L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded a project agreement under the SOSSEC Consortium’s Air Force Open System Acquisition Initiative (OSAI) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for prototyping to demonstrate a new electronic warfare solution for the U.S. Air Force F-16 multi-role fighter – helping to protect the aircraft against threats. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MakerBot, a global leader in 3D printing and subsidiary of Stratasys (Nasdaq:SSYS), announces the addition of Nylon to its growing portfolio of engineering-grade materials, bringing the total to eight for the METHOD platform, as the company continues to drive accessibility of industrial additive manufacturing. Optimized for high abrasion resistance, Nylon is widely used for functional prototyping and end-use applications within the automotive, industrial products, and consumer products industries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mayville Engineering Company (NYSE: MEC) (the “Company” or “MEC”), a leading U.S.-based value-added manufacturing partner that provides a broad range of prototyping and tooling, production fabrication, coating, assembly and aftermarket services, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA), announced today that Joy Weiss has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Desktop Metal, the company committed to making metal 3D printing accessible to manufacturers and engineers, today announced it has begun shipping its Studio System™ to customers and resellers throughout Europe. The world’s first office-friendly metal 3D printing system for functional prototyping and low volume production, has met with strong adoption in North America among leading companies, including Ford, Stanley Black and Decker, Google’s ATAP, Goodyear, Owens Corning, and John Zink Hamworthy Combustion. Building on that momentum, the Studio System is now CE certified for international compatibility and being installed at customers throughout Europe, including France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA), announced today that it has raised $45 million in Series C funding, led by existing investor, Point72 Ventures. The round includes new outside investors, including Lockheed Martin, as well as existing investors, Lux Capital, Uncork Capital, Cendana and Golden Seeds. The investment will accelerate development of Tempo’s proprietary factory automation software to further increase speed and accuracy for manufacturing high complexity PCB assembly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions, a leading provider of electronics technology and services for space and other high reliability applications, announced today the new LeanRELTM product family designed to meet the needs of small satellite and non-traditional spacecraft manufacturers. The LeanREL product family, comprised of microprocessors, microcontrollers, as well as memory and interface integrated circuits (ICs), leverages Cobham’s 30+ years of radiation-hardened, QML level reliability, and innovative space systems design expertise and offers an unmatched combination of user benefits. LeanRel ICs are ideal for space-flight, military and aerospace applications that need to operate and survive in harsh environments while remaining cost competitive. Based on the same QML pedigree and silicon as the company’s renowned HiRel solutions, Cobham’s LeanREL ICs can enable significant cost savings—up to 60% depending on quantities, to extend mission durations well beyond that of typical off-the-shelf ICs and greatly speeds up time to market through rapid prototyping. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ATLAS Space Operations, Inc., a leading innovator in ground communications for the space industry, today announced an agreement to develop its LINKS platform with the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The competitively awarded rapid prototyping program will run for 12 months, and will deliver a complete satellite communications platform tailored to the Air Force’s Multi-Band Multi-Mission requirements, as outlined by the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Range and Network Systems Division. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest electronics manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), today announces a contract agreement with global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ESI Group (Paris:ESI), pioneer in Virtual Prototyping and creator of IC.IDO, the leading Virtual Reality (VR) solution for industrial applications, will exhibit at the 21 st edition of Laval Virtual , March 20-24 in Laval, France. Along with Diota , a leader in Digital-Field software solutions for Industry, ESI will present for the first time a live demonstration of their common value proposition, combining VR and AR within an operator-centered digital continuity solution. Together, they will address challenges related to factory assembly and in-service maintenance through an end-to-end solution that efficiently leverages digital data to achieve improved productivity, quality and traceability while decreasing operational risk. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MathWorks today introduced new flight analysis and visualization capabilities for aerospace design with MATLAB and Simulink. In Release 2018b, Aerospace Blockset adds flight control analysis tools to help analyze flying qualities of aerospace vehicles. Aerospace Toolbox adds the ability to customize user interfaces featuring cockpit flight instruments to visualize and analyze the motion and behavior of aerospace vehicles. Engineers can now develop continuous workflows from the early stages of vehicle design and development to flight prototyping, reducing time between design and testing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SkyWater Technology Foundry, the industry’s most advanced U.S.-based and solely U.S.-owned Trusted Foundry, today announced its Multi Project Wafer (MPW) FastShuttle program offering customers quick and low-cost prototyping and design enablement with access to high performance processes and regularly scheduled launch dates. The program provides a vehicle to develop new ASIC and custom designs, meeting customers’ evolving requirements to bring products to market quickly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tempo Automation, the world’s fastest electronics manufacturer for prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies, announces today that its San Francisco-based automated factory is now ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified. ISO 9001:2015 certification recognizes the company’s quality management system, including its production and testing processes, following rigorous manufacturing and quality process audits. AS9100D certification is a standardized quality management and quality assurance system developed for the specialized requirements of the aviation, space and defense industries, and is a requirement for supplying many of the companies in those segments. Tempo Automation develops proprietary factory automation software and deploys it in its own state-of-the-art printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) plant, enabling leading companies in the aerospace, medical technology, and automotive industries to prototype and bring new products to market more quickly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $376 million for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase of the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program and rapid prototyping effort with low-rate initial production options. BAE Systems’ solution combines new technology with proven capability to provide the Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) with a highly agile, armor-protected platform that delivers overwhelming and precise firepower for use across the spectrum of terrains and operations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ESI Group (Paris:ESI), leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, will launch its Additive Manufacturing (AM) simulation solution on November 13-16 in Frankfurt, Germany at Formnext , one of the world’s largest tradeshows for next generation manufacturing technologies. Leveraging ESI’s unique knowledge of material physics and its long-lasting support of the world’s largest OEMs across industrial sectors, ESI Additive Manufacturing , provides a comprehensive solution to accelerate metal additive manufacturing developments. The solution’s ability to quickly address manufacturability issues on the shop floor, as well as connecting with material quality investigations, makes it the perfect solution to ensure efficient and continuous workflows from Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to parts qualification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ESI Group (Paris:ESI), leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces its collaboration with DGA Aero-Engine Testing in the development of a virtual test bench for aircraft engines in flight conditions. DGA Aero-Engine Testing (or DGA-EP) is a non-profit public body, part of the Test and Evaluation capabilities of the French armament procurement agency. Aircraft engines, for both civil and military applications, are tested in DGA-EP facilities to verify their performance for given applications. These tests are an integral part of the engine certification process. This project leverages SimulationX , ESI’s solution for system simulation, to deliver a major technological advance that will benefit the DGA in terms of resources, deadlines and budget. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ESI Group , leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces the successful completion by German customer Space Structures of a project for the European Space Agency (ESA) . As simulation models are key to ensuring the integrity of vital launch equipment subject to high-intensity acoustic field during launch, accurately modeling acoustic conditions is an important challenge. Space Structures used ESI’s vibro-acoustic simulation software VA One to virtually test their designs in various acoustic noise environments. They could qualify the structural stress and strength responses of carbon-fiber composite panels, early in the design stage – improving their return on investment for this project, and increasing the satisfaction of their own customer, the European Space Agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORE Industrial Partners (“CORE”), a Chicago-based private equity firm, announced today the acquisition of Hayes Manufacturing Services, Inc. (“Hayes” or the “Company”), a rapid prototyping manufacturer of precision-machined plastic and metal components, by CORE portfolio company Prototek Sheetmetal Fabrication LLC (“Prototek”). Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Terves Inc. (“Terves”) is pleased to announce that it has added 5 CNC lathes and mills to keep up with demand for component build-to print services for TervAlloy™magnesium and Elementum™elastomericdissolvable materials that enables Terves to offer both rapid prototyping and complete part-production capability. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ESI Group , leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces its presence at the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) , organized in the UK from July 16 to 22. This year, ESI will put a spotlight on human-centric engineering, powered by Virtual Reality (VR) , and its Hybrid Twin™ solutions powering Industry 4.0. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]