SME: Essentium’s 3D Printing Helps Texas With Curbing COVID-19 November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 | The Essentium Team Share Today, manufacturers have pivoted to produce the critical supplies and equipment necessary to battle COVID-19 at a rate never seen before. SME’s Humans of Manufacturing Heroes Edition tells the stories of the teams, companies and partnerships adapting to produce the tools needed to fight this global pandemic. Like many manufacturers, Essentium Inc. looked at ways it could respond to COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus. “The pandemic was starting to hit,” said Blake Teipel, Essentium’s CEO and co-founder. “It was starting to ramp up. We were looking at postings online. There were various entities trying to print face masks and parts for ventilators.” From Essentium’s standpoint, the question was, “What can we do for manufacturing to really make a difference?” Read More: SME Share
Today, manufacturers have pivoted to produce the critical supplies and equipment necessary to battle COVID-19 at a rate never seen before. SME’s Humans of Manufacturing Heroes Edition tells the stories of the teams, companies and partnerships adapting to produce the tools needed to fight this global pandemic. Like many manufacturers, Essentium Inc. looked at ways it could respond to COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus. “The pandemic was starting to hit,” said Blake Teipel, Essentium’s CEO and co-founder. “It was starting to ramp up. We were looking at postings online. There were various entities trying to print face masks and parts for ventilators.” From Essentium’s standpoint, the question was, “What can we do for manufacturing to really make a difference?” Read More: SME
The Essentium Team November 23, 2020 Forbes: A Look How This Texas Startup Is Helping The Air Force Use 3D Printing To Replace Parts A Texas-based startup with $22.1 M in funding helps the U.S. Air Force 3D print replacement parts. Elisa Teipel, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer and Co-founder of Essentium said that more than 10,000 replacement part requests are delayed or unfilled each year despite a willingness to pay premium prices. Read More
The Essentium Team November 23, 2020 Additive Manufacturing: 3 Design Techniques for High Speed Extrusion 3D Printing “High Speed Extrusion” (HSE) is Essentium’s rapid deposition process for 3D printing polymer parts at production speeds. It is fused filament fabrication (FFF), but the speed means even the design considerations appropriate to FFF may not be sufficient for this process. Tom Mulholland describes the design considerations for HSE. Read More
The Essentium Team November 22, 2020 Manufacturing Tomorrow: 3D Printing Will Soon Be a Game-Changer in the Manufacturing Industry – Here’s Why Until now, manufacturers have been dipping their toes and getting familiar with AM technology, using it to create prototypes rather than final products. But that is changing. It’s only a matter of time before AM makes the leap from prototyping to manufacturing on the factory floor. And this leap will happen a lot sooner than most people think. Read More
