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IDTechEx Asks If Electronics Manufacturing Can Join the Digital Age

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Asked whether electronics is a ‘digital technology’, almost everyone would reply in the affirmative. However, while printed circuit boards (PCBs) enable digital technologies, the manufacturing processes used to produce them are still largely analog. Why Do We Need Digital Electronics Manufacturing?

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

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3D printing is a digital manufacturing technology, meaning that a large part of the production process is managed online. As its name implies, additive manufacturing adds material to create an object. However, finishing the printed components still has some manual process steps.