53 - Steel Mills and Spatter: AM and Advanced Manufacturing Research at Carnegie Mellon University

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Stephanie Hendrixson shares observations from her visit to learn more about two different manufacturing institutes under the umbrella of Carnegie Mellon University. First, she visited the lab facilities at Mill 19, a refurbished steel mill site, used by the Manufacturing Futures Institute. The MFI aims to accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing, through work that includes things like robotics, digital twins and generative design as well as AM. She also learned about the Next Manufacturing Center, CMU's additive-focused research institute seeking to solve increasingly specific 3D printing problems— including how to model and avoid spatter in laser powder bed fusion.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Stephanie's article about additive manufacturing and Carnegie Mellon University
• More about the solar array installed at Mill 19
• Article from Solar Power World
• Mill 19
• The Manufacturing Futures Institute and Next Manufacturing Center