State of the Art and Trends in Additive Manufacturing Technology

Abstract

This paper describes the trend of the state-of-the-art Additive Manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing is widely recognized as new manufacturing technology, and researches as limited production with a wide variety, especially complicated-shaped parts and manufacturing of a difficult-to-cut material have been done actively. This paper explains the status of the Additive Manufacturing first. At resin system Additive Manufacturing, two-photon absorption type additive manufacturing equipment is beginning to be actively used by research of a micro domain. In consumer appliances, Material extrusion type additive manufacturing equipment is developed actively. Overseas, AM master course in higher education has also been started. Finally, some tasks and the future outlook which Additive Manufacturing holds are described.