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• On its own, additive manufacturing (AM) may not need a new round of record-setting investment in order to move to new heights of scalability (whether or not any investors would...
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On its own, additive manufacturing (AM) may not need a new round of record-setting investment in order to move to new heights of scalability (whether or not any investors would even be willing to foot such a bill). But it is highly likely that, as part of a global transition towards anchoring the manufacturing sector in networks defined by industrial internet of things (IIoT) capabilities, the AM industry’s next phase of growth will depend on the effectiveness of investments in AI-ready factory infrastructure.
I recently wrote about this topic in a post about the 2026 State of Industrial AI report from global networking hardware giant Cisco, which found that the ROI for AI spend in manufacturing is heavily determined by a given enterprise’s cybersecurity and networking readiness prior to