Webinars & Trade Shows
Join us for live webinars each month and watch on-demand webinars available at your convenience. You can also find us at trade shows around the country to discuss designing for manufacturability with onsite engineers.
A Deep Dive into Overmolding and Insert Molding
In this webinar, you’ll learn about material compatibility between thermoplastics, what inserts can be integrated into plastic parts, and how to design for each process. Learn from industry experts about, materials that play well together and ones to avoid for overmolding, types of inserts that can be used for insert molding and more.
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How to Avoid Cosmetic Defects on Molded Parts
Learn about what leads to cosmetic defects in plastic injection-molded parts, and provide tips that will help you create high-quality products.
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How to Reduce Costs and Accelerate Production of Machined Parts
In this webinar, we’ll share how to optimize your design for the subtractive manufacturing process and provide tips on how to accelerate production time and reduce part cost.
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Accelerate Continuous Improvement with 3D Printing
In this webinar, we’ll share how you can leverage additive manufacturing in your continuous improvement initiatives.
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How to Conquer the BattleBots Arena with Digital Manufacturing
Learn about the design and development of DUCK!, a fighting robot featured on the latest season of “BattleBots.”
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Design Optimization for Multi Jet Fusion
This webinar explains how the MJF process works, its benefits and limitations, and how to improve MJF part design and quality.
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How Digitization Drives Quality Throughout Manufacturing
See how digital, automated manufacturing processes improve part quality and tracebility.
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How to Reduce Sheet Metal Design Risks and Production Costs
Learn which features create production risks and how to reduce those risks when drafting parts for sheet metal fabrication.
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A Deep Dive Into Metal 3D Printing
This presentation compares flawed versus optimized geometry, discusses part design considerations, and explores secondary operations options to keep in mind when designing for DMLS.
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How to Develop a Low-Volume Product Strategy Around Industry 4.0
We’ll examine how to unlock revenue opportunities with low-volume production and mass customization.
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3D Printing: Industrial vs. Desktop
Compare desktop and industrial-grade 3D printing capabilities and project considerations to determine the best process for your application.
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How to Reduce Injection Molding Costs
Learn how to stretch your manufacturing dollar and reduce your piece-part price by optimizing your design and incorporating moldability analysis.
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The Basics of Sheet Metal Part Design
In this presentation, we’ll examine how to design several common features found on sheet metal parts, including reliefs, offsets, holes, slots, and hems while keeping these guidelines in mind.
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3D Printing Beyond Prototyping
An inside look at how industrial-grade 3D printing is increasingly being used as a valuable complement to conventional manufacturing processes.
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5 Ways to Master Complexity in Molded Features
In our presentation, we will look at designing complex geometries for rapid injection molding, applying a non-traditional, rapid manufacturing approach to a traditional procedure to accomplish intricacy.
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How to Place An Order in Your Account
This webinar will walk you through how to effectively leverage Protolabs’ ordering system to accelerate your time to market.
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What is Model-Based Definition and Why You Should Use It
Oboe Wu of SOLIDWORKS shares the benefits of MBD and how you can adopt this new approach to design.
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An Engineer's Guide to Thermoplastics
A guide on how to select the right material for your injection molding design.
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Designing for Multi Jet Fusion
We examine how to design parts for Multi Jet Fusion, HP’s new production-grade 3D printing technology.
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Digital Inspection for Injection Molding
Learn how product designers and engineers can use on-demand manufacturing to accelerate speed to market and reduce total cost of ownership.
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3D-Printed Molds vs. Metal Tooling
In this webinar, we’ll explore how 3D-printed molds compare to more traditional tooling options like steel and aluminum.
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Leveraging Rapid Prototyping
Learn about multiple rapid prototyping processes and when each is most beneficial to your project.
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Designing for PolyJet 3D Printing
Learn about key design elements, material options and post-build processes in this 45-minute live webinar.
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Getting to Market Faster with Rapid Manufacturing
See how automotive companies can leverage rapid manufacturing to accelerate product development and remain competitive in a fast-changing market.
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Design Essentials for Overmolding and Insert Molding
We discuss how to design for overmolding and insert molding processes, provide guidance on material compatibility, and share how to add strength to parts with metal inserts.
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Reducing Production Costs with On-Demand Manufacturing
Learn how on-demand manufacturing can help companies reduce total cost of ownership, increase speed to market, and handle unforeseen changes in demand after product launch.
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Selecting the Right Material for 3D Printing
We explore various 3D printing materials ranging from ABS-like plastics to commercial-grade nylons to fully dense metals. Included will be design guidelines for 3D printing processes at Protolabs.
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How to Design Efficient Parts for CNC Machining
Learn a number of ways to modify your CNC machining design to not only improve functionality, but reduce manufacturing costs.
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Designing for Metal 3D Printing
Direct metal laser sintering can produce fully dense metal parts with hollow features and complex, organic geometries. Learn why product designers are turning to DMLS for prototyping and end-use parts.
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How to Accelerate Medical Device Development
Medical device development can be reduced by weeks or even months with rapid manufacturing. We share how the digitalization of manufacturing reduces production costs, reduces lead times, and helps minimize design risks.
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Improving Manufacturability with ProtoQuote
We take you inside our interactive quoting system, ProtoQuote, to navigate our design feedback (DFM), real-time pricing, and proposed revision (PPR) features.
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Rapid Manufacturing for Plastic Parts
See how identifying quantity, lead time, and material requirements of your project early can help you determine the best manufacturing process for plastic parts.
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WESTEC
The Protolabs team will be in Long Beach, CA from September 24-26 at WESTEC. We’ll be at booth #437 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and we’d love for you to stop by.
Trade Show
Canadian Manufacturing Tech Show (CMTS)
Sept 30- Oct 3, 2019
Missassauga, ON
The International Centre
Booth: 1031
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Trade Show
MD&M Minneapolis
Oct. 23-24, 2019
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Convention Center
Booth: 404
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