Innovation in Additive Manufacturing Intelligent Adaptive Processes

增材制造（AM）已经在公共和工业领域获得了巨大的普及。工业领域正经历着向增材制造的范式转变，因为逐层制造通过实现具有复杂内部和外部特征的形状的生产来提供设计自由，从而增强了产品的功能，而无需专门的工具。对于高价值、小批量的零件，或者当需要高度定制时，增材制造已经被证明可以通过缩短设计到制造周期、整合多部件组装和减少材料浪费来降低成本。因此，AM极大地重塑了工业格局，预计全球收入将从2013年的30.7亿美元增长到2020年的210亿美元（2014年沃勒斯报告），并在相关的变革研究中提供了关键的投资机会。通过增材制造技术的创新，加拿大制造业有一个独特的机会来建立和保持领导地位。

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.