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By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the topic, which was published in February 2025. Since then, AM use cases in data centers have steadily increased, reinforcing that it’s a topic the industry has to pay attention to.
One of the companies covered in the AM Research report is Schneider Electric, the French energy technology giant. While Schneider may not be one of the companies that regularly pops up in conversations about AM, the multinational is a longtime AM user and a big proponent of smart manufacturing processes.
Along those lines, Schneider’s recent major acquisition of PTC, the Boston-based industrial hardware firm, has significant imp