Industrial additive manufacturing
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Chay Allen, Renishaw's AM Customer Applications Manager, explains what manufacturers should consider when matching a manufacturing technique to their production environment, and how to assess the requirements of their application against AM technology.
The recent emergence of the term Additive Manufacturing (AM) bears witness to an ongoing transformation in the use of additive technologies, away from low volume 3D printing and towards series manufacturing. This post explores the drivers behind this trend to industrial AM, and the technical developments that will be critical success factors in this transition.