Please join VEXTEC as we present this month’s TRX Webinar for America Makes (Technical Review and Exchange). The live webinar is titled “ICME Methods for Fatigue Performance Prediction of Metal AM Components”, and will be held Wednesday, September 23 2020 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern Time. UPDATE: The archived [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., April 28, 2020—VEXTEC® Corporation in Nashville, TN, has been awarded a small business innovative research (SBIR) contract, supported by Aerojet Rocketdyne, to develop an additive manufacturing certification framework for Air Force applications, with the objective of accelerating the qualification and adoption process for new additive [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – VEXTEC was selected to be an awardee at the Air Force’s inaugural Technical Executive Officer Pitch Day, held near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio on November 15, 2019. This marked the second Pitch Day award that VEXTEC garnered [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – Last week, VEXTEC was among a shortlisted group of small businesses that participated in the US Air Force’s Open Innovation Pitch Day for Rapid Sustainment. After VEXTEC’s Phase I work demonstrated the feasibility of a virtual [...]
VEXTEC is excited to again be presenting on fatigue in additive manufacturing at the preeminent turbine engine technology conference: PS&S 2019! The Propulsion Safety & Sustainment Conference (co-located with Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment – AA&S), brings together key thought leaders in manufacturing, research, and defense [...]
Simulation Software to Solve Certification Challenges in Additive Manufacturing In an article published for Aviation Week's MRO-Network.com, author Lindsay Bjerregaard, discusses VEXTEC's VPS-MICRO® simulation software and how it promises to reduce product development time and cost through optimization of design and manufacturing processes. Click here to read the full article.
In the first week of December 2018, VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee played host to the co-located meetings for the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and the working group for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS). These are the premier annual meetings related to the [...]
ASTM’s Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured (AM) Parts was held in the first week of November in Washington, DC. Being part of ASTM’s Committee Week, the symposium was sponsored by a number of ASTM Committees (F42 – Additive Manufacturing Technologies; E08 – Fatigue [...]
VEXTEC is excited to be participating in this year’s ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Parts. The symposium, co-sponsored by multiple ASTM Committees, takes place during ASTM Committee Week (November 4-9 in Washington, D.C.). […]
The largest time chunks in any product’s life cycle are in the design and engineering phases. This is because there are questions that need to be answered, both in how the product will perform and how the product itself will be made. Each of these [...]