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Reshaping the Future of Manufacturing | Foundations & Frontiers | Contrary

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A deep dive into the additive manufacturing technologies transforming mass production.

Manufacturing, broadly speaking, is an industry that turns raw materials into finished goods. Given the diversity of products exchanged in our economy, we might imagine that there are as many different ways of making things as there are goods sold. However, the reality is rather different. The world of mass manufacturing is organized around a handful of key technologies and machines capable of shaping material into particular forms. It is these machines and their limitations which dictate the geometries and materials of all manufactured goods around us. However, it is not just product design w

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