What are the challenges additive manufacturing must overcome to be a useful industrial tool?

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Advancements in materials and speed will be made simultaneously and additive manufacturing will become a brilliantly useful industrial tool.

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Five-axis tools are used for the production of precision components in the aerospace industry, in making gas and diesel engines, automobile parts, and throughout the medical, textile, oil, glass, heavy industrial equipment and tool industries.

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It is not a tool of industrial espionage.

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The robot, developed by German engineer Bernd Brodbeck and Kiener Maschinenbau, a manufacturer of automated industrial systems, is a tool to build solar power plants rather than operate them.

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Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.

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The dominant players in the machine tool industry have varied with the rise and fall of industrial manufacturing by country.

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An industrial conglomerate that gives its many operating units management autonomy, Illinois Tool would seem to fit the Buffett management model.

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