Spot the Difference! Summertime Spare Parts

Extending Product Lifetimes through 3D Printing While 3D printed parts are becoming ever more glamorous and advanced – additively manufactured parts can now be found in everything from aeroplanes to fashion garments – sometimes it’s nice to take a step back, and consider some more everyday applications of the technology. The wooden runner hub part below supports the ribs of …

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Digital Inventory: AM Forum Follow-Up

Rise of the “Pro-sumer” Well-known advantages of AM include the ability to produce more customised products and smaller batch sizes, whilst remaining economically viable. Subsequently, the rise in “pro-sumer” customers – those who are able to directly access OEM parts as and when they it – is a characteristic of this new AM centred digital supply chain. Matthias Schmid discussed …

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