Product Design & Assembly Features

William Hughes boxes clever with spot welded assembly for storage tray

William Hughes has come to the aid of an automotive seat manufacturer, providing a spot-welded grid assembly to complete an under-seat storage unit for a market leading city van.

To boldly go…3D printing reaches new frontiers within the medical sector

Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU) in France is leading the charge to improve success rates of complex kidney tumour removal surgery, using 3D printing technology. The CHU is currently one of the only hospitals worldwide to use a Stratasys J750 – the world’s only full-colour, multi-material 3D printer – for complex kidney tumour removal cases.

Cutting design-to-manufacture time of air intake for new supercar

Briggs Automotive Company (BAC), the British manufacturer of the recently launched Mono R, and Stratasys reveal the impact additive manufacturing is having on the design and production of the latest edition to the BAC elite supercar offering.

Venturing into metal additive manufacturing

The market for specialist metal additive manufacturing (AM) services is rapidly evolving as more companies realise the advantages which metal additive manufacturing offers over more traditional design and manufacturing techniques.

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CADSPEED invests in the fastest dental 3D printer on the market(29/10/2019)

Manufacturing dentures using 3D printing methods makes the process fast, flexible and simple and one company that is benefiting from this technology is CADSPEED, a CAD digital milling centre based in Hanover.
The role of friction welding processes in manufacturing today(25/10/2019)

The question that engineers and manufacturers ask when considering their production joining and manufacturing processes is – can we do this better, cheaper and more efficiently?
All Axis Robotics manufactures custom robot arm end-effectors(26/09/2019)

MakerBot revealed that All Axis Robotics is implementing the MakerBot METHOD manufacturing workstation into its automation processes to produce custom tooling parts for its legacy machines as well as customers.
WDS is helping to keep the rail industry on track(13/09/2019)

The rail system underpins much of the UK economy, enabling people to travel and freight to be transported. It employs about 120,000 people directly and many more in the supply and support network. Maintaining it is a major undertaking that requires the continuous efforts of many companies.
Fasteners and fixings to fix the construction crisis(02/09/2019)

The UK’s construction industry is seemingly on the cusp of crisis point, with many different factors causing projects to slow and impact efficiency. Vincent Matthews, Marketing Manager at SFS, discusses how fasteners and fixings can raise productivity once again and help keep construction work on track.