The race is on to use 3D printing to produce small-series parts, on demand and on location, for industries from aerospace to automotive. At stake is the shape of a $400 billion market for spare parts ...

As materials in 3D printing extend beyond thermoplastics to include metals, composites, dielectrics, and ceramics, more manufacturers are using 3D printing to produce parts for final products in ...

Online e-procurement portal for marine spares and equipment ShipParts.com is taking part in a project to investigate how additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, could revolutionize ...

Thyssenkrupp and Wilhelmsen launched a 3D printing joint venture aimed at providing 3D-printed spare parts to the maritime industry. Mechanical parts wear out and break. It happens to cars, planes, ...

One of the drawbacks of owning a classic is the lack of original spare parts. The rarer the car, the more trouble an owner has in finding the right piece of equipment to replace a failed one. Luckily, ...

One of the U.S. Navy’s largest warships is now rocking a 3D printer, allowing the crew to quickly crank out replacement parts for drones. The service hopes that additive manufacturing technology will ...

Porsche has a huge supply of spare parts to keep its classic cars on the road, but it doesn't have everything. Supplies of certain components run out, and often, it's way too expensive to build a ...

3-D printing is no longer a new or innovative technology for the largest manufacturers in aerospace who have been creating solid objects from digital files for more than a decade, but what’s happening ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction plot: so-called three-dimensional printers are being used to fashion prosthetic arms and hands, jaw bones, spinal-cord implants — and one day perhaps ...

The trick to producing great 3D printing time-lapse animations is to ensure that the extruder has moved out of the frame each time a photo is taken — which usually requires OctoPrint to be controlling ...

British police have seized a 3D printer and components “suspected to be a 3D plastic magazine and trigger.” Police made what they’re calling a “milestone” discovery when executing a number of warrants ...