The booming space industry is being driven by competitive mandates across the board: rockets that are smaller, more efficient, more inexpensive to produce. While major players in the industry like SpaceX and Blue Origin tend to garner the most headlines for their...
For those that work in traditional manufacturing or long-established heavy industries, metal additive manufacturing (AM) may seem like a force of disruption that’s challenging the ways of doing things. However, in order to meet the demands of industrial manufacturing...
Shortages of aerospace replacement-part inventories, high costs, and routine production delays in sourcing cast components, combined with the pandemic’s impact on normal aircraft/supplier production, shipping, and labor, have put the industry on the ropes. Not only...
The world of metal additive manufacturing (AM) can be complex no matter how seasoned a team is. Organizations face countless challenges integrating metal AM into their production workflows; but these are challenges that can be overcome with the guidance of an...
If you’re looking to manufacture a part, there are countless paths and processes to explore, each with their own benefits and pitfalls. When working in an industry like metal additive manufacturing (AM), it can be easier to draw distinctions between new technologies...
Being experts in the metal additive manufacturing (AM) industry comes with certain responsibilities; one of which is education. As advocates for this emerging technology, the team at Velo3D is heavily invested in engaging with peers in the industry and answering...