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Additive Manufacturing – Where to Start?

Radhika Dhuru
May 25, 2020
Mindware 3D printing experts

Additive manufacturing has matured significantly over the last few years and now is a serious, near-mainstream manufacturing technology. But while it’s become a member of the establishment, it has not lost its disruptive potential. So what do you do if you want to explore using AM in your business? Do you treat it as just another way of making the same things or do you think bigger? We talk to Sven Hermans and Mathieu Cornelis from Materialise Mindware about what makes a great start into AM — and why you don’t have to be ashamed to ask for help.

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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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4 Reasons to Make Taurus Your New Automotive Prototyping Material

Radhika Dhuru
August 10, 2018
Jonas Van Eyck with automotive prototype produced in Taurus

Is Taurus the perfect 3D printing material for your automotive rapid prototypes? Jonas Van Eyck, Process Engineer at Materialise Manufacturing, digs into what makes an ideal tool for automotive prototyping. Here are the top 4 reasons why Taurus should be your pick for your next project, whether it’s visual prototypes or form-and-fit testing.

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Vehicle Development, Simplified: The RapidFit Smart Cube

Radhika Dhuru
January 31, 2018
London Taxi on the RapidFit Smart Cube

If you’re an automotive quality inspection engineer, chances are you’ve resigned yourself to a dizzying array of fixtures, development bucks and cubes to guide you through the vehicle development process. Clay models and surface release models for styling, prototype assembly bucks and blue bucks for engineering, fixtures for quality control — does that sound like your average toolkit? RapidFit has a radical solution. You can replace all those tools and fixtures with one: the RapidFit Smart Cube. Filip Dehing, RapidFit Managing Director, explains how that works.

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Japan’s Metal 3D Printing Pioneer Reduces Casting Lead Time by 90%

Kirsten Van Praet
July 24, 2017
Koiwai’s headquarters in Japan

Koiwai offers casting services for automobile companies and was one of the first companies to take full advantage of 3D Printing in Japan. Having invested in Metal 3D Printing since 2013, the company is a leading force of innovation in Japan’s metal manufacturing industry. How did they transform their casting process? How do they deal with the challenges of mass producing metal parts? And where do they see the real value of 3D Printing?

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World’s Fastest Electric Racecar Breaks Record at Zandvoort by 16 Seconds

Stephanie Benoit
June 27, 2017
World’s Fastest Electric Racecar Breaks Record at Zandvoort by 16 Seconds

The passionate students behind InMotion have an ambitious goal – to create the fastest electric formula racecar in the world. And after years of research and development, they are starting to see results. Last weekend, the team got to see their IM/e racecar in action at Zandvoort, the largest racetrack in the Netherlands, and managed to do the circuit in a record-breaking 1:48.371 seconds – that’s 16 seconds faster than the previous electric lap record!

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3D Printing Cuts Costs and Lead Times for Korean Car Parts Manufacturer

Stephanie Benoit
February 14, 2017
3D Printing Cuts Costs and Lead Times for Korean Car Parts Manufacturer

The automotive industry is an early adopter of 3D printing technology, initially benefitting from Rapid Prototyping to finalize new car concepts. SL Corporation is an automotive parts manufacturer based in Korea, who was able to cut their lead-times significantly and reduce costs by incorporating 3D Printing into their production.

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We’re on TV! French TV Program M6 Turbo Showcases Materialise Bringing PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car to Life

Radhika Dhuru
October 02, 2015
We’re on TV! French TV Program M6 Turbo Showcases Materialise Bringing PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car to Life

When French TV program M6 Turbo – a long-running show dedicated to the latest news in the automotive world – wanted to showcase PEUGEOT’s new FRACTAL concept car with 3D-printed interiors, they needed to show their viewers some visuals of how these parts were made and what 3D Printing actually looks like. So they decided to come over, and we were happy to show M6 Turbo around the 3D Printing production floor at Materialise HQ: Europe’s largest single-site factory for Additive Manufacturing. Take a look!

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Toyota's Lightweight Car Seat: A Bionic Design

Kirsten Van Praet
September 15, 2015
Toyota's Lightweight Car Seat: A Bionic Design

How do you produce a lightweight car seat prototype with a minimal volume and an optimal heat capacity? And how do you edit and 3D print such a large and complex file? Materialise has a solid reputation in the automotive industry, built on extensive knowledge in the production of large prototypes. In a quest to assist Toyota in creating a lightweight car seat, the software team added new features to our design enhancement software 3-matic, and developed a slice-based operations technology which is incorporated into the Build Processor software.

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Ready, Set, GO! Slot Car Racing at Euromold 2014

Charlotte Delaere
December 03, 2014
Ready, Set, GO! Slot Car Racing at Euromold 2014

The Materialise Slot Car Championship races over to Germany, a country that’s known around the world for its car manufacturing industry, for one last contest. More specifically, we went to Frankfurt for EuroMold, the world’s leading trade fair for design and application development, moldmaking and tooling.

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