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Additive manufacturing - New frontiers for production & validation

Additive manufacturing - New frontiers for production & validation

With AM now an established production technology for certain applications, there are barriers to mass adoption that are being addressed, including the need for in-process and post-process metrology technologies that can validate the quality and accuracy of the parts produced.

3D printing - an alternative to injection moulding?

3D printing - an alternative to injection moulding?

3D printing is unique as a disruptive technology in one key respect, and that is, having disrupted the manufacturing paradigm through the introduction of rapid prototyping some 25-30 years ago, it is now disrupting manufacturing again.