3D printing is an industrial-grade tool that rail transportation providers can and should be leveraging to secure their supplies of service parts, create tools that help maintenance and operations, and to enhance safety and customer experience.

For many applications and industries, the benefits of additive manufacturing are well-defined. Design freedom, flexible manufacturing, hyper personalization to name a few. The temptation is with such well-defined benefits, all it takes to make additive work within a business is to buy a machine and materials. In fact, for additive to be transformational, the entire business must buy into additive; from the boardroom to the factory floor. Spend 60 minutes with Blueprint and you’ll come away armed with the tools you need to adopt additive within your organization.

3D printing has turned the engineering world upside down, enabling previously impossible geometries and collapsing lead times. Something 3D printing is inherently not very good at? Part accuracy. In this first of three webinars on Thinking Additively, David Busacker, engineering consultant from Blueprint, dives deep into some of the unavoidable inaccuracies of 3D printing. He also provides viewers clear tactics on how to deal with these inherent constraints to “digital tooling” in order to design accurate, strong 3D printed parts.

The new year brings a fresh beginning, resolutions, and of course predictions. At Blueprint, we work with executives and engineers across the 3D printing industry and beyond. Based on our conversations and industry insight, here’s our perspective on what to expect in 2020.