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Benefits Using Additive Manufacturing

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Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have an important potential to change the way of design and production of parts, hence offering a significant innovation potential: On the one hand improved design can lead to a better performance of a part in its use phase, while AM allows the rapid and tool-less production of individual, customized parts starting from lot size one. In this aspect, AM technologies ideally complement traditional manufacturing technologies into new areas of complexity, and costs-effectiveness for small to medium lot-sized parts and applications. The AM-specific peculiarities – a production process chain that materializes a computer added design (CAD) file into a physical part without huge manual interaction – represent thereby the physical arm of industry 4.0 in an ideal way.

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    Adriaan B. Spierings

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mechanics, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christoph Klahn

  3. inspire AG, Zurich, Switzerland

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  1. College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

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  2. Lab. for Digital Sciences of Nantes, École Centrale de Nantes, NANTES CEDEX 3, France

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  3. CMST, Nan**g University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nan**g, China

    Dongdong Gu

  4. Karlsruhe Institut of Technology KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

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  5. Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

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  6. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  7. Materials Science & Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Spierings, A.B., Klahn, C. (2023). Benefits Using Additive Manufacturing. In: Pei, E., et al. Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20752-5_8

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