Video: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Additive Manufacturing
AM is more than a means of making parts. Here are ideas about the reach that additive manufacturing will have, and the kinds of changes and advances that AM will enable.
The manufacturers who have begun to succeed with 3D printing as a means of production are beginning to see what the ultimate impact of additive manufacturing (AM) might be.
In this video, Additive Manufacturing editor-in-chief Peter Zelinski discusses five ideas that were not clear at first, but are now becoming apparent. They are:
- The greatest freedom might be material freedom.
- AM will produce products you’ve never seen before.
- AM is a logistics solution.
- AM will alter how we think about quality.
- AM is interrelated with machining.
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