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AM3D 2016 Chair’s Welcome

It’s been another great year for additive manufacturing (AM), and we are excited to bring you a vibrant and
industry-relevant set of speakers along with a great lineup of practice-oriented workshops for this year’s
ASME Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing (AM3D) Conference & Expo.

The speakers this year are absolutely top-notch from companies that are helping advance the “engineering
behind AM.” Pratt & Whitney, NAVAIR, Stryker, Caterpillar, and many others will share their newest insights,
applications, and opportunities for AM in the aerospace, defense, medical, and heavy equipment indus-
tries. We have also lined up a great panel of experts to discuss AM applications across the Department of
Defense as well as highlight some of the latest research going on in the Navy as they move to put 3D
printers on ships to support seafaring operations. Meanwhile, Autodesk, Dassualt, PTC, Siemens, and
several start-ups (e.g., nTopology, OnShape, 3DSim, SciArt) will share the latest technologies for design,
optimization, modeling, and simulation capabilities of AM. Finally, we are excited to have DMG Mori Seki as
well as leading researchers share the latest thinking on hybrid manufacturing technologies that combine
both additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing to make end-use parts.

We book-end the conference with discussions on the legal and economic implications of AM, thanks to
speakers from Orrick, Herrington & Sutfcliff, LLP, and Deloitte, respectively. On the materials side, we will
hear from Granta as well as leading researchers in the field that will share a new road map on the Next
Generation of Additive Manufacturing Materials. Finally, NIST and America Makes will provide updates on
standards and education and training activities in AM that will impact everyone in the industry. America
Makes will also share their Educational Roadmap with participants, asking for feedback on the training and
certification needs and gaps that they are facing in their industry.

Finally, as if the list of speakers was not enough, we are pleased to offer several practice-oriented AM
workshops on Sunday before the conference kicks off. In the morning, AM3D participants can choose from
learning about Design for Additive Manufacturing from experts at 3D Systems or learning the latest in
model-based design and engineering from MBD360, a new start-up dedicated to advancing AM and digital
manufacturing. In the afternoon, participants can either learn about the latest in AM simulation tools from
Simulia, part of Dassault Systems, or participate in a topology optimization workshop run by leading
academic experts and two promising design start-ups: Onshape and SciArt. Participants will not only
design a novel structure using the latest topology optimization software, but also evaluate its performance
after 3D Systems prints the results and brings them back to the conference on Wednesday morning.
None of this would have happened without the great team of volunteers and staff that helped make this
year’s AM3D possible. I am sincerely grateful for the help and support of Erin Dolan, Israr Kabir and Mary
Jakubowski from ASME as well as David Rosen (Georgia Tech), Krishnan Suresh (University of Wisconsin–
Madison), Amit Bachi (Naval Research Laboratory), Marriner Merrill (U.S. Navy), Paul Witherell (NIST), Adam
Clark (Tangible Solutions), and Tuan TranPham (Arcam). If you see them, make sure to stop and thank them
for sharing their networks and helping create a great conference and expo.
We are excited that you could join us and hope everyone walks away from this year’s conference with at Timothy W. Simpson
least one piece of useful information or insight to take back and put into practice at their company. Chair, AM3D Executive Advisory
I know I certainly will! Committee, Pennsylvania State
University

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