F53: The Four Critical Frameworks to Scale Up Additive Manufacturing

The presenter will discuss lessons learned upon deploying the world’s largest additive manufacturing community and the importance of creating standards within the global manufacturing ecosystem for continued growth. Additive manufacturing will require new ways of thinking and working. We’ll discuss the four critical frameworks to exponentially scale up additive manufacturing: GLOBAL ID: Manufacturers are recognizable via an international identification system, enabling collaboration, trust and quality. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT: The industry identifies the universal ownership and access rights to digital assets distributed across the ecosystem. This promotes scaling and credibility. QUALITY & CERTIFICATION: A standardized quality and Certification framework ensures and verifies components produced across multiple locations are functionally equivalent.  PRODUCT RECIPES: This provides a universally accepted mechanism to ensure that components manufactured in a distributed environment are functionally equivalent. Additive manufacturing is the future of sustainable and safe manufacturing. These four standard frameworks will be critical to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing.