As the Ernst & Young (EY) Global Printing Report 2019 shows, the use of additive manufacturing has skyrocketed from 24 % in 2016 to 65 % in 2019 within the past three years. Furthermore, around every second company wants to produce end products generatively in the next three years. In order to achieve this, more and more companies are considering how they can use additive manufacturing processes not only for prototypes, but also for contract manufacturing through to mass production of series parts.
