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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. […]
Webinar on ICME Methods for Fatigue Performance Prediction of Metal AM Components
Published September 2020 Earlier this year, VEXTEC became a Silver Member of America Makes, which is the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. America Makes is the nation’s leading collaborative partner in AM and 3D Printing (3DP) technology research and innovation. And, on September 23 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT, VEXTEC will be presenting in the America Makes [...]
VEXTEC Presenting at ASME’s AM Medical Virtual Event
VEXTEC is proud to present at the 2020 ASME AM Medical Virtual Event – Additive Manufacturing & 3D Innovations. Dr. Bob Tryon, VEXTEC’s Chief Technology Officer, will be presenting on “Computational Tools to Accelerate Manufacturing Development” on Wednesday, October 28 from 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM. The presentation is part of the “Metals” track [...]
The Economics of Additive Manufacturing for End-Usable Metal Parts
The average metal part requires a lengthy series of “normal” and “special” processing steps. Materials must go through machining or casting to take on their shape (normal processes) before potentially undergoing heat treating, chemical milling, non-destructive inspection, shot peening, or coating (special processes). Finally, parts must be certified to meet industry or client quality specifications. Given the incredible [...]