Jade Boyd

Rice University

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

This new white paper tells you the key inventory count challenges that companies are dealing with and shows you how to ease the pain using a unified, cloud ERP solution.

Unlike most commercial SLS platforms, Rice University's OpenSLS allows researchers to work with their own powdered materials, including specialized biomaterials like polycaprolactone, or PCL, a common nontoxic polymer that was used to print these tissue-engineering scaffolds. Researcher Ian Kinstlinger developed a method for smoothing the surfaces (left) of newly printed scaffolds (right) using vaporized solvent.

Laser Cutter Hacked to Create Open-Source 3D Printer

It's 40 times cheaper, and can print intricate designs from powdered plastics and biomaterials.