Tool MetalFab desktop laser system cuts 10mm steel at 400mm/s and welds with handheld precision, shipping July 2025 from $4k ...

Structural applications of steel have long made use of elongated beams with carefully designed profiles, whose geometry gives them specific mechanical properties. Nowadays, the variety of cutting and ...

Spanning a wall in a separate area is a large automatic storage and retrieval system that feeds multiple lasers and stores ...

Something is quietly shifting in Maryland’s industrial landscape. After decades of outsourcing, manufacturing is showing signs of coming home, and precision technology is at the center of this ...

There are limits to what you can do with an FDM printer to make your parts stronger. It really comes down to adding more plastic, like increasing wall thickness or boosting up the infill percentage.

A tidy workshop is much more likely to be a happy workshop, and one that better supports the practice of making. Organisation is key to maintaining tidiness over time, and for that, you need storage. ...

Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship.