One real world example of the impact additive manufacturing is capable of, is the production of hearing aids that are customized for each patient.
This kind of additive behavior could explain how autism arises in only one person in some otherwise unaffected families.
An RSPCA spokeswoman said there was no connection between the incident and the birds that washed up on the south coast of England covered in an oil additive, as the types of oil were different.
The NAMII will provide the innovation infrastructure needed to support new additive manufacturing technology and products in order to become a global center of excellence for additive manufacturing.
The President's plan will bring together an array of new and existing policies all aimed at enhancing the role of private capital in U.S. infrastructure investment as a vital additive to the traditional roles of federal, state, and local governments -- making American workers and businesses more competitive and putting more Americans back on the job.
The banning of antismog additive MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) presented a new challenge.
He spent high school selling a car battery additive from the back of a catalog and ran a printing company at Yale.
FORBES: New York's Super Angel Aims to Play Global Matchmaker
Ott immediately thought of an additive manufacturing process called direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) that she had encountered in her work at a major aerospace company.
FORBES: Design A New Foot If The Shoe Does Not Fit -- Laser Sintering a Prosthetic Leg
The RSPB has called for ships at sea to be banned from discharging an oil additive which contaminated hundreds of birds on the south coast of England.
Some 30, 000 Americans go to the emergency room each year because of severe food allergies, said Dr. Stefano Luccioli of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Food Additive Safety.
Its cynics are arguing, however, that its existence is contingent on those federal rules and taxpayer-funded allocations that are giving it a higher place in the market one that is used as a fuel additive in the hopes of displacing petroleum usage.
This problem is compounded by the possible presence of multiple chemicals which together have an additive effect that greatly increases the lethal action of any single chemical.
At least seven companies are expected to show 3D printers at CES 2013, demonstrating the potential benefits of the technology for a wide swath of industries and users. 3D printing uses an additive process to create an exact physical duplicate of a product based on a digital model.
FORBES: Ultra HDTV, 3D Printers And More: Trends To Watch At CES
Additive manufacturing is the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer.
Not too long ago the BLS assumed that the price of gasoline went down because of the use of a new additive that improved performance.
This additive manufacturing conference is one of the biggest around and last year hosted 1, 324 exhibitors from 38 countries and 57, 955 designers, engineers, managers, and executives from 97 countries.
FORBES: Sintering Your Way To Dental Implants And Hip Replacements
But additive manufacturing is only one of a number of breakthroughs leading to the factory of the future, and conventional production equipment is becoming smarter and more flexible, too.
The additive made up 11% of California gasoline by volume, but only half that volume can be replaced by ethanol, forcing refiners to produce an extra 100, 000 bbl. a day of gas to meet demand.
Warwick, the world's leading producer of a chemical additive in household detergents, employs 230 at its main manufacturing site and headquarters, and will use the Shanghai base to develop its business further in the growing Chinese market.
The Additive Manufacturing institute is piloting many of the ideas developed for the NNMI.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently considering whether to ban the use of menthol as an additive to cigarettes.
FORBES: Will Removing Menthol From Cigarettes Improve Health?
Rosenberg's grandfather Michael Rhodes was a chemist who in the 1950s led the invention of the water-repelling molecule at the heart of Hycrete's additive.
Wohlers Associates, a consulting firm that tracks additive manufacturing, provided me with a media copy of their 2012 State of the Industry report this past spring, will run its own conference alongside EuroMold, focused on metal additive manufacturing, with experts from around the world.
FORBES: Sintering Your Way To Dental Implants And Hip Replacements
The Department of Defense opened the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, after funding was identified for it, she said.
Morris Technologies, an Ohio firm that specializes in additive manufacturing and is the largest deployer of DMLS in the world, did the job.
FORBES: Design A New Foot If The Shoe Does Not Fit -- Laser Sintering a Prosthetic Leg
The only time this is an exception is when you combine specific types of polymers and metals with specific additive manufacturing processes.
If suddenly trans fats were declared to be a healthful food additive that helped prevent cancer, the price of french fries would soar until potato production was ramped up.
The Pilot Institute will focus on additive manufacturing and aims to demonstrate the value of collaborative problem-solving and asset-building that could occur on a broader scale if the Network were to be established.
Additive manufacturing can also be achieved by a number of other methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS).
Although this deal involves a limited number of subscriber, they will be directly additive to profits by opening up additional channels for monetizing the content that Disney has already produced.
FORBES: Disney's Multi-Platform Distribution Deals Can Lift Margins And Outlook
应用推荐