Back in May, I penned a bit of a rant in the article titled “ Word of the Day ”. The crux of that story was that players in AM have liberally adopted the term “industrial” to describe their printers. It is now so commonplace that industrial has become a meaningless adjective used for printers of all levels.

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The moral of that article was that each reader needs to decide for themselves what constitutes industrial-grade and then investigate to see if a printer measures up. Well, I am now living through this dilemma of defining industrial. After hours of deliberation and contemplation, I have not arrived at a suitable definition. The reason I am now enveloped by this quandary is that I am involved with the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) . Every year, AMUG hosts a conference for additive manufacturing (AM) users. Conference attendance is limited to those […]

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