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Article: Lockheed Martin Opens Laser Direct Manufacturing Facility at Fort Worth Plant.
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- PR Newswire
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- February 25, 1999
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems announced today the opening of a new laser direct manufacturing research facility located on the factory floor of its Fort Worth plant. The facility uses robotically controlled lasers and metal powder to create custom three-dimensional parts in a process much like welding.
This promising new technology has been in development for the last six years at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. The impetus for its development was a desire on the part of a wide range of manufacturing companies to produce an automated industrial tool to build complicated metal parts that ...