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In mid-market B2B manufacturing and distribution, Additive Manufacturing is on the radar, but for most remains a Phase X initiative.
Benefits of Additive Manufacturing in the B2B market include:
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Rapid product prototyping and iterations
Production on Demand for highly customized and limited-run products
Reduced inventory requirements; reduction in warehouse overhead
Elimination of shipping logistics and/or
mobile job site production
Fabrication of obsolete or deprecated parts to extend machinery lifecycles