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Italian sculptor and artist Andrea Salvatori has utilized his Delta WASP 40100 Clay 3D printer to create a variety of ikebana vases.

Ikebana refers to the Japanese art of flower arrangement that demonstrates the skill of a person who is practicing it. Salvatori drew inspiration from this disciplined art form to illustrate the inherent conflict between machine and human creation.

In this case, the artist has deliberately created a flawed design that disrupts accurate 3D prints of vessels with spherical ceramic inserts. Salvatori called his creation "Ikebana Rock'n'Roll".

Headquartered in Shanghai, INTAMSYS (INTelligent Additive Manufacturing SYStems) is one of the leading companies providing high-performance AM equipment, consumables, and software. It was founded by a team of experienced engineers who had conducted a great deal of research to be fully versed in high-tech equipment. The manufacturer has managed to establish a complete system of marketing and after-sales service that covers both Europe and the United States. INTAMSYS focuses on electronic manufacturing, aerospace, consumer products, automotive, scientific research, medical, and other industries, engaging in a variety of production activities — from functional prototyping to customized serial production.

The Polish company Sinterit has announced a new 3D printer based on selective laser powder sintering (SLS) technology. The Lisa X system features increased usable volume and ten times the performance of the previous Lisa Pro.

The new additive system is designed primarily for 3D printing with polyamide-12 powder with a vertical construction speed of up to 14 mm/h. It will take about 30 hours to process the whole build volume of 130 x 170 x 330 mm.

“Our third generation compact SLS 3D printer is made to speed up your innovation. We are still focused on delivering a whole SLS 3D printing solution, to make additive manufacturing useful and meaningful. With Lisa X this experience will be even better – faster prints and a bigger print volume answers the most common demands of the market,” commented Maxime Polesello, CEO of Sinterit.

The Israeli company Massivit released a new large-format additive system that prints with viscous photopolymer gels and is capable of building two products simultaneously, being also equipped with a real-time quality control system.

Sponsored by the Protolabs digital manufacturing provider, the 3D Printing Industry Awards returned for a fourth time with its traditional competition for the best 3D printed trophy design. The Awards were to have been held back in 2020, but the event was delayed due to the pandemic.

Established in 1953 and certified by Bosch Car Service twenty years later, German auto repair company Ludwig Degeling KFZ-Elektrodienst is currently engaged in supporting vehicles for urgent medical services, the police, local airports, fire companies, and other emergency institutions. Aside from that, the company provides professional customization of cars.

Two years ago, Ludwig Degeling faced the problem of weak capacity coupled with strong demand — it was decided to employ additive manufacturing technologies and obtain a 3D printer that should solve the issue. So, they chose the Flashforge Guider 2s to help the company improve the production.

Read on to learn about the experience of Ludwig Degeling KFZ-Elektrodienst in using the device.

This is a set of chapters for young engineers. We give practical advice and discuss goals, challenges and approaches used in modern software engineering.

Along with classical foundations this article contains original ideas of conceptualizing engineer's work with emphasis on bringing order to the situation and finding an insight. Engineering is approached as work in uncertainty with other people which requires special skills. Non-obvious complications regarding modern production in big companies are discussed.

This article is based on 15 years of experience in engineering and management in high-tech industries.

Technopolis “Moscow” held a meetup of its “Technoclub” for discussing development in the Russian market of additive technologies. 

UNIZ is a Chinese 3D printer manufacturer, headquartered in San Diego, known for resin 3D printers. It announced its new device, the SLASH 2 PLUS. It’s a larger version of the UNIZ SLASH 2, a very successful device. 

The new machine mainly targets dental applications, although it’s not limited to it. Larger build volume, impressive speed (up to 250 mm per hours, which is quite fast for resin 3D printers) and an 8.9-inch 4K LCD with a proprietary light engine are the most important specs of the device. 

With COVID-19 imposing a multitude of challenges and restrictions all over the world, the role of digital technologies seems to become important as never before. To help with the shortage of protective equipment, 3D printer users started to produce such objects with their devices. Read on to learn how people fight the pandemic using Flashforge products.

258 school students from the 5th to 7th grade were the winners of the third season of the National Technology Olympiad Junior. The exercises required theoretical knowledge of school subjects, as well as practical skills: understanding the basics of algorithms and programming, 3D modeling and printing, working with sensors and robotic components, data collection and analyzing.

The Zhejiang-based company QIDI has launched a brand new industrial-grade FFF machine designed for printing nylon and carbon fiber-reinforced filaments.

The Swedish company BLB Industries developed one of the largest and most productive 3D printers in the world — The BOX additive machine. The device operates on the widely used technology of fused deposition modeling of polymer materials (FFF/FDM), but it sports an important advantage: 3D printing is performed not with filaments but granules, which results in a low cost of products.

The DIVA startup received a 3 million Russian rubles (almost $40,000) grant as a part of the “Start” program by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE). It seems that this is going to be a competitor to the well-known Modix-120X 3D printer.

The PVS-Studio team writes articles on various topics. But we rarely make articles on how to interact with the analyzer. Let's fix it with an article about the PVS-Studio plugin for the Visual Studio 2022 environment.

Many people think that 3D scanning is mainly used in industrial settings: for metrological and reverse-engineering purposes. 

And just a few years ago, these two fields were the only ones where 3D scanning was used. But times changed, and scanners started being utilized in other sectors. Modern devices, such as the EinScan Pro 2X 2020 by Shining 3D, have proved that 3D digitizing can be implemented for many different things, ranging from small pet projects to professional reverse-engineering. The EinScan Pro 2X 3D scanners helped new users integrate 3D scanning and 3D design solutions into manufacturing for a lower price tag. This is why we can now see even more creative use cases for the technology. 

Now that the modern 3D scanners are more accessible and easier to use and maintain, some business segments started to integrate 3D scanning solutions into their production cycle (they could not before due to higher entry prices).

Schnider & Hammer AG use 3D scanning actively and in this article we will cover one unusual project that was brought to life with the help of the EinScan Pro 2X 3D scanner. 

Manchester General Hospital recently conducted an experiment that involved usage of the ScanTech iReal 3D scanner for facial repair and reshaping.

The iReal 3D scanner was also previously used for spine correction and implant preparation. 

The body scan results demonstrated a great potential use for healthcare, since the information about a patient's physical parameters is always in demand in the medical field. Such data is very important for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. X-ray imaging, CT, MRI – all of these methods are used for making 3D images of a patient’s internal organs. 

3D body scans are used for getting data regarding outer surfaces of a human body. The data can be used for customizing the solutions such as prosthetic arms, implants, rehabilitation body protectors and orthopedic supports.

The main questions regarding acquiring 3D data of a human body are how safe, comfortable, non-contact, accurate and efficient the scanning process is. Safety and comfortableness are two reasons to use 3D scanning for a human body, since no one will use harmful technologies.

When you have an IT, which supports all aspects of your organization automated performance and you have a firm confidence that IT executes well, there is always a chance that something could go wrong in technology or in related IT processes. Depending on complexity of IT environment varieties of risks scenarios could arise. This article as a summary of different faithworthy sources aims to help you in getting high level understanding on what could go wrong and how you can predict it in a more conscious way.

My name is Maxim Tornov and I have been working in various IT areas for a long period of time. Since then, for over 14 years I am working in the area of IT/IS risk management with focus on in IT/IS audits, internal control implementation and assessment.

I am sure that at the present the topic of Information Technologies risk management became more vital. Organization’s efficiency in IT risk management directly affects the achievement of various organization’s goals, goals which have dependency on IT, those goals may include reliability and efficiency of business processes, the organization's compliance with regulatory requirements, the integrity of financial reporting, and many others.

I sincerely hope that this material will be useful to you and may give you some new ideas that you can contribute to the benefit of your personal development and the development of your organization's risk management culture.

The Fusion3 3D printer manufacturer has released an advanced software solution under the name REACTOR powered by the REALvision slicing engine from the Denmark-based Create it REAL company.