The Foundation Prodintec coordinates the publication of a guide on Additive Manufacture
3 January 2012
The Additive Manufacture or Additive Manufacturing, consists in the successive superposición of layers micrométricas of material, usually in shape of dust, until achieving the object wished. The consolidation of the material in each one of the layers achieves of distinct form according to the technology. This modality of manufacture no only supposes a new industrial revolution, but one of the key pieces of the digital era and of the industrial future when allowing, between other advantages, prescindir of tools and toolings of manufacture, reproduce any geometry that the human being can imagine by complex that this was, offer an immediate answer to the cambiantes needs of market and attend to the increasing demand of differentiation and personalización of the products by part of the consumers.
On the contrary of the traditional systems of production in which each phase (idea, design, development, production) materialised it a group of concrete professionals, in a specific geographic point, the new technologies concentrate in the same place, with an alone machine, all the process of manufacture. These new technologies allow to evade the generalisation of prototypes that finally are not profitable, and guarantee a manufacture to “the letter” and “artesanal”, without that shoot the costs.
