Additive manufacturing (3D printing)

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Supesh Jain

Challenge and Opportunities for Large Scale Adoption, Prodel 3D, UAE

: Biomater Med Appl

Abstract

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3D printing (additive manufacturing) has been around for more than 30 years. A lot of technological progress has been made in that time, most recently with new innovations such as metal 3Dprinting. Although the technology seems to hold a lot of promise, the rate of adoption has not lived up to the hype. 3Dprinting is a growing industrial sector that is redefining what a manufacturing job may look like in future. Growing political will and pressure to develop manufacturing jobs nationally, coupled with 3D printing’s ability to redefine conventional blue collar jobs into a creative, hi-tech.

Biography

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E-mail: supesh@mit.edu