Additive Manufacturing in The Economist

In The Economist edition Apr 21st 2012, a special report has been incorporated on the third  industrial revolution. The article deals with the digitalisation of the industrial production, enabling mass customisation.

3D-printing and Additive Manufacturing play a key role to enable this. Also, a new concept of manufacturing is mentioned, i.e. the TNO Printvalley machine.


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Quote of The Economist: Can it be done? Yes: TNO makes it happen! “Can it be done? Back to the EuroMold exhibition, where TNO, an independent research group based in the Netherlands, showed a novel machine with 100 platforms travelling around a carousel in a continuous loop. A variety of 3D-printing heads would deposit plastics, metals or ceramics onto each platform as they pass to make complete products, layer by layer. Scale up the idea, straighten out the carousel and you have a production line with multiple printing heads.”

 

You can read the complete article in the Economist here

This article led to a television news item, view it here. (DUTCH ONLY)

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