Innovation in Additive Manufacturing Intelligent Adaptive Processes

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Additive manufacturing (AM) has been gaining tremendous popularity in the public and industrial domains. The industrial landscape is undergoing a paradigm shift towards AM, as layer-by-layer manufacturing offers freedom of design by enabling production of shapes with complex internal and external features that enhance product functionality without the need for specialized tooling. For high-value-low-volume parts, or when a high degree of customization is needed, AM has been shown to decrease costs by reducing the design to fabrication cycle, by consolidating of multipart assemblies, and by reducing material waste. Thus AM has dramatically reshaped the industrial landscape, having a projected global revenue growth from $3.07B in 2013 to $21B by 2020 (Wohlers Report 2014), with key investment opportunities in related transformative research. The Canadian manufacturing sector has a unique opportunity to establish and maintain leadership through innovation in AM technologies.