Benefits Of Additive Manufacturing Or 3D Printing
                     Benefits Of Additive Manufacturing Or 3D 
Printing
Sandra McCall
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Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is also known as three-
dimensional (3D) printing or rapid prototyping (RP) or layered 
manufacturing (LM) or solid freedom fabrication (SFF). Additive 
Manufacturing has taken a hold on our collective imagination and is set to 
fundamentally change the way things are made.
High power Additive Manufacturing is a process by which an object is 
produced in an additive fashion, layer-by-layer. By using computer-aided 
design (CAD) software or 3D scanning a digital 3D model is made, 
individual layers are sliced from it, then tool path code is supplied for a 
3D printing machine. Model is recreated in the physical world from the 
base slice to the top using a machine that implements a specific process 
depending on the exact technology until the object is complete.
Additive manufacturing might implement seven different types of 
processes for 3D printing which are binder jetting, directed energy 
deposition(DED), material extrusion, material jetting, powder bed fusion, 
sheet lamination, and vat photo-polymerization. For several reasons, 3D 
printing has been heralded as a breakthrough in manufacturing, including 
the ability to automate production, directly fabricate CAD models without 
the need for expensive tooling, and create complex geometries impossible 
with other manufacturing methods.
Advantages of additive manufacturing: Design freedom (AM can 
essentially make any geometry with no restrictions), No tooling (AM can 
make parts from start to finish with no other tooling required), Saves 
material (Due to near net shape processing, it creates less waste than 
machining), Versatility (Easy to change design and complexity), Part 
optimization (No design restriction means parts can be made lighter and 
stronger).
Models are quickly employed to supply information about form, fit, and 
function. AM can be used to significantly shorten product development 
times and costs when used in conjunction with other technologies to form 
a process chain. Some of these technologies are developed that the output 
is suitable for end-use. Parts can now also be directly made in a variety of 
metals using high-power laser technology. Now every person can come 
with an idea to custom made almost everything and become a reality with 
ease. AM technology is revolutionizing product development and 
manufacturing. The “rapid” character of the whole product development 
process relies much on the fact that we are using computers throughout. 
With AM What We See Is What We Build, building within an AM 
machine is generally performed in a single step, regardless of the 
complexity of parts to be built.
The workshop can become much cleaner, more streamlined, and more 
versatile than before by the adoption of this technology. Companies have 
already created facilities that are dedicated to additive manufacturing of 
parts and this technology is on the horizon for being a standard part of 
manufacturing. The aerospace industry is using AM machines to build 
parts that will go into engines. As the price of 3D printers is continually 
dropping, it won’t be long before 3D printers become a standard 
household item. AM now can make implants that fit optimally into a 
patient, as well as create new implants that could not be made before thus 
making the globalized engineering life-changing in the medical industry. It 
will give the ability to manufacture what was once not possible by 
incorporating it into companies.
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