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It’s really, I think, the next
generation of manufacturing

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metal parts. You take a digital
3D model and you use it to

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drive a laser beam or an
electron beam in a pattern.

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You put metal powder or metal
wire underneath it, it melts and it

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very quickly solidifies and it
forms a part just in the shape

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hat you want, so that digital
model becomes the part.

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That’s really exciting.

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Rather than focusing on the
feasibility of manufacturing

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an engineer can focus their
design efforts towards

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increasing the efficiency of
their parts such that their

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parts will have increased
capabilities in the end product

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As a materials engineer, I get
to look at the same old alloys

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in a totally new and
different way

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Now this isn’t replacing
traditional machining, but it’s

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more of a supplement. It’s
really interesting whenever

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we are able to take a look at
a part on the computer, we’re

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able to look at ways that we
can reduce weight

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or take away mass

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Additive manufacturing is
really a more precise, you can

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have strength in different
directions, you can have

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compliance in other directions

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There’s a lot of different
capabilities that additive

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manufacturing can achieve
that are outside the realm

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of traditional manufacturing

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A part that we are right
now, we might have 10

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different individual parts that
we have to weld together or use

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bolts, additive manufacturing
allows you to maybe to make it

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as one part.
One printed part with one model.

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Thinking that you no longer
have to maintain a warehouse

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full of parts, but the
possibility that you may just

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to maintain a database of files

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and then be able to print them
off at will, I think the full

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potential has yet to be
realized...

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You can get rid of bolts
in inconvenient places

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Anything that goes on the ship,
failure is not an option.

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So that’s a big part of what we
do, so if the ship needs

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a part quickly, we can get it
to them, get them back on

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station defending the nation
doing the work that they’re

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supposed to be doing