Formlabs announces a leadership change with Rob Willett joining the board, while Carl Bass leaves after eight years. Willett, former CEO of Cognex, brings expertise in automation and machine vision, marking a strategic shift for the company aiming to expand its influence in professional additive manufacturing and prepare for a potential IPO.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing industrial 3D printing, enabling real-time controls, automatic corrections, and waste reduction. Through advanced sensing and predictive models, AI systems monitor and optimize parameters such as temperature and speed, improving production quality, efficiency, and reliability.

The integration between additive manufacturing and digital twin is revolutionizing the industry, enabling the transformation of virtual models into optimized physical components. This synergy reduces development times and costs, improves production efficiency, and allows for continuous innovation in sectors such as aerospace and energy.

Workflow automation in industrial 3D printing requires governance, standardized models, and clear control criteria. Only with these foundations can automation reduce times and costs, improving quality and repeatability.

Practical guide to transforming the metal factory into a single intelligent system: waste-free layout, shared data, AI that orchestrates additive, CNC, furnaces, and real-time quality control.

Industrial 3D printing is a reality: it requires gradual integration, advanced materials, digital workflows, and measured ROI to scale successfully.

3D scanning transforms real objects into editable and printable digital models, accelerating reverse engineering and production with precision up to 50 µm.

New 3D printing generates metal-ceramic composite in situ: components come out already resistant to wear, cutting times and costs of post-treatments.

AI transforms metal 3D printing from prototyping to serial production: real-time control, early defect detection, reduced costs and waste. Precision Additive launches ultra-fast LPBF platform, paving the way for critical aerospace and energy components.

3D printing eliminates molybdenum segregation in superalloys, ensuring homogeneous microstructures without expensive remelting processes. More reliable components for gas turbines and aerospace.

Two new patents bring 3D printing to shoe factories: soles up to 30% lighter thanks to optimized structures and multi-layer uppers without seams, customizable to measure. Production expected within 2-5 years.

Metal FFF prints functional metal components with powder+polymer filaments, followed by washing and sintering: economical, fast, suitable for low volumes and complex geometries in aerospace and automotive.