Rutland Plastics traditionally made approximately 100 new jigs and fixtures annually from aluminum on its CNC milling machines. Now, by taking full advantage of its Stratasys 3D printer, Rutland can reduce the cost of producing jigs and fixtures and reclaim its CNC machines exclusively for revenue generating processes.
Project to investigate hybrid approach to titanium manufacturing
What is this a hybrid of? Superplastic forming tends to be performed slowly as otherwise the behaviour is the hot creep that typifies hot...