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America Makes 2021 TRX Webinar Now On-Demand
In this America Makes TRX Webinar, VEXTEC and a special guest from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center discuss Qualification & Certification (Q&C) challenges facing the widespread adoption of metal AM in critical industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical devices. […]
A New Way Forward With Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Published November 2021 Featured Article: Webinar: Overcoming the Challenges of AM Part Q&C Using ICME Based VPS-MICRO® VEXTEC with a special guest from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will discuss Qualification & Certification (Q&C) challenges facing the widespread adoption of metal AM in critical industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical devices. As AM technology [...]
America Makes TRX Webinar Nov. 10 2021
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 rapid Q&C methods to be able to unlock the [...]
We Are Hiring! Analytical Engineer Position Available.
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 by Forbes Magazine, VEXTEC is the developer and provider [...]
What is the DOD Strategy for Additive Manufacturing?
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 be generally described as computer-controlled processes which create three [...]
Air Force Small Business Office Spotlights VEXTEC’s AM Work
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 award came on the heels of VEXTEC's successful completion [...]
VEXTEC Presenting at AIAA’s 2021 SciTech Virtual Event
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 held in our home city of Nashville, Tennessee; unfortunately [...]
How Additive Manufacturing Can Fuel Product Development
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 are less knowledgeable about the capabilities of 3D printers [...]
Additive Manufacturing Is Sparking an Aerospace Revolution
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 — even if they’re not yet using it to [...]
How Technology Can Aid the Additive Manufacturing 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 current limitations of additive manufacturing technology. These solutions are [...]
Taking a Critical Look at the Additive Manufacturing Process
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” manufacturing as we know it, but there’s an undeniable [...]
VEXTEC’s America Makes TRX Webinar Now Available On-Demand
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. […]
The State of the Additive Manufacturing Industry
If you haven’t been tracking the state of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry closely, you may have missed some exciting recent developments. Additive manufacturing applications and the technologies that power them have come so far so fast, that Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturers across several industries are now deploying them. […]