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3D Printing

Laser Metalz: Bionic Design Is The Next Frontier For 3D Printing

Tomas Kellner
Yari Bovalino
June 08, 2017
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, which makes the world’s largest industrial printer for metals. His printers can already produce delicate jewelry and medical implants as well as massive engine blocks for trucks. They even started printing “bionic” components for planes. “Bionic design allows you to adapt structures from nature and find the most optimal solution,” says Daniel Hund, Concept Laser’s marketing director.
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3D Printing

GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as jewelry, dental implants, planes and jet engines.
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3D Printing

Fit To Print: See Firsthand How GE's Additive Business Is Changing The Way We Make Jet Engines, Jewelry And More

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2017
A few years ago, a team of eight GE Aviation engineers decided to give additive manufacturing a whirl and 3D print a helicopter engine. Using a laser beam to weld together hair-thin layers of a metal powder, they combined 900 different parts into just 14, including one engine segment that used to have different 300 components. The printed parts were also 40 percent lighter and 60 percent cheaper.
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The Future of Work

GE Healthcare's 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And Much More)

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2017
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a small boy, he watched one of the Wright brothers’ first attempts at flight in nearby Kitty Hawk, a feat that ultimately ended up changing how we live. Now Beacham himself is in the vanguard of a revolution, one that is changing how we design and make things. It’s called additive manufacturing, which includes technologies like 3D printing.
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3D Printing

The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push In Germany

Tomas Kellner
April 24, 2017
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing to a new dimension, using it to liberate designers and reinvent manufacturing. Herzog is the founder of Concept Laser, one of the leading makers of industrial 3D printers.
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3D Printing

Small Wonders: 3D-Printing ‘Microfactories’ Are Coming To Abu-Dhabi, Dubai

Tomas Kellner
April 01, 2017
“Micro” isn’t a word that comes to mind when people talk about the United Arab Emirates, the home of the world’s tallest building, the largest man-made island and other grand attractions. But it points to the country’s future as a manufacturing and design hub. GE Additive, GE’s new business focusing on advanced technologies like 3D printing, said last week it would open the first two “microfactories” in the capital Abu-Dhabi and Dubai.
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The Future of Work

The Future Of Manufacturing: Global Is Local

Philippe Cochet Svp Chief Productivity Officer GE
March 30, 2017

Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.

Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive technologies are transforming manufacturing and growing productivity.

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The Future of Work

Better Watch Out! This Italian 3D Printing Workshop Is Taking A Leaf From Saint Nicholas

March 09, 2017

Every December, pilgrims from all over the world descend on the southern Italian seaport city of Bari to celebrate Saint Nicholas and visit the Basilica di San Nicola. The church is the final resting place of the famous saint known by millions of children for, among other things, his magical workshop staffed with elves who can make pretty much anything.

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Put It Into Print: The Future Of Manufacturing In America (And Everywhere Else) Is Emerging, Layer By Layer, At This GE Plant

Tomas Kellner
March 01, 2017
Who would’ve thought that Pittsburgh and its environs would be a paradise for tech geeks?
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Annual Report

Jeff Immelt: Leading A Digital Industrial Era

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
February 27, 2017
GE released its 2016 Annual Report today. It includes a letter to shareowners written by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. In the letter, Immelt shares his thinking about GE’s performance and role in the world. Here is a note he sent to employees as well as a link to the Annual Report:
 
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