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• During the last few weeks, I spent time on the ground at both the Additive Manufacturing Strategies Forum (AMS) and the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) meeting. What stands out...
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During the last few weeks, I spent time on the ground at both the Additive Manufacturing Strategies Forum (AMS) and the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) meeting.
What stands out is not just how different these gatherings are, but how clearly they reflect two necessary halves of the same industry. The contrast is not superficial. It is structural, revealing where additive manufacturing is aligning and where it is still working through friction.
In New York, the energy at AMS is deliberate and tightly framed. Conversations tend to begin with markets and end with outcomes. Capital efficiency, application focus, and pathways to profitability are recurring threads, but what felt different this year was the level of discipline in those conversations. For example, a panel of OEM execut