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MIT launches ADAPT; A consortium dedicated to additive manufacturing
The American research institute MIT announced the creation of a consortium dedicated to additive manufacturing called ADAPT (for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies). The goal of this business association is to identify visionary research, scalable education pla
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The American research institute MIT announced the creation of a consortium dedicated to additive manufacturing called ADAPT (for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies). The goal of this business association is to identify visionary research, scalable education platforms and exploitable strategic perspectives based on a strong university-industry ecosystem.
Additive manufacturing has become a key method for many actors, whether in the field of education or in industry as a whole. Initiatives are multiplying to promote its use, through the organisation of consortia – as Microsoft had launched three years earlier – but also through numerous school and university courses. The goal is simple: to democratise the use of 3D technologies to propose more efficient manufacturing methods in terms of costs and time. ADAPT’s goal is to create a community of key strategic players in the additive manufacturing market, with the goal of leveraging unique resources to develop industry-specific projects and research.
MIT will be the seat of this new consortium
ADAPT; a community between academia and industry
Among the companies that founded this consortium are some big names in the industry such as Autodesk, Renishaw, EOS, Formlabs and Mimaki. We also have large industrial groups like General Motors and Volkswagen involved. Their contributions will be used to fund research projects on various additive manufacturing technologies and to conduct strategic analyses of current and future technology capabilities.
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