At the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) conference in Chicago last month, a lunchtime conversation summed up the state of additive manufacturing/3D printing technology, and many other technologies. A large supplier to the aerospace industry was voicing a minor complaint about his company’s 3D printers to a representative from a competing 3D printer company. That representative, as you might expect, said his company’s 3D printers did not suffer from that particular malady. “Where were you five years ago when we did all this?” asked the aerospace supplier. “We weren’t a company yet,” replied the 3D printer manufacturer. It was a…
More than 2,200 people gathered in the Hilton Chicago March 31-April 4 to learn from one another, check out the latest technologies and network at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) 2019 conference. Like the 3D printing/additive manufacturing sector itself, the AMUG conference continues to grow. Now in its 31st year, the volunteer team of conference organizers say this was the largest conference yet. AMUG Advisor Todd Grimm enters the Twilight Zone at AMUG 2019. “You are in an alternate reality right now, at this minute, and you're poised to be in a very significantly different alternate reality,” Todd Grimm,…
