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

Toronto | December 2019

'You're done when there aren't any more problems'

Toronto | October 2019

'We had to push our manufacturing partners,' Jeff Wollenzien of Shape Products said in the electronics panel at the DFM Summit in Toronto last month. 'We have this idea. Is this viable? Can we make this work for production?'

Matmatch wants 'to be a source of materials inspiration'

London | January 2018

'Simulation gives you a good idea how your product would stand up in its environment'

Toronto | August 2016

'We benchmark everything. We've analyzed Barbie'

Toronto | May 2016

'You would not believe how many people want to know how to make a much lower cost rice cooker with easier manufacturing and more features,' Sandy Munro said in his keynote at the inaugural DFM Summit in Toronto.

'There might be more happening than we know about'

London | August 2015

In the opening panel of DFM Summit #11 Roland Stapper and Tom Tobia discussed why the Netherlands is such a hotbed for 3D printing. 'In the 80s and 90s we as a nation willfully dismissed the idea that manufacturing could provide high value jobs,' Tobia responded. 'We have got some catching up to do.'

'Complexity comes free' in digital fabrication

New York | April 2014

Digital tools let industrial designers copy nature

New York | September 2013

'You can look to 3.8 billion years of evolution and say, there might be a vascular system out there that does this a little smarter than we have been doing it,' Erika Hanson said at last week's Design for Manufacturing Summit.