1 - What Makes Additive Manufacturing Distinctive? And How Does 3D Printing Enable Startups?

Aug 30, 2021

Hosts Stephanie Hendrixson, Julia Hider and Pete Zelinski of Additive Manufacturing Media discuss what makes AM distinctive among manufacturing methods plus how startups are enabled by 3D printing in this first episode of the AM Radio podcast. This episode is brought to you by the Additive Manufacturing Conference + Expo.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Additive Manufacturing Media
• Modern Machine Shop
• RPG, machine shop with MarkForged capability
• 3D printed Covid-19 test swabs
• Smile Direct Club, dental aligner producer (A point of clarification: In the episode Stephanie states that Smile Direct Club planned to print 1 million parts in a year. The actual figure cited was higher--20 million!)
• Fitz Frames, makers of custom glasses
• Node Audio, creators of the Hylixa speaker
• Retraction Footwear, manufacturer of custom flip-flops
• The Future of Jewelry, maker of customer rings produced with 3D printed tools
• Tilt Hydrometer, maker of home brewing equipment
• Defox, inventor of the Periscope Case
• Tangible Solutions, contract manufacturer of medical implants