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Last week, Fabrisonic welcomed another SonicLayer™ 4000 machine to our production metal 3D printing facility.  Shoehorning a nine-ton machine into place took a bit of skill, but Meyer’s Movers did a great job. We made a video that showcases all the fun HERE. Fabrisonic’s production machines start out life as a commercial 3 Axis CNC
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Support materials have always been important in the world of metal 3D printing to enable printing complex overhangs and intricate internal features.  When it comes to Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM), which is obviously the coolest of all the metal additive forms, many fillers have been tried.  Some past examples are ice, rock candy, and even
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The online publication 3DPrint.com is full of everything 3D printing and more.  They have a great ongoing series highlighting the ladies driving the 3d printing revolution.  This week, they chose to highlight our very own Hilary Johnson.  She took a very unusual route to get here and has some advice for anyone willing to listen. 
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Mark Norfolk, President of Fabrisonic, recently had a video interview with Jim Anderton on Engineering.com.  They chatted about Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) and how it’s different from other forms of additive such as low temperatures.  Mark touches on how the process works and some of the advantages such as embedding electronics to measure strain or
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Not too long ago, Fabrisonic had a booth at the 2017 RAPID in Pittsburg.  For those who don’t know, RAPID is a large 3D printing tradeshow.  They move around to a different city every year in the month of April or May. While there, Fabrisonic got noticed by 3DPrint.com among other companies with cool technologies. 
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) has grown drastically in the last ten years in both plastics and metals.  ASTM F42 has defined several categories of AM processes.  Fabrisonic’s sheet lamination process, also known as Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) and 3D metal printing, is the only metal example under ASTM’s “sheet lamination” category .   However, sheet lamination
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There is a new team in the UAM family.  Dr. James Gilbert, of the Mechanical Engineering department at Purdue University, facilitated the purchase of a SonicLayer R200 UAM machine.  The small scale UAM system was installed in March and is already contributing to student projects.  Dr. Gilbert’s work in ultrasonic additive manufacturing ranges from understanding
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Last week Fabrisonic was selected as a finalist for the CTMA Technology Award.  The CTMA program, created in 1998, is a joint Department of Defense/NCMS effort promoting collaborative technology validation, demonstration, and transition within DoD. Its objective is to ensure American troops and their equipment have the most up-to-date and best-maintained platforms, technologies and tools
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Crain’s Cleveland Business has been writing about Fabrisonic, and we love and appreciate it!  So, we thought we would pass along the article. It covers our unique 3D printing process and a Cuyahoga Falls company that we partner with to help make the machines called Ultra Tech Machinery. It just goes to show that there
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Here at Fabrisonic, we support the role of women in today’s world.  Woman can bring a different perspective and way of thinking that can be extremely beneficial for every company, large or small, for- profit or non-profit. Since we are a small technology start-up company, we encourage young ladies to get involved in Science, Technology,
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