Whether it’s going to market quicker than your competitors, decreasing your manufacturing costs with new technologies or delivering a product far superior than what’s available on the market, a competitive edge is what it takes to win.

And for the aerospace and defense industry, that edge is additive manufacturing .

Don’t get me wrong. The aerospace and defense sector has been leveraging 3D printing for many years. In fact, the market is expected to grow by more than 23 percent to reach $4.76 billion by 2023, according to MarketsandMarkets . So far, the growth and upcoming expectations have been so transformational that 70 percent of respondents say 3D printing has changed the way the industry thinks and operates in Jabil’s Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Trends survey. Download the full survey report. Perhaps unsurprisingly, nearly three-fourths […]

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