Will 3-D Printing Cause Traditional Manufacturing to Collapse?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 14, 2014
Through the Industrial Research Institute ’s foresights study — IRI2038 — several plausible scenarios of the future of R&D were explored. In one scenario, traditional manufacturing collapses under the strain placed on it by 3-D printing and heightened speed-to-market practices and is largely replaced by local manufacturing networks.
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