{"id":9167,"date":"2013-12-01T22:54:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:23:03","slug":"ge-turns-to-3d-printers-for-plane-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/ge-turns-to-3d-printers-for-plane-parts","title":{"rendered":"GE Turns to 3D Printers for Plane Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"headline\" itemprop=\"name headline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GE Turns to 3D Printers for Plane Parts\" alt=\"The GE90 is one of the world\u2019s most powerful jet engines. GE plans to produce 100,000 3D-printed components for the next-generation GE9X and Leap models\" src=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" data-image-id=\"246455484\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"ticker_wrap\"><span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\">General Electric<\/span><\/span> (<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=GE\" data-symbol=\"GE\">GE<\/a>)<\/span>, on the hunt for ways to build more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for its new Leap jet engines, is making a big investment in 3D printing. Usually the nozzles are assembled from 20 different parts. Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing can create the units in one metal piece, through a successive layering of materials. The process is more efficient and can be used to create designs that can\u2019t be made using traditional techniques, GE says. The finished product is stronger and lighter than those made on the assembly line and can withstand the extreme temperatures (up to 2,400F) inside an engine. There\u2019s just one problem: Today\u2019s industrial 3D printers don\u2019t have enough capacity to handle GE\u2019s production needs, which require faster, higher-quality output at a lower cost.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-11-27\/general-electric-turns-to-3d-printers-for-plane-parts\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Electric (GE), on the hunt for ways to build more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for its new Leap jet engines, is making a big investment in 3D printing. Usually the nozzles are assembled from 20 different parts. Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing can create the units in one metal piece, through a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,43,38,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-business","category-engineering","category-human-trajectories","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47393,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/47393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}