Reddit user [thetelltalehart] has been making brake press tooling with 3D printed PLA, and recently shared an interesting picture of a hybrid brake press punch, shown here on the right, in blue.

You also can 3D-print tools when teaching new operators, or in situations where manufacturing speed or safety matters more than tool longevity. With the right plastic filament and proper printing ...

I was in a fit of nerd glee the first time I used tooling board. I’d used MDF for similar purposes before, and I doubt I ever will again. Called Renshape, Precision Board Plus, or that green stuff ...

Any company that makes or buys engineered components is likely to spend significant sums on tooling – tens, hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars per year. Julie Driscoll is responsible for ...

Manufacturers of tooling for CNC routers offer a bewildering array of choices. Once you get past basic issues like choosing upcut (maximum chip evacuation), downcut (clean top surface edge), ...

If the past decade was about AI learning to see, read and summarize, the next one will be about AI learning to help.

Invar tools, such as these massive wingskin tools shown here, exemplify the most durable of metal tools — a category sometimes called hard tooling. Although relatively heavy and expensive, metal molds ...

Tooling is the vital but often underappreciated silent partner behind every well-designed composite part. It also can be a very costly aspect of that part’s production. The manager for a Tier 1 ...

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The convergence of application development, artificial intelligence and security is transforming how organizations build and maintain software, driving the rise of DevSecOps. AI-driven automation is ...