Customizing Materials for Additive Manufacturing Applications: Opportunities and Challenges

Additive Manufacturing offers end users unique advantages over conventional manufacturing technologies. A major advantage is the lower cost of capital investment required to go from idea to working prototype. This also makes the technology perfectly designed for high value, short run, customized production applications (medical, wearables, jigs and fixtures, etc.). However, these types of applications often require specific material performance attributes for end use application that require customization to achieve. The complexity material requirements coupled with the plethora Additive Manufacturing technologies and equipment present major challenges for technology proliferation in end use parts. This talk will discuss these challenges in greater detail and present some opportunities and strategies to potentially overcome these issues.

Speaker

Dr. Jeffrey J. Cernohous

Chief Operating Officer and Member

Interfacial Consultants, LLC, a Nagase Group Company