The Pittsburgh Airport Innovation Campus: Condensing and connecting the Additive Manufacturing supply chain
Additive Manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies akin to carving objects from a block. AM is actually a suite of processes that can be used to print metals, polymers, ceramics and biomaterials, and enables lightweight designs, material usage reductions, cost reductions, lead time reductions, part count reductions, performance improvements and more.
Neighborhood 91 is the world’s first end-to-end additive manufacturing production campus; the first development to both condense and connect all elements of the AM/3D printing supply chain into one streamlined production ecosystem.