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location to another will reduce Since AM is more digital, it is also and product functional out-
costs by a greater proportion, in prone to major cyber-attacks. puts. They can even generate
addition to lowering environ- Hackers may be able to hack a surrogated model to optimize
mental entropy. the digital file over the Inter- product quality and process
net, look at the information and with minimum sets of data.
Challenges in additive play unethical games. With new There are numerous analytical
manufacturing business models evolving, many as well as physics-based tools
In recent years, additive tech- companies may just share the and techniques that are available
nology has drawn the atten- printed CAD models where users to address many of the challeng-
tion of many researchers and can use this service to print the es faced by adopters of additive Since
innovators, and has built a big product on their own. Although technologies. Engineers and sci- additive
manufactur-
expectation of transforming 3D printing may not be used for entists are leveraging this tool to
ing is more
the Manufacturing industry the entire product design, in- predict distortion compensation,
digital, it is
to be more economical and dustries are taking advantage of support generation, thermal also prone
eco-friendly. However, the both methods and technologies. strain, layer by layer visualiza- to major cy-
journey of adopting this tech- tion, potential blade crash, and ber-attacks.
Hackers may
nology by the industry is not a The future so on to print the part effective- be able to
smooth one as any other new With the progress in Artifi- ly and efficiently as per require-
hack the dig-
innovative technology. cial Intelligence (AI) and Ma- ments. Physics-based tools are ital file over
The range of materials that chine Learning (ML), this new also used by engineers to val- the Internet,
qualifies and satisfies all the technology is going to bring idate those parts for different look at the
regulatory requirements for immense benefits to Manufac- environmental conditions and information
and play
industrial parts is still evolv- turing industries. With the use reduce the expensive process unethical
ing. Most printers are limited of various ML techniques, en- of trial and error. A technolo- games.
by their printing volume ca- gineers can now characterize gy that started with the goal of
pacity. Industries have many the material in different classes rapid prototyping has expanded
large-sized components and, at and groups. Process parame- its goal towards making lighter,
present, very few printers are ters can be further optimized complex shapes with acceptable
available to meet such require- by the processing of large sets strength. The road ahead for
ments. There is a large scope of data. Product defects can be the adoption of this technology
of improvement in the energy analyzed better and faster. En- could be bumpy, but it’s encour-
required for printing between gineers can do a trade study aging to be a witness to various
different additive techniques. between process parameters resource reductions.

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