3D Printing Is Changing The Face Of Multiple Industries

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Writer

It seems like you can’t go a week without a news report about how 3D printing technology is going to change the world. And it isn’t that 3D printing isn’t making waves, but since the technology was first conceived in the 1980s, its effects have been concentrated within a few spheres.

Still, those small-scale revolutions have been taking place in several industries as a result of 3D printing. Whether for good or for ill, the ability to execute digital designs with the click of a button is a driving force of innovation and change. Perhaps more interesting, however, is the breadth of industries worldwide currently being shaped by this technology. From fashion to aerospace, the effects of 3D printing are cropping up in unexpected and exciting ways.

In layman’s terms, 3D printing is a process used to create a three-dimensional object based on a digital file. To do this, tiny layers are printed one over the other until a complete structure is formed. Typically these thin layers are made of plastic filament or photopolymer resin. Working in tiny layers, the object is then built layer by layer based on the specifics on the digital file.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the more interesting ways 3D printing has been shaping today’s industries.

Fashion

The fashion world is never one to miss the chance to incorporate the new and the daring. The first 3D-printed dresses began to appear on the runways of New York Fashion Week in 2013, brought forth by the

Article source: https://www.ecnmag.com/article/2017/10/3d-printing-changing-face-multiple-industries

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Museum gotta see ‘um

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Writer

“AVIATION EVOLUTIONS: THE JIM LUND 1:72 SCALE model airplane COLLECTION,” AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. Bay Area native Jim Lund has a passionate interest in aviation dating back to his childhood when he first constructed aircraft models. Later in life, he returned to the practice and has dedicated much of his time to model building as a way to explore and experience the astonishingly rapid advancement of aviation since the first airplane. Now, nearly 300 of Lund’s models of pioneer, sport and commercial aircraft are on display at the San Francisco Airport Museum and Library in “Aviation Evolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale model airplane Collection.”

THE PERFECT SCALE. The 1:72 scale of Lund’s models, with one inch equal to 6 feet, originated in the 1930s with popular aircraft model makers such as Skybirds and Frog. It appeals to the aircraft modeling community because of the ease with which nearly all aircraft types, from the smallest to the largest, can be constructed and displayed. This constant provides 1-to-1 size comparisons, and in large groupings it dramatically reveals the progress of aircraft design. Lund has created nearly 1,600 models in 1:72 scale representing historically significant aircraft from the 1903 Wright Flyer to today’s airliners. They are constructed using plastic, wood, metal, wire, string, epoxy and detailed with paint and decals. With a keen eye for detail, Lund includes careful study of the photographic record to assure that his models are accurately portrayed. Numerous models were constructed or modified from

Article source: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/arts_and_entertainment/museum-gotta-see-um/article_c7d47c5c-aa2e-11e7-aedc-633b452c3257.html

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Sedalia Lions Club to host bi-annual fundraiser Crop ‘n Shop

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Writer


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Faith Bemiss is a reporter for the Sedalia Democrat, covering general assignment, arts, food and entertainment stories. She can be reached at 660-530-0289.

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How IBM’s ThinkPad Became A Design Icon

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Writer

At launch, the ThinkPad 700C listed for $4,350, or around $7,00 in today’s dollars That may sound like an imposing price tag–in 2017, you can get a ThinkPad Carbon X1 decked out with every available accessory for about $2,200–but top-of-the-line notebooks cost big money at the time, especially if they had color displays. For instance, the PC Magazine issue with the ThinkPad review also evaluated a Toshiba notebook with a list price of $6,098, or more than $10,000 in 2017 dollars.

Besides, the ThinkPad soon became enough of a status symbol that the very fact it was a ThinkPad helped it command a price premium over garden-variety rivals. Today, says software-industry editor and Network World blogger Fredric Paul, “you go into a coffee shop full of wannabe entrepreneurs and everyone has a silver MacBook. The ThinkPad was like that in the corporate world for a while.” (I was moved to ask Paul for his opinion of the ThinkPad’s importance because back when the original model was new, I was an editor for an InfoWorld supplement called InfoWorld Direct and he reviewed it for us–and deemed it to have “just about everything you could want in a notebook.”)

Sapper’s design certainly helped sell ThinkPads, but the line also gained a reputation for substance, from the reliability of the hardware to the quality of IBM’s tech support. “They did a better job of not just coolness, but construction and solidity and support than a lot of their competitors did,” says Paul.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon

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Safirstein Metcalf LLP Announces That a Class Action Has Been Filed Against TransDigm Group Incorporated – TDG

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Safirstein Metcalf LLP announces that that a class action lawsuit has been filed against TransDigm Group Incorporated (“TransDigm” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TDG) and certain of its officers, on behalf of shareholders who purchased TransDigm securities between May 10, 2016 and January 19, 2017, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”).

If you purchased or acquired securities of TransDigm during the class period, and would like more information about the shareholder class action, please contact Safirstein Metcalf LLP at 1-800-221-0015, or email info@SafirsteinMetcalf.com

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 10, 2017.  A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member.

The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) TransDigm’s growth and profitability were artificially inflated as a result of its illicit business practices; (2) TransDigm used exclusive distributors to make noncompetitive government bids seem competitive; (3) TransDigm subsidiaries failed to list TransDigm as a parent entity when submitting government bids; and (4) consequently, Defendants’ statements about TransDigm’s business, operations, and prospects were false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.

On January 20, 2017, Citron Research issued a report entitled, “Could

Article source: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/15/1123424/0/en/Safirstein-Metcalf-LLP-Announces-That-a-Class-Action-Has-Been-Filed-Against-TransDigm-Group-Incorporated-TDG.html

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Three Upgrades for Aircraft Interiors That Increase Value

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Writer

Historically low aircraft resale prices, together with a large volume of used aircraft on the market, have aircraft owners and fleet managers thinking about how to maximize the value of their current aircraft.

In order to stand out in a crowded marketplace and secure a higher resale value, or to maximize usability so that they can happily keep the aircraft for a year or two longer rather than upgrading now. 

The Private Jet Interior is Central to Passenger Satisfaction and Resale Price

Larry Dean, President of CL Jet, put it this way:

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Change Agent: Tomas Gonzalez-Torres, aerospace engineering lecturer, NASA veteran

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Writer

Tomas Gonzalez-Torres is teaching students some of the lessons he learned during a long career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Larger image. Photo by Christopher Gannon.

AMES, Iowa – Tomas Gonzalez-Torres pointed across his Howe Hall office and described, left to right, each of the NASA plaques hanging high on the wall.

There was one for the spacewalk team, one showing the official patch for the July 2006 shuttle mission STS-121, one commemorating the 1981-2011 run of the space shuttle program, the NASA “meatball” logo, one for the NASA flight operations team and the patch for the flight directors’ office, this one autographed by many of NASA’s current and former flight directors.

And then Gonzalez-Torres, an Iowa State University lecturer in aerospace engineering, picked up a plaque from the top of his desk. It was his own NASA patch, representing his four years as a flight director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and his flight director team name.

“Lightning Flight.”

Tomas Gonzalez-Torres’ NASA patch features

his flight director team name, Lightning Flight.

The patch features a cardinal oval with a gold lightning bolt slashing diagonally through it – and, yes, the colors represent Iowa State. In the middle of the bolt is an 82 – Gonzalez-Torres was NASA’s 82nd flight director. There are 11 stars sprinkled around the patch’s black background – he was a member of the flight director class of 2011. There are representations of the space shuttle, the Hubble Space Telescope and the

Article source: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/04/tomasgonzalez-torres

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