The 3-D Printing Revolution | Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review on the use of 3-D printing and its implications on manufacturing industries.
Industrial
3-D printing is at a tipping point, about to go mainstream in a big way. Most
executives and many engineers don’t realize it, but this technology has moved
well beyond prototyping, rapid tooling, trinkets, and toys.How fast will all this happen? For a given business, here’s how fast it can
happen: The U.S. hearing aid industry converted to 100% additive manufacturing
in less than 500 days, according to one industry CEO, and not one company that
stuck to traditional manufacturing methods survived.500 days.