5 Things You Didn’t Know About Additive Manufacturing

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:

1. The greatest freedom might be material freedom.
2. AM will produce products you’ve never seen before.
3. AM is a logistics solution.
4. AM will alter how we think about quality.
5. AM is interrelated with machining.

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Additive Manufacturing magazine began in 2012 as a supplement to Modern Machine Shop magazine. Today, the publication encompasses a website, e-newsletter, print magazine and annual conference.

[gingarrison]

still can't understand why the AM could change our view of product quality