Additive Manufacturing Technology: Potential Implications ...
Web version: September 2014Author1: Sharon L. N. FordAbstractThis article explores the development and application of Additive Manufacturing as well as initiatives in the United States and other countries to advance it. It also examines the technology s effect on firm and industry production activities, as well as the Potential Implications for Manufacturing competitiveness focused in three industries. It concludes that the most significant factors affecting the Potential of Additive Manufacturing to contribute to competitiveness are developing standards, improving the selection and affordability of materials, and increasing the accuracy and reliability of equipment and This article represents solely the views of the author and not the views of the United States International Trade Commission or any of its individual Commissioners. This paper should be cited as the work of the author only, and not as an official Commission document.
ticework because of diagonal placement of members connecting the upper and lower chords. 11 Subtractive manufacturing processes such as machining take raw material and remove and shape it into the desired final form. In some cases, over 90 percent of a billet of raw material may be removed before the product is finished.
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