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AM is a versatile technology. Today, it has become the central building block of future hybrid manufacturing. The additive manufactured components are efficiently used in aerospace, automobile and biomedical industries.

 – Today, Industry 4.0 is progressing towards smart manufacturing methodologies where AM has emerged as popular and globally disruptive for the engineering industry.

 – When compared to other industries, aerospace is the vibrant area that demands higher volume production of lightweight multifaceted components with high strength and long-term durability.

 – The aerospace industry has been prospering in additively manufacturing spacecraft components with multi-functioning capability of complex user-defined geometries in minimal weight.

 – The main advantage of AM is that it reduces the wastage of materials as well as fabrication time and provides high quality components. The overall weight of an aircraft reduces fuel consumption.

 – AM acts as a dynamic and feasible technology with no boundaries for manufacturing modern machineries, especially in aerospace, for developing new components and modifying the existing geometries to generate newly designed aircraft structures.