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Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2024: Choose Your Own Adventure
Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) in New York City is my favorite AM industry event. Now, I work for the company that puts on the show, so I’m sure I would…
3DPOD Episode 181: 3D Printing Market Strategy with Hans-Alfred Breuninger
Hans-Alfred Breuninger, with a background as a strategy consultant, has specialized in 3D printing after many years in his initial field. He has collaborated with leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)…
RIP 3D Printing: The Cart Before the Horse
I’m grateful for the extensive feedback and thoughtful discussion that emerged from my earlier article, “RIP 3D Printing: 1987 – 2023, Complexity is Expensive.” The strong response has prompted me…
3D Printing in India: Tracing the Journey and Envisioning the Future
Although countries like the US, Germany, and China have extensively adopted additive manufacturing (AM), India has been slower to do so. Nonetheless, the potential of AM to propel socio-economic growth…
China Prioritizes Advanced Manufacturing Clusters in Latest Response to Biden’s Economic Strategy
As if to deliberately draw attention to the fact that we are in a new Cold War era, the Chinese government has formally announced that it, like the US, will…
Additive´s Tip of the Iceberg Problem, Part 2
We lack a complete and thorough understanding of the Additive market. Often essential, important or very profitable applications, procedures or knowledge is not shared. This means that the true extent,…
3D Printing´s Tip of the Iceberg Problem, Part 1
We’ve got a rather peculiar problem in Additive. I call this the tip of the iceberg problem and it stems from seven distinct factors. The high degree of strategic replication…
3D Printing Archipelago: CAPEX Heavy or Asset Light
Previously, we’ve seen how I anticipate that the 3D printing industry will split into multiple islands of competitiveness. In a more specific, fragmented market, companies will fight heavily in their…
Defeat in Detail: Winning in 3D Printing Against Entrenched Competitors
If we look at many of the firms working in 3D printing, we can see that they are spending an awful lot of time and money on rounding and fleshing…
AM Investment Strategies Profile: Stratasys
Stratasys CEO Yoav Zief will be taking part in the SmarTech Stifel AM Investment Strategies event on September 9th. We’re incredibly proud that we’ve got a set of very exciting…
Janne Kyttanen on 3D Printing in 2020
Janne Kyttanen is truly a 3D printing pioneer having spearheaded product design and consumer, industrial design, furniture, clothing, and other products with 3D printing. Roles at Materialise and 3D Systems…
Formnext 2019: A lot of new players, but where is the business value?
As the end of the year approaches, the additive manufacturing industry gathers in Frankfurt for the biggest event of the year: Formnext. For a week in November, the entire world…
XYZPrinting to Focus on Industrial 3D Printing: Interview with Fernando Hernandez
They told us we’d all have 3D printers on every desktop. The newspapers, the TV, all the tech blogs. All those that are now complaining that we don’t have 3D…
