You may as well read this article now. Because before long applications like this will no longer pique your interest. Consolidating 30+ assembled parts into one printed component. So what?
A reduction in manufacturing time from several months to 68 hours. And?
Reducing weight from 35kg to 8.8kg and delivering a potential saving of 246 tonnes of CO2 emissions over the aircraft’s lifecycle. Boooorrrrinnnggg.
This day has been coming. We’ve been talking about it for long enough. And when it does, what then?
How many more times can we hear people like Hexagon Global Strategy & Business Development Director Mathieu Perennou tell this kind of story? Say things like: “We took advantage of the design freedom of additive manufacturing (AM),” or “We lowered the risk of supply chain disruption.”
