Metal lightweighting: The additive advantage

Posted on 23 Jul 2018 by The Manufacturer

The quest for metal lightweighting - the ability to make parts lighter – is prompting a whole new way to think about design and manufacture.

 A key enabler of lightweighting is metal additive manufacturing – also known as metal 3D printing – which produces high quality, complex parts that are impossible to achieve through traditional manufacturing processes.  To learn more, The Manufacturer caught up with Patrick Dunne, vice president of advanced application development at 3D Systems. How is manufacturers’ awareness (and adoption)…

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