Additive manufacturing (AM) is the darling of small parts makers everywhere, especially for small batches, prototypes and customization.
As a production technology, AM provides definite advantages when dealing with a small quantity of small, complex parts, but many manufacturing engineers come up scratching their heads when they consider the drawbacks of this technology: the low lead time is seemingly countered by the long build time, and the capability of high complexity is countered by aniso…
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