It has been more than 30 years since the invention of additive manufacturing (3D Printing) and the subsequent development of the technology. A common industrial 3D printing process involves stacking and printing layers of material on a powder bed, selectively sintering powder particles with an electron laser beam, and finally forming the final product.
3D printing presents two challenges to the long-standing dilemma of batch and range in the manufacturing industry: first, it lowers the cost of printing large-scale objects on a lar...
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