siliconindia | | March 20198By Guruprasad Rao, Director & Mentor, Imaginarium IndiaGuruprasad Rao holds a PhD in Product design from IIT Bombay and has over 30 years of experience in industrial & product design, innovation, design thinking & engineering and many more.S ince the dawn of civilization, mankind has come a long way to adapt to nature. Unlike animals, hu-mans have modified the nature to suit their needs. The process is continuous and ongoing. For the past 100 years or so, the change is rather rap-id due to the scale. This was the result of manufacturing revolution, which made making anything in millions, a pos-sibility. Today, we are at the crossroads of manufacturing space. We have handicrafts to digital sculpting on one road and conventional machine tools to digital tools of cyber physical systems on the other. 3D printing was born at this very intersection. The immediate trigger was to make quick in my opinionMANUFACTURING AT CROSSROADS: 3D PRINTING END USER PARTS
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