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Heineken - Case Study
Heineken is one of the largest global producers of beer, with over 150 breweries around the world. Juan Padilla González, Packaging Manager at Heineken has helped implemented Ultimaker 3D printers to increase efficiency and up-time at the Seville brewery.
After implementation, they have seen a reduction of costs in the applications that they identified by 70 - 90%, as well as decreasing delivery time by up to 70 - 90%.
Austech 2019
From the 14th-17th of May 2019, Imaginables attended Austech 2019 held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Austech is Australia’s premier Advanced Manufacturing and Machine Tool Exhibition, held alongside National Manufacturing Week (NMW), attracted more than 12 thousand visitors to the event. Austech also had an additive manufacturing section (Additive Pavilion), which was complemented by Unlimit3D, a conference on additive manufacturing/ 3D printing. We were excited to showcase our range fo quality and innovative products from Ultimaker and Dremel Digilab at the event, see below a photo of our booth at the event: Please click on the video below to view a...
Dinara Kasko - 3D Printing Patisserie
Dinara Kasko is a pastry chef that has taken over the desert world by storm. Her unique geometric cakes has captures the imagination of many. Kasko who is born in Ukraine, worked as an architect-designer. She used her skills to create sensational cakes using 3D Printing. Images Courtesy of Dinara Kasko Kasko's desserts takes on very architectural characteristics and she does this by creating food safe silicon moulds modelled on Architectural software like 3D Max and Rhiono 3D. "From the moment I got into patisserie, I decided to try and ass something new to it" said Kasko." I realised that the appearance is...
Melbourne Health Accelerator
Last week, on the 22nd of May 2017, Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings joined health professionals and researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital to launch the new Melbourne Health Accelerator (MHx) program. As an Australian first, MHx will work with clinicians and researchers as they develop new technologies to tackle some of the most pressing and emerging challenges facing our healthcare system today. The program will also cultivate commercially viable answers to complex healthcare challenges, by connecting health professionals and leading medical research experts with health technology start-ups.MHx will allow health professionals and researches access to a Maker Space...
Using Infill Mesh with CURA
Have you tried the new infill mesh function in Ultimaker CURA? You can now determine very easily sections of your 3d model to have different #mesh density, pattern, wall thickness etc to make more functional 3d Print Picture attached is and experiment on a finger making the joints more flexible with less infill. The last image is showing a dense infill mesh on the handle of a mallet.Other application would be to make a section of a part more durable while minimising print material for the non essential parts. This was done on an Ultimaker 2 but if you do...