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3D Printing

How 3D Printing Could Bend The Cost Curve In Healthcare

John Menna Ups
May 31, 2017

Imagine if any patient could be at the top of any donor recipient list. As Baby Boomers reach their retirement years, policymakers and leaders in medicine are scrambling to find better health outcomes with lower expenses. Additive manufacturing could provide a real breakthrough in treating patients around the world, writes John Menna, Vice President of Global Strategy for Healthcare Logistics at UPS.

 

 

Even as people around the globe enjoy longer, healthier and more productive lives, the rising cost of healthcare threatens to impede such progress.
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3D Printing

3D Printing Gets Fashionable

Danit Peleg
May 05, 2017

Designer Danit Peleg describes how she revolutionized the fashion industry with 3D-printing technology.

 

Today’s shopper expects seamlessness and efficiency — and new technologies are helping retailers deliver on these expectations in new ways.

From virtual fitting rooms to clothing subscription boxes, the fashion industry is evolving to help shoppers find a perfect style and fit with little hassle.
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3D-Printed Replicas Of Organs Give Doctors New Insights

Yasuo Matsunaka
January 06, 2017

Dr. Maki Sugimoto created lifelike organ models with 3D imagery and printing to diagnose and treat patients with more information. For example, he thought surgeons could better understand a tumor's shape and position to make an incision. Sugimoto didn't realize that the first test of this technology would be used when he sustained a life-threatening spinal injury.

 

 

 
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Chris Fox: 3D Printing to Get to Mars

Chris Fox Manufacturing Net
December 18, 2014
On a recent trip to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the aerospace organization provided some insight to the inner-workings of spacecraft manufacturing. At the Marshall Space Flight Center, they specialize in what can best be described as, the guts of a rocket.
 

Prototyping a Social Movement with a 3D Printer

Gared Jones Points Of Light
July 29, 2014
I arrived in Lagos a few weeks ago as part of Points of Light’s partnership to support GE Garages Nigeria, an initiative through which GE is using the leading edge of its business—principles of open innovation and technologies in advanced manufacturing—to spur job growth and build entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
The launch platform in which I participated was a pop-up, three-week innovation and manufacturing center where aspiring makers, entrepreneurs, and students could go to develop new skills and learn about advanced manufacturing technologies.
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Aviation Proves Newest Territory for 3D Printing

July 16, 2014
3D printing has for years been applied to small scale manufacturing processes, tackling anything from creating small-scale industrial parts to assembling entire automobile frames.  Most recently, 3D printing has been introduced into the personal consumer market, with affordable printers that allow everyday people to manufacture and replicate mechanical designs of their own.
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FDA Drilling Down on Promise and Problems of 3D Printing

June 02, 2014
For all the promise that 3D printing holds for manufacturing, the technology is fraught with uncertainty when it comes to the medical field. Looking to quell some of that concern the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day workshop to discuss the future of regulating 3D printed devices and procedures.
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Welcome to the Era of the Hardware Startup

Beth Comstock GE
February 06, 2014
As new technologies go, 3D printing is a bit of an attention hog. In recent years, we’ve seen printers with increasingly amazing capabilities: from ones that extrude plastic to create small objects to machines with lasers that melt metal powder into amazingly intricate jet engine parts.
But the cool factor of 3D printing sometimes obscures a movement in manufacturing that could have an even bigger impact: platforms that help us share ideas, suppliers and marketplaces. That emerging network is why I’m optimistic that 2014 marks the rise of the hardware startup.
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