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Environmental Advantages in Additive Manufacturing
Professional Safety/ASSP
  • Analise Walter, Boeing
  • Cheryl Marcham, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Submitting Campus
Worldwide
Department
Aeronautics, Graduate Studies
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2020
Disciplines
Abstract/Description

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that uses a variety of methods to ultimately apply layers of material and create products (Ford & Despeisse, 2016; Ford, Mortara & Minshall, 2016). Although there has been an expansion in recent technology, AM has been used in manufacturing for a few decades (Ford, Mortara, et al., 2016). Since the late 1980s, AM has grown from simple product designs, with a focus on prototyping and customization, to modern times with billions of dollars in revenue and large-scale production of consumer and industrial products (Cotteleer, 2014). Forecasts showed a near $10 billion market by 2020, with automotive, aerospace and medical industries leading the way (Cotteleer, 2014).

Publisher
American Society of Safety Professional
Citation Information
Analise Walter and Cheryl Marcham. "Environmental Advantages in Additive Manufacturing" Professional Safety/ASSP Vol. 65 Iss. 01 (2020) p. 34 - 38
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/Cheryl_Marcham/54/