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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

This has taken the form of long lead times, as well as stalling of production when parts needed for manufacturing fail. Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. There is a potential solution, however: additive manufacturing. Industry 4.0

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A vision of manufacturing resilience and flexibility

Manufacturer's Monthly

Before President Joe Biden’s recent support of additive manufacturing, the Obama administration created a lot of awareness and demand for 3D printers in 2014. The problem was at the time, the technology helped with prototyping but wasn’t mature enough to really help manufacturing,” he said. “In The Australian journey.

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The technology behind serial production

Manufacturer's Monthly

I think this is where digital manufacturing is going and the vision which Markforged has is very appealing to become a part of, so we are integrating into that world.” Christian Lönne says Markforged printers enable quick transition from prototyping to production.

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The technology behind serial production

Manufacturer's Monthly

After many changes, Digital Metal’s biggest move came in July last year, when Makrforged – the creator of the integrated metal and carbon fibre additive manufacturing platform Digital Forge – entered into a definitive agreement with Höganäs AB to acquire the company. This is what ‘the next step’ looked like for Digital Metal.