The AMGTA has launched an unbiased report establishing how additive manufacturing must be evaluated, communicated, and deployed throughout half, system, and enterprise ranges.
Additive Manufacturing in Useful resource-Environment friendly Manufacturing Methods is alleged to supply a structural argument for evaluating AM the place its most vital benefits in useful resource effectivity, provide chain resilience, and capital allocation ‘truly materialise.’
It attracts on six years of sustained commentary throughout either side of the AM ecosystem — expertise builders and manufacturing customers — producing findings that neither aspect might attain from its personal place. The AMGTA says it’s designed to be used in investor shows, coverage discussions, procurement conversations, and organisational decision-making.
The report was introduced to and mentioned with AMGTA’s world membership on the 2026 Annual Member Summit, held April 13 in Boston, alongside the companion Technique 2030 doc.
Customary value comparisons of additive manufacturing in opposition to standard manufacturing seize the identical direct manufacturing prices on either side whereas systematically excluding prices that standard manufacturing embeds as invisible background — tooling capital dedicated earlier than demand is thought, stock carrying prices, minimal order amount waste, and obsolescence write-offs. The result’s a structural bias that makes AM seem dearer than a whole analysis would present, AMGTA suggests.
The report identifies this as a framing and measurement drawback, not a expertise drawback, and supplies the evaluative construction organisations must conduct full comparisons throughout all three ranges at which AM creates worth.
“The expertise is confirmed. However the present adoption curve doesn’t replicate it and one main motive is that the business has been evaluating AM in opposition to an ordinary that was by no means designed to seize what AM truly modifications,” mentioned Sherri Monroe, Govt Director of AMGTA. “This report is the results of six years of watching that hole play out throughout industries, purposes, and geographies. It’s the argument the business has wanted and that solely an organisation with no industrial curiosity might make.”
“After I based AMGTA, the aim was to create one thing the business didn’t have: an unbiased, non-commercial voice that might make the case for AM’s worth within the rooms the place the true selections get made,” mentioned Brian Neff, Chair of the AMGTA Board of Administrators. “This report is that voice. It makes the argument we’ve been constructing towards – full, rigorous, and designed to carry up underneath scrutiny from finance, procurement, and coverage. That is what six years of membership made doable.”
The report is on the market at www.AMGTA.org. The companion Technique 2030 doc – What We Do and Why Membership Issues – is on the market to AMGTA members.