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 3D Printing Success Story: 3D Printing Project Yields Quick Results
                        April 13, 2018Based in Jackson, Mississippi, United Plastic Molders (UPM) is a full-service custom injection molding and tooling provider with complete design and machining
 Manufacturing: It’s Unbelievably Exciting and Nothing Like the Past!
                        October 7, 2016The revolution will not be televised—but it will be digitized!   Taken from a famous poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron first recorded in 1970, this was a
 Additive Manufacturing Equals Excitement
                        September 7, 2016This article originally appeared on the NIST Taking Measure blog . Guest blog post by Jarred Heigel.   I research additive manufacturing, which some people
 Enlightening Enterprise 3D Printing
                        July 8, 2016Enterprise 3D printing is ascending the Slope of Enlightenment. Gartner 1 placed it there on its Hype Cycle curve in 2013 and it has been marching toward the
 Additive Manufacturing Adds up in Many Ways
                        May 13, 2015Rapid prototyping using technologies that build parts layer by layer, aka additive manufacturing or 3D printing, has been around for a couple of decades. It is
 Getting Uncle Sam’s Help on 3D Printing Projects
                        February 4, 2015Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, provides cost-effective solutions to vexing industrial problems. The series of tests and evaluations against
 Plotting the Future of 3D Printing
                        November 25, 2014Additive manufacturing (AM) is hurtling into its wide and wonderful future. Right now heavy attention is being given to the promise AM offers to toy and
 A Glimpse of the Maker Movement
                        February 7, 2013Imagine if you had had the chance to be in room in the mid-70’s attending presentations from the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? I believe that maybe 20
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