One of our more frequent correspondents writes with advice for anyone designing equipment or tooling for a particular machining project: 1. Before starting to design a new instrument for any technical ...

3D-printed sacrificial tooling, or more specifically 3D-printed molds and mandrels, can enable manufacturers to rapidly and cost-effectively create complex composite parts with geometries that would ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

“Man is a tool-using Animal....Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 As a design manager, I am acutely aware of how ...

Business “uncertainty” has been challenging the managers and executives of virtually every organization during the past year, or even longer. The best of them address these challenges by emphasizing ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the process of designing ...