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To contact or learn more about our members, view our members’ information. You can contact our members through their websites.
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For general inquires, contact Dr. Dean Bartles, MTDG
The Consortium
Leading Minds is a collaborative, additive manufacturing consortium of global additive manufacturing leaders created at Formnext 2024. It is focused exclusively on accelerating industrial adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) for multiple industries.
The consortium is not a lobbying organization, not a standards body, and not a marketing alliance.
As a strategic leadership coalition, Leading minds works to increase initiatives and access to resources that remove AM adoption barriers for manufacturers.
Our Primary Mission
Move additive manufacturing from isolated success stories to mainstream industrial production.
Educate Manufacturers
Simplify Communication
Reduce Adoption Risk
Help Companies Understand Where AM Creates Value
Make Industrial Deployment Repeatable
America Makes
Advancing the Technology. Growing the Workforce. Expanding the Industrial Base.
America Makes is the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing technology and education. Our members from industry, academia, government, and workforce and economic development organizations work together to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing and the nation’s global manufacturing competitiveness.
AM I Navigator
The Manual for Industrial Additive Manufacturing Framework
The AM I Navigator is a comprehensive and widely recognized maturity model that outlines the key stages of industrialized Additive Manufacturing (AM). It offers companies a structured and proven framework to successfully implement their AM strategies by applying targeted measures aligned with each stage of maturity.
