Welding Journal

Over the past two decades, metal additive manufacturing (AM) has matured significantly while becoming more cost effective. Improvements in equipment design, robotics, controls, and automation have greatly enhanced the scale, quality, and consistency of AM equipment. Today, AM technologies are being adopted in a range of industries, including defense, space, energy, oil and gas, marine, transportation, and medical. Wire-fed directed energy deposition (DED) processes may offer relatively lower cost and higher product..