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- 8. Juni 2026
Why True Silicone Additive Manufacturing Is Now a Reality
For years, engineers were told to compromise. The materials that behaved like silicone were not silicone, and the silicone that worked like silicone could not be printed. That constraint is no longer absolute — but the confusion it left behind still shapes how most of the industry thinks about flexible additive manufacturing.
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TPU vs. TPE vs. True Silicone — What the Data Actually Shows
TPU and TPE are legitimate engineering materials — until your application demands autoclave sterilization, sustained sealing performance, or ISO 10993 biocompatibility. Here is where each material's limits are, and why they matter.
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The Gasket Nobody Thinks About Until It Fails
The electronics inside an avionics enclosure are specified to micron tolerances. The gasket sealing it is treated as a late-stage procurement item — ordered after the design is locked, sourced from catalog where possible, and substituted when the geometry doesn't fit. A tooling modification to correct an interface issue costs $5,000–$15,000 and four to six weeks. This piece makes the case for treating the conformal gasket as an engineering decision from the start — and explains what silicone additive manufacturing changes about the geometry, weight, and traceability constraints that have defined the category.
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21. Mai 2026Why the Fingertip Is the Hardest Part of the Robot to Get Right
Robotics engineers spend years solving the hard problems — actuation, sensing, path planning. Then they get to the fingertip. The failure mode in most gripper systems is not the force control. It is a contact interface made from the wrong material, in a geometry constrained by what a mold could produce. This piece works through why platinum-catalyzed silicone is the correct material for high-cycle gripper applications — and why additive manufacturing changes what fingertip designs are actually possible.
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