3D printing is simply hitting the acceptance curve for wide-scale adoption by producers.
3D printing or, because it’s identified extra formally, additive manufacturing, has been with us for greater than 40 years. However solely lately has the expertise matured to the purpose the place it’s on the verge of being deployed in on a regular basis operations throughout a variety of producers. Like every new and modern expertise, it has needed to journey alongside the “Hype Cycle” of introduction, overselling, maturity and supreme acceptance. Nevertheless it’s nearly at that time now, based on Greg Hayes, senior vp of World Additive Minds with EOS, a pacesetter in powder mattress fusion (PDF) additive manufacturing. He explains the place the expertise is at the moment — having grabbed the addition of the U.S. Division of Protection, it’s even being utilized in submarines — and the place it’s going. And he’s candid in regards to the potential obstacles that stand in the way in which of full improvement. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.
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From EOS, a “Newbie’s Information to Additive Manufacturing”.