Metal 3D printing via laser powder bed fusion is an expensive process, one which leaves little room for failure in postprocessing steps. Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing (KAM) knows this perhaps a little too well — one sealing groove on a turbo pump assembly proved complicated enough to consist of 30% of the part’s CAM programming tree and required multiple operations with high tool wear, but the high costs of failure discouraged experimentation…
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