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By Henry Cialone President & CEO, EWI Additive manufacturing. Though many manufacturers have heard this term, the phrase may not be well or widely understood. I'd like to change that. So let's talk about what additive manufacturing (AM) is and what it can do. What Is AM? When we think of "manufacturing," we typically think...

In-situ process monitoring has been around for a while in most manufacturing industries – from the trained eye of a supervisor to an automated manufacturing execution system. Additive manufacturing (AM) is no different; it uses sensors to provide both a better understanding of the process and valuable data that can be analyzed to infer the...

Since introducing its new VDA tight radius testing capability with digital image correlation (DIC) in Winter 2021, the EWI Forming Center has conducted further research test applications of the test on a variety of high-strength materials. A recent study evaluated test switch-off criteria and applied the results in finite element analysis (FEA). This work is...