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Additive Manufacturing - background |
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 | Additive Manufacturing process flow |
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 | Additive Manufacturing for metals |
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Additive Manufacturing processes |
Benefits and impacts of Additive Manufacturing |
 | Benefits and impacts of Additive Manufaturing |
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 | Consumer goods and electronics sector |
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Challenges and opportunites |
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 | Standardisation, regulation, qualification and certification |
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- Use fab-lab machines for training and education.
- Grow and support existing networks, and support connections between them.
- There is a need to look at the business to customer or customer to customer relationship.
- Address the total concept in an integrated way to bring the technology to market.
- Cross-cutting integrating activities running throughout Horizon 2020.
- Skills/training at all levels from practical technicians to more academic researches and managers
- Training in all multidisciplinary aspects of Additive Manufacturing including engineering design, software, materials processing, materials supply, post processing, heat treatment, non-destructive testing and final finishing.
Source: Additive Manufacturing in FP7 and Horizon 2020
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- Exposing the technology to the widest possible set of innovators, and new industries while encouraging existing industries.
- Training of the designers in how they can optimise the design for benefits in reducing weight, costs, etc.
- Bringing more ‘best practice’ cases forward and showing more actively why Additive Manufacturing can provide benefit.
- Facilitating the education of people and SMEs in the adoption of new technologies and providing access by clear rules in future research and development programmes e.g. stronger role of SMEs as end users and extending the industrial sector.
- Establish technology transfer centres which have dedicated industrial focus and are supported by the regions.
- Educating at all levels from primary schools to capture the imagination of the public.
- Communication through conferences, events etc.