Alex Huckstepp“Software for Hardware” is Heating Up!The landscape of software solutions for developing and manufacturing hardware is rapidly expanding. We’ve never seen so many promising…4 min read·Mar 19, 2024--4--4
Alex Huckstepp3D Printing Companies Are Dying…“More organizations die of indigestion than starvation” — David Packard10 min read·Dec 6, 2023--3--3
Alex Huckstepp3D Printing SoftwareEffectively implementing 3D printing in a production environment requires software tools for design, simulation, pre-processing…4 min read·May 21, 2020----
Alex HucksteppThe 3D Printing Industry Will Be ReshapedAfter more than a decade of economic growth, we have entered a recession. Many companies are already switching to survival mode…4 min read·May 4, 2020----
Alex HucksteppPowder Bed Fusion (PBF) — What you need to knowPlease click here to read full article6 min read·May 8, 2019----
Alex HucksteppCan Metal Additive Manufacturing Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?Metals production, from mining ore through manufacturing parts, accounts for 7% of our global energy use. While metal additive…7 min read·Mar 27, 2019----
Alex HucksteppMetal Additive Manufacturing vs CNC Machining“We use AM where it best makes sense for performance reasons, for schedule reasons, for cost reasons.“ Leo Christodoulou, Chief…5 min read·Feb 28, 2019----
Alex HucksteppEconomics of Metal Additive ManufacturingCost is the largest issue gating adoption of Metal AM in production. Very little has been published on the costs of metal AM, and what has…5 min read·Jan 31, 2019----
Alex HucksteppProcess Steps in the Metal Additive Manufacturing WorkflowA production manufacturing tool does not operate in isolation; it is tightly integrated into the upstream and downstream processes, and is…2 min read·Dec 13, 2018----