From October 12-14, additive manufacturing (AM) professionals and those interested in adopting this technology gathered at the Additive Manufacturing Conference + Expo held this year in Cincinnati, Ohio. Attendance was lower than typical for this event, but the quality of the program speakers, exhibitors and attendees shone through. During a day and a half of sessions, speakers covered everything from 3D printed tooling to reshoring manufacturing to how teams of people — not just technology — need to change for successful AM adoption. Peter Zelinski, Julia Hider and Stephanie Hendrixson discuss the themes and ideas that emerged.

This episode of the AM Radio podcast is brought to you by PTXPO. 

Related to this episode:

• Additive Manufacturing Conference
• Dustless Technologies, a company that adopted polymer AM to reshore its manufacturing
• M. Holland, plastic resin distributor
• EOS
• Dimensional Innovations, creators of the Raiders torch
• Inside the additive manufacturing and design master’s program at Penn State University
• Women in 3D Printing
• The Cool Parts Showcase
• Verdin Bell’s use of the Cincinnati Inc. BAAM for bell patterns 
• Vertex Manufacturing, new business founded by Greg Morris
• Siemens
• Plus MFG, creator of COSMO (cost over specific modulus) tool for evaluating metal manufacturing methods