The academic and scientific works on 3D manufacturing technologies continue. One of the works regarding this comes from NextManufacturing in Carneggie Mellon University. One of the leading additive manufacturing centers of the world, NextManufacturing formed a consortium to encourage 3D printing.
As one of the world’s leading research centers for additive manufacturing, the NextManufacturing Center is defining the future of the field with its commitment to overcoming the challenges of this evolving technology so it can join the ranks of other mainstream manufacturing processes. The center will use these challenges not only as a focus for research, but also as a testbed for developing new tools for a broad range of complex manufacturing processes. Recently, the center has taken a significant step forward in this goal by creating the NextManufacturing Center Consortium. The consortium brings together major players in industry, nonprofit, and government to share knowledge and ideas with the goal of unlocking the potential of additive manufacturing in the United States.
For businesses, additive manufacturing has many benefits including major product customization less waste than traditional manufacturing processes, and on-demand capabilities. But there are still kinks to iron out—challenges which NextManufacturing Center researchers plan to tackle in the next five years. Harnessing the power of collaboration, the consortium will quickly disseminate these research findings into real-world manufacturing applications in order to increase the widespread adoption of additive manufacturing technology.
“With Carnegie Mellon’s deep history in additive manufacturing research and the innovative ideas of our faculty and students, the NextManufacturing Center is extremely well poised to tackle the challenges of this advancing technology,” says College of Engineering Dean James H. Garrett. “This new consortium is an important opportunity to bring leading industry, government, and nonprofit insight into the center’s research goals.”
“Collaborating across disciplines and with outside companies has been a huge reason that we have been able to deliver such impactful results here in the NextManufacturing Center,” says Anthony Rollett, professor of materials science and engineering and NextManufacturing associate director. “We are very excited that the NextManufacturing Center Consortium is creating more valuable partnerships for Carnegie Mellon’s additive manufacturing researchers. These collaborations will not only ensure that our research directly targets real-world problems, but that real-world problems directly influence our research.”