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Additive Manufacturing Trends to Know in the Electronics Industry in 2020

Additive manufacturing has its roots in the 1980s and has gradually matured into a formidable set of technologies. What was once viewed as a technology for building plastic widgets in college dorm rooms is now being used in a variety of industries, including aerospace, defense, mobile/IoT, and medical devices. 

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Additive Manufacturing and Quality Control: What Electronics Engineers Should Know

Component traceability, in-lab testing, and inspection of finished products are critical aspects of quality control for electronic products. Large and small electronics OEMs in highly regulated industries must contend with the same set of quality standards on new products. Supply chain volatility, broadened product lines, and more advanced electronic designs place greater pressure on quality...

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The Advantages of Designing a Nonplanar Antenna with Additive Manufacturing

IoT devices, new mobile devices, UAVs/UUVs, unique systems in aerospace and defense—all of these products and many more now require wireless communication in one or more frequency bands, often simultaneously. This means each of these systems will need one or more antennas to operate in their intended environments. This is in addition to the large...

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Additive Manufacturing vs. Traditional Manufacturing for Low-Volume Electronics Production

When you think of low-volume production for electronic components and devices, you likely think of producing a single panel of prototype PCBs or a single wafer of ICs. Compared to ICs, PCBs require much greater customization, are typically produced in lower volume and may be created in several variants throughout a product’s lifecycle. Each design...

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The Dutch Ceramic Association Works With Admatec

Formatec manufactures products from ceramic materials, such as alumina, zirconia, and silicon nitride, and develops new ceramic materials.

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Introducing The Admaflex 300

The Admaflex 300 is the world’s first flexible and open system for high volume ceramic and metal 3D printed parts.

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Additive Manufacturing’s Supply Chain Impact for PCB and Electronics Development

Anyone that has spent a significant amount of time working in the electronics industry knows that the components landscape can change in an instant. Large fabrication houses can easily buy out component stocks when new products need to be produced in an instant, and component manufacturers can have trouble keeping up with rapid changes in...

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The 3D Inkjet Printing Process Explained

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Additive Manufacturing with Nanoparticles for Electronics Development

Additive manufacturing and its core process of 3D printing are not always seen as being related. 3D printing is normally viewed as being used to fabricate plastic mechanical parts from 3D CAD models, but 3D printing is used in many industries for the fabrication of metal components. Groups of processes, like powder bed fusion (PBF),...