What is it about?
Additive manufacturing has the potential to transform not only commercial products, but also products used by the manufacturing/industrial sector, leading to new manufacturing paradigms such as decentralized production.
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Why is it important?
Additive manufacturing can change the ways that we make and use products across all sectors of the economy, disrupting supply chains, with important energy, environmental and economic implications.
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This work has been sponsored by the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy, and has been performed by a collaboration of university and national labs that provide independent, 3rd party analysis of advanced manufacturing technologies and the cross-sectoral impacts associated with technology adoption.
Joe Cresko
U.S. Department of Energy
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This page is a summary of: Environmental and Economic Implications of Distributed Additive Manufacturing: The Case of Injection Mold Tooling, Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12641.
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