Staub to help 43North award $5M Each year 43North holds a business competition (think Shark Tank, only without producers or Mark Cuban), in which any entrepreneur worldwide with an emerging business or a business idea can enter to win huge prizes. This year we’ve been asked to get involved – to help produce a remarkable and meaningful award Read more…
The Cobots are Coming We’re working hard on preparing for our latest advancement: a collaborative robot. This “Cobot” will be used for at least one new project in our shop, but has potential to be used for many other existing applications. As you may have read, we have been using robotics at Staub for almost two Read more…
Our Stratasys Fortus 400 has been busy during the past few months. I mean really busy. During the month of March we approached full utilization of the machine, and we don’t see that slowing down any time soon. One of our most interesting projects was to print fixture components for a local aerospace company. That Read more…
We’re really excited to have EWI move into town. Buffalo Manufacturing Works is being operated by Edison Welding Institute (EWI), and they’re trying to replicate the success that EWI achieved in Ohio. This article from the Buffalo News offers a brief explanation of what EWI and Buffalo Manufacturing Works is trying to accomplish here in Read more…
A lot has been happening at Staub Additive. We’ve been working hard to make advances in our 3D Printing capabilities, and to help our customers realize their goals. Following are a few of our more recent developments. Sales Samples This Armstrong pump was grown on our Connex3. It took 38.5 hours to build, and many hours Read more…
New employees give us new opportunities We’ve recently been on the lookout for talent. Maybe you’ve heard. A self-assessment of our company led us to look for ways to bolster our engineering capabilities. We are proud to say that we’ve found two new employees who have been difference makers since day one. Going forward, we’ll have Read more…
Have you ever hit a brick wall with a prospective customer? Of course you have! Our customers are using our 3D Printing technology in their sales and marketing tactics. At Staub Additive we have helped our customers reduce their sales cycle by 3D printing colored cut-away models of their product. In the past, sales people Read more…
IMTS 2014 The Staub team, led by Tony, made another visit to IMTS this year. The International Manufacturing Technology Show is held every two years in Chicago. It is the event if you are interested in anything that is related to manufacturing. Visitors are guaranteed to see at least 53 things that make their Read more…
I love technology. I love manufacturing. For 2 decades I’ve been intrigued by Additive Manufacturing. I saw my first Stereolithography (SLA) machine in the 90’s, but no one called it Additive Manufacturing back then. UV light passed over a resin bath and solidified it into a part. The process was slow and the part was Read more…
One question that we often hear is, “How do your machines make these parts?” Depending on who we’re talking to, we give the inquirer one of two answers: We either do a deep dive into the technology or we tell them that it is basically magic. In this blog post, I’ll attempt to answer that Read more…
