La JAXA a dévoilé, via un article publié dans une revue interne, qu'elle envisageait l'utilisation d'imprimantes 3D pour produire des pièces de satellites.
Tailor-made medical devices could give a more detailed picture of cardiac health and may be better at predicting and preventing problems.
It’s a poetic fact of biology that everyone’s heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet today’s cardiac implants—medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators—are basically one size fits all. Among other things, this means these devices, though lifesaving for many patients, are limited in the information they can gather.
One of the earliest adopters of digital dentistry was 3D printing giant Stratasys, which in 2012 merged with Israel’s Objet 3D, another major manufacturer of 3D printers. Both companies had already developed printers geared to the dental market, and after the merger, Stratasys headquartered its digital dentistry division in Israel.
Since then, the Israeli lab has been producing new products to enable dentists to take advantage of 3D printing techniques — the latest being a material called Veroglaze, which can be used to print crowns, bridge restorations, diagnostic wax-ups, and other tooth-related objects.
La multinationale teste avec une société à Eindhoven la possibilité d'équiper les restaurants des nouvelles imprimantes en trois dimensions pour produire des pâtes sur demande et de différentes formes. Des pâtes "conçues" par les nouvelles imprimantes en trois dimensions qui sont en train de révolutionner les techniques de production.
Many people are still struggling with the idea of printing solid, three-dimensional objects from a digital file. But 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is rapidly maturing from a novelty technology into an industrial-scale production method.
GE has been exploring additive technologies for more than two decades, and GE Oil & Gas, one of the company’s fastest growing units, has just announced that it will start 3D printing metal fuel nozzles for gas turbines and other components later this year. The company expects to move into production in 2015.
Ink-jet printing technology could be a way to build new tissue meant to restore vision to people suffering from common forms of blindness due to retinal degeneration.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge used a standard ink-jet printer to form layers of two types of cells taken from the retinas of rats, and showed that the process did not compromise the cells’ health or ability to survive and grow in culture. Ink-jet printing has been used to deposit cells before, but this is the first time cells from an adult animal’s central nervous system have been printed.
rotocast, petite société de la périphérie de Novara, a été récemment acquise par la société aéronautique Avio. A l'origine, Protocast était une entreprise d'équipements biomédicaux. Du dentier aux petites prothèses, la société a commencé à réaliser ses produits avec un système similaire à l'impression 3D. Sur un lit de poudre de métal, un faisceau d'électrons dessine la forme de la pièce à réaliser en fondant uniquement la zone définie par ordinateur. Ensuite, la machine recouvre le lit avec une nouvelle couche de poudre et le processus recommence. Chaque couche a une épaisseur de 40 microns : des milliers de passages sont nécessaires jusqu'à l'obtention de la pièce complète. Le processus prend moins de deux jours.
