High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Price benchmark of laser sintering service providers
M. Baldinger & A. Duchi
BWI, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
ABSTRACT: Additive manufacturing is not only used for rapid prototyping in product development but
increasingly for rapid manufacturing – meaning for production of final parts. Besides limitations around mate-
rials, quality and standards, cost is one of the major barriers to more widespread adoption. Due to the high
investment for rapid manufacturing equipment and lack of knowledge, many companies choose to buy instead
of make additively manufactured parts. Despite the importance of cost, there is limited insight into the price
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