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No More Pancake Waste! How AM Transformed Bakery Production Lines of a Favorite Food

Pancake production lines were experiencing issues with waste before K3D stepped in. See how K3D combined its expertise with robust software from Materialise and industrial printers from Additive Industries to transform bakery production lines.

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A Day’s Worth of Work in 20 Minutes: Automating 3DP Process Parameter Development

Qualifying metal materials for additive manufacturing is typically a tedious, time-consuming process. But by automating workflows with Materialise Process Tuner, the Rosswag team saves more than 20 hours of engineering time each month. 

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Lattice Structures Enable Optimized Tooling Design for Smoby Toys

Smoby, the number one toy manufacturer in France, makes merchandise featuring the Lightning McQueen car. Some of their toys are produced by IPC, a research center with significant expertise in 3D printing technology. To produce miniature versions of Lightning McQueen, IPC decided to print a metal mold that would perform better than ever before thanks to cooling channels that follow the exact shape of the car.

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Smart Design, Smart Mobility: KLIO Contributes to South Korea’s Smart Mobility

Driving pleasure, ergonomics and safety have always been important for the automotive industry. A rising new trend is smart mobility. This means applying innovation and modern technology to stimulate sustainable mobility. One of the goals of smart mobility is to cope with the negative effects of mobility such as traffic jams, pollution and traffic casualties.

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Texturing 453 Surfaces of a Shoe Sole: Discover Texturing

Shoe manufacturers often use a master to cast the soles of the shoe. Instead of creating a mold for each type of sole, the bigger shoe manufacturers nowadays 3D print the soles. Manually assigning a texture to each surface area takes a lot of time. In addition, you end up with huge STL file sizes that your computer can no longer handle.

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The Spider Bracket: A Topology Optimization Project by Altair, Materialise and Renishaw

Materialise worked together with Altair and Renishaw to create an R&D spider bracket. The amazing thing about this bracket is that it contains hybrid lattice structures and is successfully 3D printed in Titanium. This design could not have been created with conventional manufacturing methods.

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Only Four Months from Idea to Working Metal Machine, Powered by Materialise Software

German company Frydryszik Manufacturing + Technical Services (FMTS) provides services to various industries – from constructing a textile factory to training personnel and installing hot-oil systems.

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The PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car: 3D Printing Acoustic Interiors

PEUGEOT was in quest of the perfect concept car: a fully-electric urban coupé wrapped up in sleek aesthetics — but above all, it had to sound perfect. To create an anechoic chamber in the car’s interior, and maximize the effect of the sound system, PEUGEOT turned to laser sintering.

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LIGHT Letters Make for the Heaviest Data Set We Ever Sent to a 3D Printer

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT was looking for a real showstopper to present itself at the LASER World of Photonics 2015: a set of 2-meter-tall 3D-printed letters, spelling out the word LIGHT. Behind the light print, though, lies a very heavy file and some clever design work.

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VTT Presents an Organic, Lightweight Hydraulic Valve

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland wanted to produce a strong and light hydraulic valve with minimal risk of leakage. Since this is an impossible challenge with traditional manufacturing technology, VTT decided to explore the possibilities of 3D Printing.

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A Lightweight Battery Structure: Born to Race

At the biennial World Solar Challenge this year, where solar-powered race cars made by university students race an impressive 3,021 km across Australia, the Belgian team’s car had a whopping average speed of 90km/h. One of their secret weapons? An inventive battery structure.

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Materialise Slicing Technology Enables Toyota’s Lightweight Car Seat

Toyota wanted to produce a lightweight car seat prototype with minimal volume and an optimal heat capacity. Not only was it challenging to design, but working with such a large file size was tough too. Fortunately, Toyota had Materialise’s engineering team and software expertise to work with.

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