include everything from wire and power electronics, to shielding, antennas, capacitors and medical devices.

The £10 million development centre, created by the University of Sheffield, aims to accelerate the deployment of a range of innovative near net shape powder-based manufacturing processes.

The demonstration version of NCG CAM has unlimited usage and while there are restrictions to the machining output, it can also be used in its basic form as a FREE .iges viewer.

PLM Road Map™ 2011 will take place at The Inn at St. John's, outside of Detroit, Michigan, on October 4th and 5th.

The Industry Achievement Award recognizes manufacturing professionals who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the additive manufacturing industry.

The EMI shielding white paper explains how to properly design enclosures to ensure effective EMI shielding.

ASBPE’s Azbee Awards of Excellence program honors exceptional work for business-to-business, trade, association, and professional publications.

The CMSC showcased 47 exhibitors in the sold-out Exhibition Hall and the conference delivered a comprehensive program of 26 expert technical presentations.

Delcam will launch the 2012 version of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system at the EMO World of Metalworking exhibition to be held in Hannover from September 19th to 24th.

The show will once again line up with National Manufacturing Week (NMW) at the Sydney Showground from May 8 to 11, 2012.

To succeed, entrepreneurs must find a location that balances access to resources and low overhead costs for a higher chance of business success.

123D Sculpt lets users turn shapes, colors and textures into personalized pieces of 3D art.

FABTECH, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, finishing and welding event, will be held November 14-17, 2011, at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

New enhancements in SpaceClaim 2011 include advanced concept modeling and model preparation tools as well as robust manufacturing-focused capabilities.

The webinar will cover using thermoplastic fixtures in place of metal fixtures, preventing downtime, decreasing worker fatigue and creating workholding tools faster and easier than with machining.

Sullenberger's team ZPrinted patterns and mold boxes, quickly created silicon molds, and then heat-poured the urethane parts.

The research project involved the synthesis of functionalized carbon nanotubes for optimized properties in polymer composites, a project that could have broad application in automotive composites.

IMX 2011 - the Interactive Manufacturing eXperience will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV from September 12 – 14, 2011.

Using rapid prototyping to produce parts at GM invariably saves tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of time compared to traditional methods.

Mazak Corporation currently produces over 100 different models of Turning Centers, Multi-Tasking machines, and Vertical Machining Centers, many of which include 5-axis machining capabilities.

Delcam employs the largest development team in the industry, with 175 people working on the company’s manufacturing software.

Typical applications include critical rotating components (Blisks, Impellers, & Turbine Disks) for gas turbine power generation systems.

The 2011 class joins 268 other SME members who have been elected as Fellows since the program’s inception in 1986, and represents various segments of the manufacturing community.

The three-wheeled hybrid vehicle will be capable of traveling 100 miles on a single gallon of gas, as well as achieving highway-ready speeds of 85 miles per hour and a cruising range of 250 miles.

Productivity+ eliminates the requirement for the manual addition of probing cycles into G-code, instead using ‘point and click' feature selection from imported solid models.

The new expansion, when complete will bring Composite Resources total engineering and manufacturing space to 112,000 square feet.

The RapidX250 laser micromachining system was developed to fabricate microfluidics, MEMs and medical devices in a rapid prototype fashion with tolerances approaching 1 micron.

The AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2011 event will be held in Washington, D.C. on August 16-19.

The development environment will help Web Industries customers test new and emerging carbon fiber composite materials for qualification and use in the automated fiber placement manufacturing process.

The TCT/Interplas exhibition will be held at the NEC, Birmingham, from September 27th to 29th.

During SIGGRAPH 2011, Kodama and Offload Studios will be demonstrating a new browser-based 3D creator.

The free, fully featured DesignSpark PCB tool, which has been the key driver for visitors to the online community, has logged in excess of 100,000 downloads since its introduction one year ago.

Pharmapack in Paris is Europe’s recognized event for senior managers and engineers involved in R&D, design, development, purchase and procurement of packaging and drug delivery devices.

Autodesk Simulation CFD software helps automate fluid flow and thermal simulation decision-making for designs, while eliminating costly physical prototyping cycles.