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A Day in the Life of a Materialise Project Engineer

Aura Farrando
January 10, 2020
A Day in the Life of a Materialise Project Engineer

Problem-solving, together with her team, is both the key motivation as well as the challenge for Paula Roman. This Project Engineer at Materialise Manufacturing is passionate about 3D printing and has a resolute can-do attitude towards her job, two great ingredients for this role. 

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Our Customers’ Biggest Success Stories of 2019

Madeleine Fiello
December 10, 2019
Our Customers’ Biggest Success Stories of 2019

With 2019 wrapping up, we take a look back at the top case studies from our Manufacturing partnerships. From ski boots to suitcases, read on to learn how our team helped companies take their solutions to the next level with 3D printing.

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Materialise Helps Drive Agoria Solar Team through the Outback

Madeleine Fiello
October 11, 2019
Materialise Helps Drive Agoria Solar Team through the Outback

Imagine this: the sunny Australian outback, thousands of kilometers of road ahead of you, and over a year’s worth of your team’s hard work pushing you along toward the finish line.

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Quigley Design and Viridian Consultants Take End-Use Additive Manufacturing All the Way to the TCT Awards

Elizabeth Boorman
September 24, 2019
Quigley Design and Viridian Consultants Take End-Use Additive Manufacturing All the Way to the TCT Awards

“When you’re a designer, you’re only as good as the projects that come along for you to do.” Designer Kevin Quigley may be as modest as he is talented. Recently recognized by the TCT Group for their annual design awards, he and his Quigley Design team have shown just how skilled they are, creating a complex, highly innovative tool for nuclear decommissioning in partnership with Viridian Consultants.

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3DP&Me: “When customers can see exactly what’s possible and practical with additive, it leads to that 'Aha!' moment”

Elizabeth Boorman
September 17, 2019
3DP&Me: “When customers can see exactly what’s possible and practical with additive, it leads to that 'Aha!' moment”

In this interview, we talk to Jurgen Roekens, Materialise’s Design and Engineering Director, about how the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) process helps his clients produce exactly the right engineering solution that adds value in many different ways.

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Our New TPU Has Crisper Details, Smoother Surfaces, and Higher Accuracy

Elizabeth Boorman
September 09, 2019
Ultrasint TPU 90A-01

What makes Materialise’s new Ultrasint TPU 90A-01 a dream for 3D printing? Its reliability, durability and extremely flexible nature, according Giovanni Vleminckx, Research Project Manager in our process engineering unit. We recently sat down with Giovanni, who researches all new materials and technologies that we offer, to get an insider’s view on the ins and outs of the new TPU offering made using Multi Jet Fusion (MJF).

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Metal 3D printing vs CNC machining? There’s no competition when ‘and’ can be better than ‘or’.

Ingo Uckelmann
April 09, 2019
Metal 3D printing vs CNC machining? There’s no competition when ‘and’ can be better than ‘or’.

Reduced waste, production efficiency and functional gain driven by greater design freedom and flexibility. An increasingly familiar summary of the key benefits afforded by metal 3D printing. Meanwhile, high-volume repeatability, precision surface finishing, particularly in relation to tight tolerances, remain characteristics more closely associated with CNC machining. But what if there was no competition? No ‘either/or’?

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Taking the Plunge: the When, How and Where of Metal 3D Printing

Ingo Uckelmann
March 19, 2019
All about Metal 3D Printing

Now is the time to start considering 3DP, during early product design phases. Here’s what to expect – and what to avoid – when making your first steps in metal 3DP.

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How RapidFit Is Mastering the Automotive Tooling Value Chain

Radhika Dhuru
February 19, 2019
How RapidFit Is Mastering the Automotive Tooling Value Chain

This month, Materialise was awarded the label of ‘Factory of the Future 4.0’. So what does the Factory of the Future look like for automotive tooling? At RapidFit, managing director Filip Dehing says the Factory of the Future will be built on two key principles: mastering the complete value chain, and doing so digitally. In service of this vision, RapidFit’s latest addition to their high-tech workshop is a large-format 5-axis CNC milling machine, large enough for even cubing projects — quality inspection tools the size of an entire car — combined with Siemens NX CAM software.

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Want to Become a ‘Factory of the Future 4.0’? Don’t Go It Alone

Radhika Dhuru
February 12, 2019
Bart Van der Schueren, Materialise CTO, with the 'Factory of the Future 4.0' trophy

The industrial landscape is going digital. By 2020, PwC expects as many as 64% of manufacturing factories to use connected sensors, and expects the number of factories using 3D printing to double. And 2020 isn’t all that far off any longer. So where are we today? For Materialise, the emergence of Factories of the Future is not a phenomenon we’re waiting for. It’s a vision we’re realizing today. And last week, we were proud to be awarded the ‘Factory of the Future Label 4.0’ by Agoria and Sirris, after a rigorous selection procedure. But we’re not going the distance alone. Read on to discover why you can’t be a Factory of the Future in a vacuum.

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