Additive/3D Printing

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EDGE Awards 2026 Winners And Honorees

Congratulations to the standout product innovations driving progress in engineering this past year.

Sept. 18, 2026

3D-printed jet engine model

Additive/3D Printing

Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace and Defense: Process Selection, Materials Qualification and the Engineering Path to Flight-Ready Hardware

July 20, 2026

Additive manufacturing creates internal channels, lattice structures, and complex geometries impossible with traditional machining or molding. The tradeoff is longer production time.

Additive/3D Printing

Five Design Tradeoffs When Using Additive Manufacturing for Production

June 1, 2026

Digital Manufacturing + MedTech

Protolabs Highlights a Digital Manufacturing Playbook for MedTech

April 16, 2026

Dial-in Radiopacity

Advancing Medical Device Design with Tunable Radiopaque 3D Printing

April 1, 2026

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2026 EDGE Awards Call for Submissions

March 24, 2026

Producing complex aerospace parts, like the turbine blades on this jet engine, requires a hybrid approach, combining additive manufacturing’s design freedom with the tight tolerances, controlled surface finishes and consistent geometric accuracy that subtractive manufacturing (e.g., CNC) provides.

Additive/3D Printing

From Printer to Spindle: How Aerospace Components Actually Get Made

Feb. 27, 2026

Mike McLeod

Mike McLeod Named Senior Editor at Machine Design

Feb. 2, 2026

3D printer at work

Additive/3D Printing

Setting the Stage at MD&M West 2026: Additive Manufacturing on Demand

Feb. 2, 2026

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