A new engineering graduate who joins the workforce of a manufacturing company needs time to learn the engineering design methods and practices which differentiate the company from its competitors. The type of knowledge that the new engineer acquires in order to become productive is knowledge based, in the sense that it is not acquired by formal training in the classr

To many people, the term 3D printing means that a product is built by squirting out blobs of plastic, or by laying down successive layers of material to be fused or bonded together into a product. The fact is that 3D printing technology has advanced beyond the developmental stage, and it is now being used on the factory floor to make complex metal-based parts. For th

Because of CAD/CAM and 3D printing technology, significant and almost miraculous achievements have been reported for surgical procedures which involve hip replacement, knee surgery, prosthetics, and medical implants. Although it sounds incredible, the ability to print functioning body parts could happen in the near future. If indeed this turns out to be an achievement

A year ago, we blogged about the how CAD triggered a new wave of interest among the dental community  across the globe. Most of the benefits that CAD/CAM and 3D printing technologies have thus delivered within the past