Modern Machine Shop senior editor Matt Danford joins Julia Hider to discuss five trends in digital manufacturing that are playing out for both machining and 3D printing. 

This episode is brought to you by the Additive Manufacturing Conference at IMTS.

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Data Matters, Matt Danford’s Modern Machine Shop column covering Industry 4.0 in machining
• Matt’s column about Five 3D Printing Trends Mirrored in Machining
• HP’s Digital Manufacturing Trends Report
• Article about micro mold shop Accumold’s use of micro 3D printing for prototyping
• Advanced Precision Engineering, which uses a Markforged X7 desktop 3D printer to make custom robot grippers
• Podcast that discusses how Savage Automation uses 3D printing to make custom end of arm tooling for automation injection molding
• RAPID + TCT 2022 recap, with mention of the theme of collaboration, including Stratasys announcing the availability of third-party materials
• How machine monitoring platform MachineMetrics is gathering and using data from FANUC CNCs
• Hexagon’s latest acquisition of ETS, a QMS platform
• A defense manufacturer implements Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
• RPG, a machine shop that uses its Mark Two composite desktop 3D printer from Markforged to make custom workholding
• 3D printed CMM fixtures
• Example of 3D printed mold tooling with conformal cooling channels
• Polymer material takeback programs
• 6K’s process for turning metal scrap and chips into powders for 3D printing
• CoreLedger’s platform for secure AM file exchange using blockchain
• VeriTX’s platform that uses blockchain to validate AM defense parts and suppliers
• SyncFab’s platform for sourcing machined parts using blockchain
• Platforms for sourcing parts online
• Formlabs’ 3D printed nasopharyngeal swabs
• Protolabs’ platform being used to produce ventilator parts and facemasks early in the pandemic