ETMM Article | Feb 1, 2022 Materialise and Sigma Labs develop breakthrough technology to advance Metal Additive Manufacturing
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/41/fc/41fc456ff1ff8f30807924663e8df127/img-0942v1.jpeg "In industrial additive manufacturing, the production strategy must influence the design from the very beginning. (Source: Materialise)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/44/fe/44fe86a16c26c09bb363b3671bf0b930/0132847771v1.jpeg "CoreTechnologie (CT) points out that the 3D printing software 4D_Additive has been equipped with additional application possibilities. Here you can learn more about what the new version 1.8 can do – such as generating complex lattice structures or optimizing faulty data ... (Image:CT)")
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/28/20/28204a4592a69a8682bfbf9a8f7e1dc2/0132846993v1.jpeg "The health status of a lithium-ion battery changes with increasing aging. AI models can utilize characteristic changes in the charge and voltage curves to estimate the state of health. (Image:freely licensed)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/90/dc/90dc332e30a3e4bd3ff77646ed0633b7/0132833369v1.jpeg "Through a compromised repository of the widely used open-source tool LiteLLM, attackers were able to capture several terabytes of data and login credentials. Security company CloudSEK concludes, after analyzing the data, that the attack conducted in March of this year affected more than 2,000 companies, including major players like Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, and Deutsche Bahn. (Image:freely licensed)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/93/40/9340a3a1088dd79fce6bda5c73b7dd2f/0132818390v1.jpeg "Already in 1980, Intel exited the production of DRAM chips, and in 2022, the Optane series, manufactured using the 3D XPoint process, marked the company's last commercial venture in the field of memory technologies. However, in light of the memory crisis and the growing demand for fast memory chips, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan now appears to be considering a possible return to the memory business. (Image: Intel)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/41/fc/41fc456ff1ff8f30807924663e8df127/img-0942v1.jpeg?v= "In industrial additive manufacturing, the production strategy must influence the design from the very beginning. (Source: Materialise)")
:quality(80):fill(ffffff,1)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1928000/1928057/original.jpg?v= "The platform developed by Materialise and Sigma Labs eliminates one of the most common roadblocks for manufacturers interested in using metal additive manufacturing. (Materialise)")