General Electric Co. (Boston) intends to sell 10,000 3D printing machines in 10 years, building upon acquisitions it announced last year. “It’s a big number,” Tim Warden, senior sales director of GE Additive, told a tour of people attending SME’s…
The race to produce small-series parts on demand, on location, will determine the shape of a $400 billion market. Roughly half the use of 3D printing is now for prototyping, but experts think that, by 2020, 80 percent of the…
It seems that 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, may be crossing a threshold from a period of hype and experimentation into one of rapid deployment and maturation. The technology has long been touted as a potentially revolutionary development…