International Conference on
Additive Manufacturing

July 2011
(date to be confirmed)

Additive Manufacturing, also know as direct-digital-manufacture, generative manufacture of additive fabrication, is one of the most exciting emergent technologies available to global industry today. AM uses 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) data to directly 'print' or 'grow' parts in a variety of polymeric, metallic, ceramic and organic materials. AM allows companies to manufacture ever more complex and optimized components at very low unit volumes. It is suggested that AM could enable a step-change for manufacturers that will ultimately result in manufacturing being maintained in high wage economies. The advantages that AM brings are already being commercially exploited by organisations such as Siemens, BAe Systems, Boeing, NASA, Freedom of Creation and many others, to gain commercial advantage today. Much academic research is also being undertaken into AM, and it is the aim of this conference to impart to industry and academia the state-of-the-art in Additive Manufacturing, so that commercial advantage can be exploited and new avenues can be explored.