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The Experience Stratasys Tour is back on the road for another nationwide tour and will be visiting these four upper Midwest locations in June! Join Stratasys and AdvancedTek for a local, convenient way for manufacturers, educators, designers and healthcare professionals to speak with 3D printing experts and see the latest 3D printers, materials and solutions […]

  The Experience Stratasys Tour is back on the road for another nationwide tour and will be in Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday, June 16th! Join Stratasys and its partners AdvancedTek and H2I at UW-Madison’s Engineering Mall for a local, convenient way for manufacturers, educators, designers and healthcare professionals to speak with 3D printing experts and […]

When it comes to stemming the spread of COVID-19, there’s probably no more important item than the face mask, which, according to the CDC, prevents respiratory droplets from traveling into the air—and onto other people—when we sneeze, cough, talk or raise our voice. It’s certainly the one consumer product that defines 2020. And while any […]

Advancements are being made within the field of hybrid manufacturing because of a research collaboration between Iowa State University and John Deere. Matt Frank, a professor in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, has spent the past year working alongside researchers in John Deere’s Advanced Technology and Engineering group as part of a professional development assignment, […]

As 3D printing technology evolves and we become more familiar with its potential, UMC’s vision for additive manufacturing expands to one they could never have imagined only a few years back. When you look at using 3D printing in combination with technology such as the internet of things (IoT), machine learning, and automation, the future […]

3M Monday, May 20, 2019 1:37 pm CDT We are excited to announce the addition of nine new elements to our 3M Periodic Table of Technology Platforms – our most extensive update since 2010.  Why are we excited? Because 3M’s Periodic Table helps show the breadth of the technologies that sets 3M apart from all […]

May 13, 2019, 12:14 PM There is a good chance in a few years you will ride a motorcycle, buy a home appliance or fly in an airplane with parts in it that Midwest Composite Technologies LLC is helping design right now. The Hartland-based company specializes in helping companies with new product development and low-volume […]

Precision Tool Technologies of Brainerd, Minnesota, is a contract machine shop dedicated to lights-out machining. It runs unattended not only through nights but also all the way through weekends. As this article describes, one of the challenges of that long lights-out operation is coolant. How can coolant levels be replenished in the machines reliably when […]

Polaris Industries, a U.S. manufacturer of powersport vehicles, is using Stratasys 3D printing technology to optimize assembly tooling. Through AdvancedTek, a Minnesota-based reseller of 3D printers, Polaris has integrated the Stratasys F370, from the F123 series, to create custom parts, reducing both time and costs concerning production. “Instead of waiting anywhere between 8-12 weeks, we’re […]