The Effect of Additive Manufacturing/Metal 3-D Printing on the Bottom Line

October 1, 2017

To many, metal 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is way out there on the someday horizon. In reality, however, it’s already in use in multiple industries, providing a highly favorable effect on the bottom lines of those that have already embraced it. Metal 3-D AM takes what used to be solutions made up of multiple parts and creates instead a simple-to-highly-complex metal part.

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