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CONTENTS
Fall 2017 Vol. 2, No. 4
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COVER STORY
14 Educated AM Customers
Are the Best Customers
The staff at Concurrent Technologies Corporation’s young and growing additive-manufacturing (AM) operations focuses on developing engineered AM solutions for customers, but only after teaching them how to specify, design and purchase 3D metal-printed parts.
FEATURES
18 Additive Pavilion Debuts at FABTECH
Mark your calendar for November 6-9 in Chicago.
26 TCTShowTakeaways
The 2017 edition of this 3D-printing event, held annually in Birmingham, United Kingdom, had plenty to offer for fans of metal additive manufacturing.
COMMENTARIES
4 Editorial
Hybrid Metal-AM Technology on the Move
Brad Kuvin
30 Grimm’s 3D Metal Printing Tales
Conversation with 3T RPD Ltd
Todd Grimm
36 BackTalk
FAA Initiative Shows that Aerospace Is Flying High
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Louis A. Kren
DEPARTMENTS
6 Industry News
8 Tech Update
12 Materials
34 Additive Manufacturing Q&A
35 Ad Index
About the Cover
Applied-R&D organization Concurrent Technolo- gies Corp. (CTC), Johnstown, PA, with a solid team of AM specialists along with its hundreds of engineers and scientists with expertise in design, rapid prototyping, joining, machining and more, does much more than just make parts. Its goal is to support its AM customers in their efforts to make smart, informed AM-business decisions. Beginning on page 14, 3DMP gives you a tour and offers insight on how CTC meets that goal.
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