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DAM London aims to 'revolutionize how manufacturing is done'

London | November 2022

Nate Petre won a grant from NASA to 3D print surf boards from seaweed and went on to found circular economy tech startup Distributed Additive Manufacturing (DAM) in London. 'The question used to be, is 3D printing ever going to catch up to traditional manufacturing? More and more the question is, does it have to?'

Fast Forward Rewind helps clients understand what's possible in early stages

London | October 2022

Industrial designer Gregory Epps helps clients understand markets and customers to deliver successful product releases. 'When you know the project is possible and know the customer wants it, you can then work out how to bring those two things together.'

Mayku expands on groundwork 3D printing with pressure and vacuum formers

London | August 2022

London-based startup Mayku develops desktop versions of mass manufacturing processes. 'Manufacturing will be more evenly distributed,' founder Ben Redford believes. 'We want to democratize manufacturing and put it in more places.'

'Our supply base is a big source of what is going on out there'

Toronto | December 2019

At the opening panel at DFM Summit #21 in Toronto, September 2019, Timothy Lytle (Arc'teryx), Steve Keilhauer (Keilhauer), Byron Leclair (fluidconcepts) and Lee Fletcher (Fig40) discussed how material choices factored into their product development process. 'We do rely on our suppliers coming in and showing us what they are developing,' Byron Leclair said.

Dystil Racing intended to make 3D printed race parts for motorcycles

Toronto | September 2019

Industrial designer Miles Keller was 'redesigning a part one day, printing it overnight and having it on a motorcycle the next day'.

'We involve potential manufacturers in optimizing the design'

London | June 2018

Orlach Design works for startups as well as bigger clients like LG and Panasonic. 'Clients will price down every component,' says Dejan Orlac. 'Within that space you need to find a design, an identity and a process where you can choose something special.'

Siloed design tools CAD CAM CAE set to integrate

New York | August 2017

'You will start seeing design tools become much more holistic in terms of being able to take in massive amounts of data around the simulation and manufacturing processes,' nTopology co-founder Brad Rothenberg said at the last DFM Summit in New York.

'Next thing coming along is multimaterial 3D printing'

New York | June 2017

In his keynote at DFM Summit #20 last Spring in New York, Autodesk strategist Duann Scott talked about Dreamcatcher and Monolith. 'We are building this interconnected network of software which can talk to as many machines as possible.'

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