Sintavia LLC, a Tier One metal additive manufacturer, broke ground on a new 55,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Hollywood, Fla. According to Sintavia, the $15 million plant is the first of its kind to employ lean manufacturing principles for large-scale metal additive manufacturing. It is expected to open later this year.

As an advanced manufacturing industry, forging can benefit from the development of advanced alloys used in its products and in the dies it uses to forge them.

In this final installment of our series “North American Forging is Advanced Manufacturing,” we will explore “above-the-shop-floor operations.”

The term “software” was originally coined by Alan Turing, but it wasn’t until 1957 that software was installed onto a computer hardware system as a tool to be called on as needed.

Part 7 in our series on the North American forging industry focuses developing a skilled workforce.

GE opened a new manufacturing facility that will drive innovation and implementation of additive manufacturing across the company.

Like any advanced manufacturing process or enterprise, process controls are critical in meeting the demanding customer requirements of forged products.

Rolls-Royce will invest almost $600 million to modernize its aerospace manufacturing operations in Indianapolis and conduct technology research.

This article – the fourth in our series – concentrates on advanced raw materials, which add shape and value to materials ranging from specialty and microalloyed steels to metal-matrix composites.

This article will focus on induction heating and its place as an advanced and controlled thermal process enabled by a host of modular and modern heating units tailored for specific forged parts.