One of the biggest challenges facing widespread adoption of metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) in critical industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical devices is the issue of Qualification and Certification (Q&C). As AM technology matures and more complex components are built, there is a greater emphasis on developing [...]
We are hiring! VEXTEC is seeking enthusiastic, hardworking, and self-motivated applicants to be a part of our engineering analysis team. If the terms Metal Additive Manufacturing, AM, 3D Printing, ICME, Computational Fatigue Modeling resonate with you, we are interested in speaking with you. Selected as America’s Most Promising Company [...]
Recognizing the need to maintain competitive technological advantage against adversaries, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has been organizing a strategy to implement additive manufacturing (AM) – also known as 3D printing – across its vast enterprise. Though AM technologies are varied in their materials and methods, they can [...]
The U.S. Air Force Office of Small Business Programs is dedicated to advancing the contributions of small businesses to the Air Force. This month, the AFOSBP spotlighted VEXTEC and our work in Additive Manufacturing (AM) since winning a 2019 Air Force Technical Executive Officer (TEO) Pitch Day award. The [...]
VEXTEC is honored to be part of this year’s AIAA SciTech Forum (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). As the world’s largest aerospace technical society, AIAA’s annual SciTech Forum and Exposition is the preeminent event for aerospace research and technology. The 2021 event was originally scheduled to be [...]
Conventional manufacturing suffers from a lack of innovation for one very obvious reason: Everything’s been tried before. Manufacturers already know what works and what doesn’t, so there’s little incentive to experiment — especially when it comes to new materials for product development. With additive manufacturing, that situation reverses. Manufacturers [...]
If you took apart a brand new aircraft piece by piece, you’d likely find numerous items created through additive manufacturing: cabin parts, engine components, air ducting, brackets, and many more. Manufacturers already use 3D printing and various types of additive manufacturing (AM) to expedite the design and build process [...]
Designers employ the additive manufacturing process and 3D printers for rapid prototyping — to turn ideas into objects as soon as possible. They don’t use them for much else, though, particularly in terms of production. Why is that? To answer that question, one only needs to look at the [...]
Not long ago, additive manufacturing was just a concept — and 3D printers mainly took up space in university laboratories. But take a look now. Additive manufacturing technologies are now priority investments for Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturers. There is still work to do before these approaches “transform” [...]
VEXTEC’s recorded webinar presentation, entitled “ICME Methods for Fatigue Performance Prediction of Metal AM Components”, is now available on-demand in the America Makes archive on YouTube. […]