Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace and Defense

Advanced flight platforms are placing pressure on aerospace companies to adopt rapid manufacturing technologies that accelerate the supply chain and encourage innovation at every level, including product development, inspection and MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul). At the same time, there’s a growing need to lower fuel costs and efficiently replace legacy parts for aging fleets.

Aerospace and defense customers leverage 3D Systems’ industry-leading solutions and expertise to deliver unprecedented productivity in areas such as increasing speed and reliability of quality assurance and validation processes, lowering fuel costs through lightweighting and parts consolidation, and increasing manufacturing productivity through innovative 3D printed casting patterns, 3D data recovery, injection-mold design, and direct metal printing of airworthy parts.