Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies.
The AM industry is moving this emergent technology forward from its prototyping history into a true manufacturing capability.
The process has the potential to revolutionise design, production and supply of parts. Exploitation, however, has been particularly limited for AM metal parts due the time and energy consumption during the post-processing of AM parts.
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