Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is the process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually by melting powder material layer upon layer. Melting in vacuum by a computer controlled scanning electron beam is very advantageous. Electron beam direct manufacturing (DM) is the first commercially available, large-scale, fully programmable means of achieving near net shape parts.
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