Additive Techniques Come to Low-Volume Manufacturing.

The article discusses additive manufacturing (AM), a type of low volume manufacturing that is used to make products like dental implants. The advantages of AM include design changes that can occur during the manufacturing process, products that can be built on demand, and changes to the product that can occur post production. AM is different from 3D model and prototype printing because of the way the parts are used and the number of parts that are produced.