October 21, 2021 | The Essentium Team Transport With Confidence: 3D Printed Custom Inserts for Sensitive Equipment These days, nearly every military operation requires the support of sensitive gear that must arrive on site in pristine condition. Examples include radar tracking equipment, unmanned drones and controllers, munitions and detonation devices, armament inspection tools, telecommunications systems, and many others. Read More
October 12, 2021 | The Essentium Team 3D Printed Production Parts: Solving for QMS is Possible with the Essentium HSE 3D Printing Platform Additive manufacturing (AM) was initially viewed as a prototyping technology — a very creative and cost-effective means for product engineers to experiment with various sizes, shapes, and types of materials. It was a great tool for innovation, but most early 3D printers lacked the speed, size, and accuracy required to 3D print production parts at […] Read More
September 30, 2021October 5, 2021 | The Essentium Team Developing for Extreme Conditions: 3D Printed Traction Cleats for Military Boots Join the United States Armed Forces (any branch) and part of the provided uniform is one pair of standard-issue combat boots. Designed for dry conditions, the boots’ composite rubber soles provide adequate footing for walking on concrete, asphalt, and packed dirt, but not so much when the terrain is covered in mud, slush, snow, or ice. Read More
September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 | The Essentium Team Additive Manufacturing & Aerospace: The Sky is the Limit Aerospace engineers are constantly pushing the envelope on aircraft design. Although the shape of a plane’s fuselage and wings haven’t changed much over the past few decades, the focus is now on squeezing every last drop of efficiency out of aircraft design. Read More
August 24, 2021September 1, 2021 | Blake Teipel How 3D Printing Can Save the World…and Maybe Your Life 3D printing is an enabling technology. It empowers manufacturers to make parts that are lighter, cheaper, and stronger. Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) are making things more repeatable, more ergonomic, more possible. Essentium is a trusted partner of the U.S. Department of Defense, and I have seen firsthand how shrinking the half-life of innovation using technologies […] Read More
August 10, 2021September 1, 2021 | The Essentium Team Best Materials for 3D Printing Flight-Ready Aerospace Parts We know that 3D printing in aerospace enables faster manufacturing of machine components and spare parts. It supports rapid prototype design and iteration and allows for parts to be made in any quantity and shape without excessive material waste. But AM’s biggest draw for aerospace is its ability to produce aircraft parts with equal strength […] Read More
July 1, 2021August 4, 2021 | The Essentium Team Essentium Rapid + TCT and FabTech 2021 Event Schedule The Essentium team is excited to attend two trade shows co-located in the McCormick Center this September, Rapid + TCT and FabTech, on September 13-16, 2021. We personally invite you to stop by booth #A1414 at Rapid TCT or booth #E7625 at FabTech and attend our sessions presented by our engineers and executives listed below. Read More
June 29, 2021August 11, 2021 | The Essentium Team Advantages & Examples of 3D Printing for Aerospace Applications As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial air travel is expected to increase rapidly. Demand indicates an order of nearly 38,000 new aircrafts will be built over the next 20 years. As a result, equipment manufacturers, designers, and suppliers need to find cost-effective solutions to quickly and efficiently produce these aircraft.1 Read More
June 29, 2021August 11, 2021 | The Essentium Team Additive Manufacturing’s Role in Aerospace AM will never completely replace conventional manufacturing in aerospace and it shouldn’t. There are just some parts that cannot be 3D printed; some materials that cannot substitute for titanium and steel. That does not mean there isn’t a role for 3D printing in aerospace. Rather, Essentium, Inc.® believes AM should be viewed as a complement to […] Read More
June 25, 2021August 11, 2021 | The Essentium Team High-Speed Extrusion Raises the Bar for Aerospace Tooling Aerospace engineers are constantly pushing the envelope on aircraft design. Although the shape of a plane’s fuselage and wings haven’t changed much over the past few decades, the focus is now on squeezing every last drop of efficiency out of aircraft design to go farther, faster, and higher while consuming less fuel, producing less CO2, and […] Read More
May 24, 2021June 1, 2021 | The Essentium Team Position Your Company for the Future of Manufacturing Historically manufacturers had to be innovative, efficient, and customer-centric to succeed. While these qualities still give manufacturers an edge over competitors, in the past year agility is what has truly set successful businesses apart. In response to changing consumer demands and unpredictable supply chain failures, companies that prepared to respond with agility stayed open, while […] Read More
May 11, 2021May 13, 2021 | The Essentium Team Five 3D Printer Modes, Unlimited Applications Essentium’s newest High Speed Extrusion (HSE™) machine, the HSE 280i HT 3D Printer, is the first industrial 3D printer to feature true independent dual extruders (IDEX), where each head is fully independent on both the X and Y-axis. This technology unlocks high-speed support printing, multi-material 3D printing, and more for a total of five 3D […] Read More
