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• Machines are growing. That much is clear from EOS, the German additive manufacturing company that has spent more than three decades pushing metal powder-bed fusion into industrial use. Those preceding decades were defined by technological possibility; the current phase is defined by institutional filtering, the slow sorting process that determines which suppliers can support aerospace, […]
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Machines are growing. That much is clear from EOS, the German additive manufacturing company that has spent more than three decades pushing metal powder-bed fusion into industrial use. Those preceding decades were defined by technological possibility; the current phase is defined by institutional filtering, the slow sorting process that determines which suppliers can support aerospace, medical, and defence programmes measured in decades rather than quarters.
Chief executive Marie Langer points to the M4 Onyx as evidence of a deliberate push toward larger build volumes and higher throughput, but she is equally focused on what sits above the hardware layer.
“Additive is a digital manufacturing system,” Langer said. “Having a focus on the right software offerings will be really important go